This page summarizes some of the field research that is currently being conducted in the cloud forests of Central America.  Additional information on these and other cloud forest research projects will be added over time.

• Effects of climate change on local amphibian and reptile populations (Alan Pounds)
• The role of canopy plants in nutrient cycling (Nalini Nadkarni)
• Factors influencing rate of forest regeneration in abandoned cattle pastures (Greg Murray and Kathy Winnett-Murray)
• Effects of climate change on local bat populations (Richard LaVal)
• Colonization rates of epiphytes on cloud forest trees (Nalini Nadkarni)
• Chemical defenses of cloud forest tree and shrub seeds (Greg Murray and Kathy Winnett-Murray)
• Migratory patterns, population locations and sizes, and the possible impact of climate change on Three-wattled Bellbird populations (Debra DeRosier and George Powell)
• Search for cloud forest plants which may yield useful medical or commercial chemicals (bioprospecting) (Robert Lawton, Debra Moriarity, and William Setzer)
• Effect of climate change on cloud forest epiphytes (Nalini Nadkarni)
• Evolution of hemiepiphytes (plants which grow in trees but have some connection to the ground) (Robert Lawton)
• Education and courses in Costa Rica (Dr. Humberto Jiménez-Saa)