Tropical montane vegetation dynamics near the upper cloud belt strongly associated with a shifting ITCZ and fire

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 103; no. 4; pp. 891 - 903
• Main Authors: Crausbay, Shelley D., Martin, Patrick H., Kelly, Eugene F.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.07.2015; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: charcoal analysis; Climate change; Cordillera Central; Dominican Republic; ecotone; Evolution; Forest & brush fires; Intertropical Convergence Zone; Palaeoecology and land-use history; Pinus occidentalis; pollen analysis; shifting TWI hypothesis; Taxonomy; tropical montane cloud forest; Vegetation; Dominican Republic

1. Tropical montane forests house unusual and diverse biota and are considered highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly near the trade wind inversion (TWI) - the upper end of the cloud belt that defines tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF). The upper cloud belt has two possible futures: one...