The Dominican Republic is an island located between parallels 17-19ºN, and forms part of the Greater Antilles. The primary aim of this work is to determine the forest vegetation (cloud forest) of areas with high rainfall in the Dominican Republic, and their floristic diversity and state of conservation. Four types of forest are recognised in the territories studied, of which two have a predominance of Prestoea montana (Grah.) Nichol, and another two a predominance of the endemic trees Magnolia hamorii Howard and Magnolia pallescens Urb. & Ekm. These plant associations contain 75 trees, 4 columnar trees, 63 shrubs, 28 creepers, 43 herbs and 36 epiphytes, and have a total of 244 species.
DIVERSITY AND STATE OF CONSERVATION OF THE CLOUD FOREST IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Musarella CM;
2016-01-01
Abstract
The Dominican Republic is an island located between parallels 17-19ºN, and forms part of the Greater Antilles. The primary aim of this work is to determine the forest vegetation (cloud forest) of areas with high rainfall in the Dominican Republic, and their floristic diversity and state of conservation. Four types of forest are recognised in the territories studied, of which two have a predominance of Prestoea montana (Grah.) Nichol, and another two a predominance of the endemic trees Magnolia hamorii Howard and Magnolia pallescens Urb. & Ekm. These plant associations contain 75 trees, 4 columnar trees, 63 shrubs, 28 creepers, 43 herbs and 36 epiphytes, and have a total of 244 species.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
