Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This dataset shows the location of tropical montane cloud forest sites as recorded in a worldwide inventory compiled by UNEP-WCMC and published in "A Global Directory of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests", Aldrich et al., 1997. This inventory was compiled from literature searches and correspondence with regional experts, and contains a total of 529 sites. The central location for each site is recorded but does not identify the great variability in their sizes, which range from 50 hectares to hundreds of square kilometres.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Copyright Text: Aldrich, M., Billington, C., Edwards, M., Laidlaw, R. (1997). Locations of tropical montane cloud forest sites as recorded in a worldwide inventory in "A Global Directory of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests". Cambridge (UK): UNEP-WCMC.