Whole-canopy removal of epiphytes in tropical montane cloud forest and pasture trees leads to shifts in canopy microclimate.
Sybil G. Gotsch1, Robyn Dudrick1, Elenter Cubero1, Pablo Gutierrez1, Hannah Connuck2, Glory Edioma1, Luis Pillaca3, Whitney Wyche1, Todd E Dawson4, Nalini Nadkarni5, Lauren Lowman6 and Damon Vaughan1, (1)Franklin and Marshall College, Biology, Lancaster, United States, (2)Franklin and Marshall College, Biology, Lancaster, PA, United States, (3)Museo Historia Natural-San Marcos, Ecologia, Lima, Peru, (4)University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Utah, Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, UNITED STATES