Preview image in your
Facebook Timeline Account- Preview
- Price: 1$
- Size Facebook: 1702 x 630 px
- Size Twitter: 1500 x 500 px
- Size LinkedIn: 1128 x 191 px
More Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Cover Photos
Cover photo info
- Photo title: Lush, green foliage surrounds the numerous hiking trails in Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica.
- Author: Kimhammar
- Cover photo description:
- The Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve was established in 1972 and initially covered some 810 acres of forested land. Over 8 miles 13 km of trails are available for visitors to explore on their own or with a guide. Often taking the form of fog, clouds hover around the upper canopy of the forest before condensing onto the leaves of trees and dripping onto the plants below. Understandably, the sun has a hard time breaking through this thick veil of clouds. This causes a slower rate of evaporation and thus provides the plants with a bounty of life-giving moisture. This moisture helps to promote a huge amount of biodiversity, particularly within the type of plants known as epiphytes. These plants grow on other plants including trees non-parasitically, collecting their moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, and debris that surround them. Common examples include lichens, orchids and bromeliads, all of which are abundant in Monteverde. Cloud forests also tend to host a large number of endemic species, as their unique climates and specialized ecosystems create habitats that are not found anywhere else on Earth.
- Image ID:127851071
- Views:7
- Downloads:0
Keywords for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn timeline photos
america
backlight
backlit
biodiversity
canopy
central
cloud
color
costa
destination
digital
ecological
ecosystem
endemic
environmentalism
epiphyte
foliage
forest
green
hammar
hiking
horizontal
image
jungle
kim
landscape
limb
lined
lush
monteverde
moss
nature
nobody
numerous
outdoor
outside
path
pathway
people
plant
preserve
rain
reserve
rica
sun
sunlight
surrounds
tourist
trail
trails
travel
tree
trees
tropical
typical
walkway
wet
woodland
Similar images from Dreamstime