As part of CloudNet’s goal to increase synthesis of existing research across TCMFs, we organized and published a special issue on broad and contemporaneous ecological topics and themes in TMCFs. These themes were selected and outlined at a CloudNet meeting in Pingree Park, Colorado in October 2013. This special issue was fully published in 2016 and edited by P.H. Martin and B.J. Bellingham.

This special issue can also be accessed directly from the Journal of Tropical Ecology. 

CONTENTS

Martin, P.H. and P.J. Bellingham. 2016. Towards integrated ecological research in tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:345–354.  PDF

 Fahey, T.J., R.E. Sherman, and E.V.J. Tanner. 2016. Tropical montane cloud forest: environmental drivers of vegetation structure and ecosystem function. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:355–367.  PDF

 Dalling, J.W., K. Heineman, G. González, and R. Ostertag. 2016 Geographic, environmental and biotic sources of variation in the nutrient relations of tropical montane forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:368–383.  PDF

 Crausbay, S.D. and P.H. Martin. 2016. Natural disturbance, vegetation patterns and ecological dynamics in tropical montane forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:384–403.  PDF

Gotsch, S.G., H. Asbjornsen, and G.R. Goldsmith. 2016. Plant carbon and water fluxes in tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:404–420.  PDF

 Willig, M.R. and S.J. Presley. 2016. Biodiversity and metacommunity structure of animals along altitudinal gradients in tropical montane forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:421–436.  PDF

Chapman, H., N.J. Cordeiro, P. Dutton, D. Wenny, S. Kitamura, B. Kaplin, F.P.L. Melo, and M.J. Lawes. 2016. Seed-dispersal ecology of tropical montane forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:437–454.  PDF

 Gotsch, S.G., N. Nadkarni, and A. Amici. 2016. The functional roles of epiphytes and arboreal soils in tropical montane cloud forests. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32:455–468.  PDF