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Published online 19 October 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011025-2
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Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests
Deforestation is drying out cloud forests.
"It drips," says ecologist Robert Lawton, describing the Costa Rican cloud forest, "and it's plastered with plants of all sizes climbing over each other. Stand still for long and they're growing on you.
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