The Páramo ecosystem of Costa Rica's highlands

M Kappelle, SP Horn - Costa Rican Ecosystems, 2016 - degruyter.com
Páramo is a grass-or shrub-dominated ecosystem that occupies the cool and wet upper
slopes of tropical mountains, at alpine elevations above the timber or tree line and below the …

Fire in the páramo ecosystems of Central and South America

SP Horn, M Kappelle - Tropical fire ecology, 2009 - infona.pl
Fires periodically burn the grass and shrub-dominated párarno ecosystems found a bove
the treeline in the Andean highlands of northern South America and in the Cordillera de …

Sedimentary stable carbon isotope evidence of late Quaternary vegetation and climate change in highland Costa Rica

CS Lane, SP Horn, CI Mora, KH Orvis… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Continuous terrestrial records of paleoclimate and paleovegetation that extend to the late
Pleistocene are rare for the circum-Caribbean uplands. In this study we analyzed the bulk …

Fire in the páramo ecosystems of Central and South America

MA Cochrane, SP Horn, M Kappelle - Tropical Fire Ecology: Climate …, 2009 - Springer
Fires periodically burn the grass and shrub-dominated párarno ecosystems found a bove
the treeline in the Andean highlands of northern South America and in the Cordillera de …

Ecotourism's Role in Positive Land-use and Land-cover Change in a Costa Rican Tropical Montane Cloud Forest

JL Morrow - 2010 - etda.libraries.psu.edu
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests (TMCFs) are among the most fragile and biologically
diverse of all ecosystems on Earth. However, little is known about TMCF cover change for …