Browse through the natural world from Rainforests to Deserts. Find out facts about animals from Komodo dragons to butterflies, from graceful dolphins to huge dinosaurs. All text and graphics are copyrighted by REMedia, or by third parties who are acknowledged within this web site. Montane forests are sometimes given the name 'cloud' forest because they are constantly shrouded in mist. Rainfall increases and temperature decreases at these higher elevations.
Trees become shorter and grow crooked rather than upright, and their leaves are smaller.
Tropical species give way to those found more commonly in temperature forests such as oak, beech and conifer.