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Distribution and Conservation of Peru’s Montane Forests: Interactions Between the Biota and Human Society

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Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

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The design and implementation of conservation plans for the humid montane forests (including tropical montane cloud forests—TMCFs) of Peru require information about the physical and social parameters that result in or limit the distribution, physiognomy, species composition, and diversity of those forests. Obvious physical factors include the extent and connectivity of the elevational zones where these forests are found, climatic regimes, and edaphic limitations. These in turn set the stage for ecological and evolutionary processes that influence the types of species present (e.g., whether or not there are endemics, habitat specialists, or organisms with poor dispersal abilities). Human population densities and trends (e.g., population increase, immigration/ emmigration) have strong, but not necessarily simple, relations to the degradation of natural resources (Harrison 1991). The current living standards and future aspirations of people provide a context for making predictions. Change, however, can only be induced by first recognizing the social actors (or “stakeholders”) most directly involved in natural resource degradation or conservation (Garcia-Guadilla 1992).

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    Lawrence S. Hamilton

  2. Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Hilo, 96720, Hilo, HI, USA

    James O. Juvik

  3. International Institute of Tropical Forestry, USDA Forest Service, 00928, Río Piedras, PR, USA

    F. N. Scatena

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Young, K.R., León, B. (1995). Distribution and Conservation of Peru’s Montane Forests: Interactions Between the Biota and Human Society. In: Hamilton, L.S., Juvik, J.O., Scatena, F.N. (eds) Tropical Montane Cloud Forests. Ecological Studies, vol 110. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2500-3_27

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