Below that, Montane forests grow.
Domenech i Montaner was the man for the job.
As Montaner, also other music stars like Panty
Cantu have spoken about it.
Cape buffaloes are found in the Montane forest and occasionally in the moorland and grassland.
Open Montane forests, alder thickets,
willows and mountain meadows are used by the bird as breeding grounds.
Tropical Montane forests occur at higher elevations
and are interspersed with Montane grasslands, forming the shola-grassland complex.
Most frogs and toads prefer moist environments such as lowland tropical rainforests or
cool Montane forests and grasslands.
Cool and warm temperate rainforest, wet open forest, Montane forests and woodlands are the dominant vegetation communities.
The trees of Montane rain forests grow to a height 10-15 meters,
shorter than the lowland rain forest trees.
Okapis prefer altitudes of 500 to 1,000 m,
but may venture above 1,000 m in the eastern Montane rainforests.
They occurred in the
dry zone, in the lowland wet zone as well as in the cold damp Montane forests.
The word is used widely by the locals to describe ecoregion of Montane rainforests, and translates as“warm valley” in English.
In 2005, the park was expanded to include the entire Montane forest, which had been part of the Kilimanjaro Forest Reserve.
While carrying out a biodiversity study, a Mexican-Italian research team
discovered three new dung beetle species in Montane forests disturbed by livestock grazing.
Some of them are indeed pioneers from the hot, dusty and humid plains of North India,
to the cooler zones of the Montane forests.
The mountain gorilla inhabits the Albertine Rift Montane cloud forests of the Virunga Volcanoes,
ranging in altitude from 2,200 to 4,300 metres 7,200 to 14,100 ft.
The most important ornithological site in Rwanda, Nyungwe forest harbors almost 300 bird
species of which two dozen are restricted to a handful of Montane forests on the Albertine Rift.
Forests sometimes contain many tree species within a small area(as in tropical rain and temperate deciduous forests), or relatively few species over large areas e.g.,
taiga and arid Montane coniferous forests.