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	Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests
	Lawton R.O.; Nair U.S.; Pielke R.A. Sr.; Welch R.M.
发表日期	2001
ISSN	0036-8075
起始页码	584
结束页码	587
卷号	294 期号:5542
英文摘要	Tropical montane cloud forests (TMCFs) depend on predictable, frequent, and prolonged immersion in cloud. Clearing upwind lowland forest alters surface energy budgets in ways that influence dry season cloud fields and thus the TMCF environment. Landsat and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite imagery show that deforested areas of Costa Rica's Caribbean lowlands remain relatively cloud-free when forested regions have well-developed dry season cumulus cloud fields. Further, regional atmospheric simulations show that cloud base heights are higher over pasture than over tropical forest areas under reasonable dry season conditions. These results suggest that land use in tropical lowlands has serious impacts on ecosystems in adjacent mountains.
英文关键词	Atmospherics; Climatology; Clouds; Computer simulation; Ecosystems; Environmental impact; Atmospheric simulations; Forestry; climate effect; cloud forest; deforestation; ecosystem response; montane forest; article; Caribbean Islands; climate; cloud; Costa Rica; ecosystem; forest; model; Nicaragua; priority journal; seasonal variation; tropics; Deformation; Costa Rica
语种	英语
来源期刊	Science
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/244471
作者单位	Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Lawton R.O.,Nair U.S.,Pielke R.A. Sr.,et al. Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests[J],2001,294(5542).
APA	Lawton R.O.,Nair U.S.,Pielke R.A. Sr.,&Welch R.M..(2001).Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests.Science,294(5542).
MLA	Lawton R.O.,et al."Climatic impact of tropical lowland deforestation on nearby montane cloud forests".Science 294.5542(2001).