Its wild and rugged landscapes include dense rainforests where jaguars roam, a volcano that spews rivers of. Vegetation recovery after the 1976 paramo tire in chirripo national. Phytogeography of the bryophyte floras of oak forests and. The town is also an interior route to dominical and costa ricas south pacific. Costa rica is the furthest north that this tropical life zone is found. Editorial inbio, santo domingo, heredia, costa rica. Ingo holz, botanical institute and botanical garden, university of greifswald, 17487 greifswald, germany. An exploration of the most biologically diverse country on the planet, with more than 200 stunning color photographs.
From it, you can see the pacific coast, cerro chirripo and the turrialba, irazu, barva, and poas volcanoes, and not to mention the characteristic vegetation of the area, with a great variety of. The things we like to talk about 20 life zones including beaches and mangroves, lowland rainforests, cloud forests, dry deciduous forests, and paramo. A highresolution sedimentary charcoal and geochemistry. Our costa rica birding tour begins with a welcome dinner.
Horn1 skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. In march of 1976 a hiker in costa ricas remote chirripo national park fig. National park, costa rica volume 93 issue 1 jiaying wu, david f. In the strictest sense of the term, all paramo ecosystems are located. If you arrive in time, we take a walk through the landscaped hotel grounds admiring the many floral displays that attract several species of hummingbirds, and we may encounter our first neotropical birds such. Pdf overview of the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of the paramo ecosystem in the highlands of costa rica find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Understanding the magnitude and range of past hydroclimate variability in central highlands of costa rica, and its impact on high elevation ecosystems e. All of them are shrubs with fundamentally basitonic ramification, but acrotonic ramified branches. The small central american country of costa ricaless than oneeighth the size of californiaboasts the highest density of plant and animal species in the world. Comarostaphylis arbutoides grows on rocky sites forming vigorous, sometimes treelike shrubs up to 4 m height, often. Pdf overview of the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of the paramo ecosystem in the highlands of costa rica find, read and cite all. The costa rican paramo, also known as the talamanca paramo, is a natural region of.