Name:
Northern Andean Montane & Upper Montane Humid Forest Macrogroup
Reference:
NatureServe Biotics 2019
Description:
Dense, evergreen, 15-25 m tall, multi-strata forests growing between about 2200 and 3800 m elevation on all versants of the Andean mountains in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and the northernmost tip of the Andes Western Cordillera in Peru, under humid to hyper-humid climate. They hold a large biomass of epiphytes. Forests in the lower belt of the range are taller and may show a high frequency of palm trees of the genus <i>Ceroxylon</i>, among other characteristic species such as <i>Hedyosmum bonplandianum, Ocotea calophylla, Brunnellia integrifolia, Ladenbergia macrocarpa, Retrophyllum rospigliosii, Billia columbiana, Clethra fagifolia</i>, and several species of <i>Oreopanax, Ilex, Persea, Cinchona, Clusia</i>, and <i>Weinmannia</i>. Forests in the upper belt tend to be shorter and have a large proportion of trees with sclerophyllous and/or small leaves. Genera common in the upper forests are <i>Polylepis, Escallonia, Hesperomeles, Weinmannia, Diplostephium, Libanothamnus, Espeletia, Gynoxis, Clethra, Ilex</i>, and <i>Miconia</i>. Species-level composition and dominance vary along their altitudinal and latitudinal distribution, and the branch of the Andes Cordillera.
Accession Code:
urn:lsid:vegbank.org:commConcept:40860-{5C332362-2D89-4AC6-8241-BDD8FD61C955}
Plot-observations of this Community Concept:
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