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Slide 3: A view of the Afro-Montane Forest on the lower slopes of Mikeno Volcano aproximately 1600 meters above sea-level. This is just a few miles farther upslope on the same road shown in the previous slide. The savanna-bush, grasslands and woodland formations have been left behind and one now enters the humid Afro-Montane forest. In this altitudinal belt the dry season is much shorter and precipitation considerably higher due to orographic lift. As a result plants are more Mesophytic (humid-zone plants). Note the larger trees and more fully developed multi-layered structure to the forest. Many of the trees are tropical broadleaf species. Credit: Courtesy Robert E. Ford, Westminster College of Salt Lake City. |
