1. Forest Structure and Biodiversity on a Cloud Forest Lee Margin R. O. Lawton, R. M. Welch, U. S. Nair, K. N. Rabenold & W. A. Haber

2. The local flora: >3000 vascular plant species (>700 tree spp) in 350 km 2 above 700 m (as rich as 15,000 km 2 of Amazonian lowlands, Manu, Peru)

5. Apparently extinct

8. ~1800 20x50 m plots >33,000 trees >500 tree species

9. We don’t sample second growth, swamps, ridgetops, or – most especially -- gorges

12. b a Cloud immersion frequency over Monteverde derived using: a) MODIS data for March of 2003; and b) MODIS data for March of 2003-2006.

16. Wind stress and spatial segregation in the guild of shade intolerant trees: Didymopanax pittieri (orange) Guettarda poasana (olive) Cecropia polyphlebia (teal

17. All this made possible by a host of characters: NSF, NASA, Wolf Guindon, Eladio Cruz, & the staff of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Drs. J. Putz, J. Daniels, R. Welch, U. Nair, R. Pielke, D. Ray, J. Calvo, A. Pounds, W. Haber, K. Rabenold, M. F. Lawton, and students – G. Cauthen, K. Wasmund, T. Earnhardt, T. Field, A. Petroff, P. Petroff, M. Lawton, M. Patrick, N. Lawton, S. Asefi, A. Regmi & V. S. Manoharan