#cloudforests — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cloudforests, aggregated by home.social.
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How This Dying Rainforest Is a Sign of Things to Come
https://youtube.com/watch?v=y9HlSWmDtLw
In Costa Rica’s cloud forest, a biological paradox unfolds: one of America’s wettest ecosystems is dying of thirst. Our investigation follows daring ecologists as they scale 70-foot canopies to solve this high-altitude "whodunit."
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Multi-Species Canopy Latrines in Costa Rican Cloud Forests
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72964
#HackerNews #MultiSpeciesCanopy #Latrines #CloudForests #CostaRica #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience
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Secret Lives of Costa Rica’s Hummingbirds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL0iXU4SbP0
Learn about the biology and ecology of these sparkeling jewels of the rainforest.
#HummingBirds #CostaRica #RainForests #CloudForests #Biodiversity
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Am Dienstagabend war ich im Cloud Forest der Gardens by the Bay.
Hier sind Pflanzen aus aller Welt zu finden, sie in sogenannten Wolken- und Nebelwäldern heimisch sind.
#Reise #Reisen #Reiseblog #Reisebericht #Mastotravel #Singapur #Singapore #Gardensbythebay #cloudforest #cloudforests #nebelwald
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Researchers discover seven #NewSpecies of #plants in highly threatened cloud #forests of Peruvian Andes https://phys.org/news/2024-03-species-highly-threatened-cloud-forests.html
Taxonomic and chorological novelties in Blakea (Melastomataceae: Pyxidantheae) from #Peru with a list of species for the country https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.635.1.1
"#CloudForests are especially important ecosystems because the headwaters of many rivers used for irrigation, drinking water, or other uses are found there."
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#Avocado is a wonderful fruit, but it's sad how multinational corporations and companies are wrecking #cloudforests of #Guatemala for monoculture plantations.
#deforestation #tropicalforests #biodiversity -
What #cloudforests look like from the inside... of clouds and mists. #colombia #rainforests
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A small sample of the incredible diversity of leaves in #cloudforests of #colombia
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We did some #miyawaki inspired #treeplanting for our #SteppingStoneForests schools project yesterday in #Dublin - colder than I'd have liked, but the trees had been delivered and the soil was still warm enough under the mulch. #Cloudforests.ie #mastodaoine #irishmastodon
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"Payments for the provision of water by cloud forests for hydropower could produce income for countries and bolster the case for the forests’ protection, a new report reveals.
These fog-laden forests occur on tropical mountains, with about 90% found in just 25 countries."
John Cannon reports for Mongabay.