The Veracruz montane forests are the northernmost tropical montane moist forests in North America.[2]
Flora
The forests are composed of evergreen broadleaf trees, which form a closed canopy. Epiphytes, including orchids, bromeliads, mosses, and lichens, are abundant.[3]
^ abEric Dinerstein, David Olson, et al. (2017). An Ecoregion-Based Approach to Protecting Half the Terrestrial Realm, BioScience, Volume 67, Issue 6, June 2017, Pages 534–545; Supplemental material 2 table S1b. [1]
^ abc Williams-Linera, G., Toledo-Garibaldi, M. & Hernández, C.G. How heterogeneous are the cloud forest communities in the mountains of central Veracruz, Mexico?. Plant Ecology 214, 685–701 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-013-0199-5
^ abWiken, Ed, Francisco Jiménez Nava, and Glenn Griffith. 2011. North American Terrestrial Ecoregions—Level III. Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Canada.
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