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• Cloud Forests: How Important are the Clouds?

The Monteverde cloud forest is a diverse system critical to maintaining both species diversity and the water supply for the Monteverde community during the dry season when cloud water interception by the canopy may be the major source of water. Thus, the cloud forest sustains canopy health as well as the Monteverde community. If low land deforestation is causing the cloud level to rise above the forest canopy line, what will be the consequences?

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