caa a22 4500 386380287 CHVBK 20180307112038.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0266467400003709 doi S0266467400003709 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0266467400003709 Mist and fog interception in elfin cloud forests in Colombia and Venezuela [Elektronische Daten] Fog interception and rainfall were measured during one year in three elfin cloud forests on small mountains along the Caribbean coast of South America and one in the Venezuelan Andes. (1) While rainfall increases from west to east in the small mountains along the coast, fog interception decreases. In 1985, the total annual rainfall and fog interception were 853 mm and 796 mm in the cloud forest of Serrania de Macuira, 1630 mm and 518 mm in Cerro Santa Ana and, 4461 mm and 480 mm in Cerro Copey. In the Andean forest of El Zum-bador, the 1985 rainfall was 1983 mm and the annual fog interception was only 72 mm. (2) Fog interception seems to be an important source of water to the elfin cloud forests of the small mountains which are surrounded by dry vegetation types and where the rainfall regime is highly seasonal. (3) Fog interception increases with altitude (in the same mountain), exposure (windward slopes) and leaf inclination. These variations of fog interception could partially explain the observed distribution of epiphytic flora in some of these cloud forests. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 cloud forest nationallicence Colombia nationallicence fog interception nationallicence leaf angle nationallicence mist nationallicence mountain forests nationallicence Neotropics nationallicence tropical mountains nationallicence water sources nationallicence Venezuela nationallicence Cavelier Jaime Departmento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela Goldstein Guillermo Departmento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela Journal of Tropical Ecology Cambridge University Press 5/3(1989-08), 309-322 0266-4674 5:3<309 1989 5 TRO https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400003709 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467400003709 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cavelier Jaime Departmento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Goldstein Guillermo Departmento de Biologia, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de los Andes, Merida, Venezuela NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Tropical Ecology Cambridge University Press 5/3(1989-08), 309-322 0266-4674 5:3<309 1989 5 TRO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge