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Cerro El Copey National Park
Isla Margarita and particularly "Cerro El Copey National Park" are especially important with respect to the numbers of endemic species they harbor. The island was connected to mainland until the Pleistocene. As a result, there is a predominance of typical continental bird families like Tinamidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Formicaridae and Furnaridae, which are totally absent from the Antilles. Circa 31 mammal species are found on the island, four of which (the red-tailed squirrel Sciurus granatensis nesaeus, the eastern cottontail rabbit Sylvilagus floridanus margaritae, the white-tailed dear Odocoileus virginianus margaritae, and the capuchin monkey Cebus apella margaritae) are endemic subspecies, with the main populations located inside the national park. The Margarita capuchin monkey is considered to be the country's most threatened primate species and is critically endangered. Very little is known on Margarita's reptiles and amphibians (Bisbal 2001); however, two endemic snakes (Drymarchon corais margaritae, Leptotyphlops albifrons margaritae) have been reported on the island (INPARQUES 2001).

A total of 14 mosquito species unregistered in Nueva Esparta State were collected during sampling at Cerro El Copey National Park. One of these 14 species had never been observed in Venezuela (Navarro 1998). A more thorough investigation of the park's invertebrate community is urgently needed.

Cerro El Copey's flora follows elevation gradients and follows a very similar pattern to the one observed in the Coastal Mountain Range (Huber 1999). Low to mid-sized semi-deciduous forests 10 to 25 m in height are found between 200 and 600 meters above sea level. The arboreal strata is relatively dense and you can find species like the naked Indian Bursera simaruba, Tabebuia billbergii, and the copey (Clusia major). This altitudinal range is home to two endemic species (Mikania johnstoni and Argythammia erubescen). Slash-and burn farming and other agricultural activities have had a major impact on the forest cover and plant composition.

The next altitudinal range (between 500 and 800 m) is covered by submontane evergreen forest with the canopy at an average height of 10-20 m. This is the home to such tree species as Tabebuia chrysantha, Myrcianthes compressa, Margaritaria nobilis, Eutherpe karsteniana, Chrysobalanus icaco and the endemic epiphytes Croton margaritensis and Clerodendrum margaritense.

The montane evergreen shrubs, also called dwarf humid forests, are dominant above 800 m. These forests are composed of shrubby-herbaceous vegetation up to 3 m high; major species are Clusia flava, Blakea monticola, Clidemia hirta, Macleania nitida, Rapanea guayanensis, and the terrestrial and epiphytic forms of the bromeliad Glomeropitcairnia erectiflora (Hoyos 1985).

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