Preface. - Contributors. - 1 The Puerto Rico Tropical Cloud Forest Symposium: Introduction and Workshop Synthesis. - 2 Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: Conservation Status and Management Issues. - 3 Hydrology and Biogeochemistry of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests: What Do We Really Know?. - 4 The Importance of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests for Endemic and Threatened Birds. - 5 Ecology and Conservation of the Argentine Montane Forest. - 6 The Role of GIS in Evaluating Contour-Based Limits of Cloud Forest Reserves in Honduras. - 7 Reforestation with the Native Tree Alnus acuminata: Effects on Phytodiversity and Species Richness in an Upper Montane Rain Forest Area of Colombia. - 8 The Montane Cloud Forest in Southern Brazil. - 9 Cloud Forest the Massenerhebung Effect and Ultraviolet Insolation. - 10 Some Low Elevation Fog Forests of Dry Environments: Applications to African Paleoenvironments. - 11 Relationships Between Rainfall Cloud-Water Interception and Canopy Throughfall in a Hawaiian Montane Forest. - 12 Biophysical Conditions of the Montane Cloud Forests of Mount Kinabalu Sabah Malaysia. - 13 The Importance of Tropical Montane Cloud Forest for Preserving Vertebrate Endemism in Peru: The Río Abiseo National Park as a Case Study. - 14 Cloud Forests of the Rwenzori Mountains Uganda: Research and Management Possibilities. - 15 Conservation of Cloud Forests in Maui County (Maui Molokai and Lanai) Hawaiian Islands. - 16 Montane Cloud Forest in the Tropical Pacific: Some Aspects of Their Floristics Biogeography Ecology and Conservation. - 17 The Montane Cloud Forest and Its Gradational Changes in Southeast Asia. - 18 Biological and Hydrological Values of the Mossy Forests in the Central Cordillera Mountains Philippines. - 19 Montane Cloud Forests in Micronesia: Status andFuture Management. - 20 Human Impacts on the Cloud Forests of the Upper Guayllabamba River Basin Ecuador and Suggested Management Responses. - 21 The Management of Luquillo Elfin Cloud Forest Ecosystems: Irreversible Decisions in a Nonsubstitutable Ecosystem. - 22 Lichens as Indicators of Cloud Forest in Hawaii. - 23 Cloud Forest Archipelagos: Preservation of Fragmented Montane Ecosystems in Tropical America. - 24 Endangered Species in Low Elevation Cloud Forest on Gau Island Fiji. - 25 Biogeography and Ecology of the Upper Montane Rain Forest of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). - 26 The Cloud Forest of Samoa. - 27 Distribution and Conservation of Peru's Montane Forests: Interactions Between the Biota and Human Society. Language: English