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The following slides supplement the forest readings by Bates and Carr.

The following slides supplement the forest readings by Bates and Carr. I have included images from Mexico and Central America to show you what Bates and Carr describe. I also use some of the terms(in italics) that they employ in their descriptions.

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The following slides supplement the forest readings by Bates and Carr.

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  1. The following slides supplement the forest readings by Bates and Carr. I have included images from Mexico and Central America to show you what Bates and Carr describe. I also use some of the terms(in italics) that they employ in their descriptions.

  2. Only along the river will you find jungle. Notice that the forest floor is not open. That’s because along the river light penetrates to the floor and allows vegetative growth. “Balsa”: Actually a made out of the buoyant trunks of several balsa trees Rio Wampu in La Mosquitia in eastern Honduras .

  3. Rio Patuca in Honduran La Mosquitia. “Pipante” is a local term for “dug-out canoe”. This pipante is made out of “caoba” (Mahogany) which is a tropical rainforest (broadleaf evergreen) tree species. “Gringo”: non-native species of mammal

  4. Several gringos in a pipante on the Rio Patuca. Dug-out canoes can be extremely large. That is a function of the giantism of some tropical rainforest species. Columbus reported encountering a dug-out canoe on the north coast of Honduras which held 200 people. Your instructor

  5. This diagram demonstrates how changes in elevation affect the distribution of natural vegetation and forest types. The previous few slides showed locations that are below 500m.

  6. Cloud Forest, or weeping woods The cloud layer begins at about 1800m. Tropical Dry or Tropical Deciduous Forest. The rock and cactus are on the rain shadow side of a Honduran mountain where verano is an extremely dry season.

  7. Cloud forest -1800 -1500

  8. Ocotal. This a pine forest on the rain shadow side of a Honduran mountain. Note how small and sparse the plants are. Tropical Dry Forest.

  9. Hella ocotal! This pine forest is in the highlands (>1800m) of Oaxaca, Mexico in the cloud forest. The trees are larger and more densely distributed than in the Tropical Dry Forest because at this high elevation more moisture is available for plants.

  10. 1900m San Miguel de Tiltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. Cloud forest or Montaña This settlement is at approximately 1400m. Tropical rainforest at the bottom of this slope, which is ~700m.

  11. Cloud Road

  12. Hella cloud ~2000 m in Honduras’ Western Highlands

  13. Bromeliad epiphytes

  14. Hijo Bromeliad epiphytes

  15. In this case, the cloud forest tree is dead, but still supports a large community of epiphytes.

  16. This aerial photograph shows a fragmented cloud forest area in western Honduras. Fajas de Montaña Cloud forest archipelago

  17. Inside a faja de montaña

  18. Inside a faja de montaña Mochila Notice how open the forest floor is. Why?

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