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cloud forest
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rainforest occuring at higher elevations and topographic positions, often characterized by fog
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It sits within the topics Habitats, Montane forests and Subtropical rainforests.
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Tree ferns in a cloud forest on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo Stratus silvagenitus clouds in Uva Province, Sri Lanka
A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest, is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally described in the International Cloud Atlas (2017) as silvagenitus. Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and vegetation, in which case they are also referred to as mossy forests. Mossy forests usually develop on the saddles of mountains, where moisture introduced by settling clouds is more effectively retained.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cloud forest” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.