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Lowland tree loss threatens cloud forests

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

Changes in regional climate brought about by large-scale deforestation in the

The cloud banks that enshroud the Monteverde cloud forests may be rising due to deforestation upwind, in the eastern Costa Rican lowlands. Lawton

eastern lowlands of Central America are affecting weather downwind in the

mountains, imperiling ecosystems there.