Talk:Cloud forest

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Size
The cloud forest's area for each country that has one shall be placed, or else, for each continous cloud forest even if it spans many countries... Maybe a map of where cloud forests occur, extending from where to where... Since maps of biomes do not clasify any as cloud forest (montante forests do not match teh distribution implied in this listing)Undead Herle King (talk) 09:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)Addition; (talk) 12:01, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Shouldn't the coastal redwood forest be included? Redwood depend on a persistent fog bank to survive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.41.51.22 (talk) 20:46, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

I am also wondering why the redwood forests of the northern California and Southern Oregon coastal areas are not included somewhere. The redwood is specifically adapted to capture water from fog and my understanding is that this is the major source of water for the whole ecosystem. Maybe there should be another talk category besides "Size" to discuss which forests should be included - maybe "Locations"? I don't know enough about editing in Wikipedia to do this myself.m.m (talk) 21:48, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Montane forest
I believe that Montane forest should have its own article. That could be defined as forest which depends on orographic precipitation, and would occur on the opposite sides of rain shadows. At least in some instances the ecology and conservation of these forests differ from other forests.

The Temperate cloud forests paragraph in this Cloud forest article may refer to this type in part. One could also expand the Cloud forest article to one under the Montane forest title, which would include 1. Cloud forests, 2. Temperate cloud forests, 3. Sholas and 4. Bamboo forests as special cases or paragraphs. I copy this comment on the Forest page. JMK (talk) 15:56, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

they occur in high altitudes then lowland tropical rainforests.

Lamington plateau?
The Lamington plateau in Australia does have some rainforest on it, but i'm not sure it really counts as temperate cloud forest, which is where it is listed at the moment. At about 28degrees south and 900 metres altitude the weather is never particularly cold, with only light overnight frosts in winter, and snow is extremely rare. Summer is warm or occasionally hot. I think it counts as wet subtropical. Also it's quite sunny there much of the time, which is not what springs to mind for me when i hear "cloud forest". Are there really any good secondary sources that say the Lamington plateau forests are anything other than normal sub-tropical rainforest? For Australian cloud forest, the only candidates i can think of are the Bellenden-Kerr ranges in Queensland (tropical) and some areas in western Tasmania (temperate). 198.142.19.172 (talk) 12:56, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

More info about terminology?
Instead of listing mossy forests as a variant name for a cloud forest, perhaps the introductory paragraph should simply indicate that there are multiple alternatives depending on the microclimate and local language. The differences of opinion about the usage of the term and possible variants is a major part of the article, and should be consolidated and expanded either under "distribution and climate" or in a new subheading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.51.110.77 (talk) 14:52, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

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cloud forest vs. fog forest?
if you look for an english translation of german "nebelwald" (= fog forest) you get: "cloud forest". cloud forest is defined here as "a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest". now what's the name for much lower forests that substantially live of fog, like the redwood-forests (sequoia sempervirens) of california (best layers about 300 m above sea level > []; other examples of lower 'fog forests'? there's the term "evergreen hardwood forest" used by schimper & faber, 1935)? HilmarHansWerner (talk) 20:23, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Please link Hindi translation to lost of languages in this page
The page that exists in hindi wiki https://hi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%98%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%A8 Needs to be added into list of languages available for this article 103.94.134.112 (talk) 04:13, 19 January 2024 (UTC)