Saturnispora quitensis sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from the Maquipucuna cloud forest reserve in Ecuador. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology , 2011; DOI: 10. ...

Rumours of one plant's demise turned out to have been exaggerated. Found only in a small area of Ecuador, Gasteranthus extinctus was believed extinct when it was named almost a decade after its forest ...

Full reference: Saturnispora quitensis sp. nov., a yeast species isolated from the Maquipucuna cloud forest reserve in Ecuador, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2011), DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.030759-0 About IFR ...

I’ve often fantasized about retracing the steps of such naturalists as Charles Darwin, Alexander von Humboldt and William Bartram, who saw exotic places and recorded, in detail, the plants and ...

Orchids are seducers of the plant world, seducing their pollinators, ... a new species my students and I helped field biologists discover in 2010 in the cloud forests of Ecuador's eastern Andes.

In an area of formerly lush cloud forest known as Centinela devastated by clearing, Clark spotted a tiny, 2-inch-high (5-centimeter) plant with delicate white petals and spiky, iridescent leaves ...

“Among the Andean countries, Ecuador is by far the best known as far as the fauna of butterflies in general, and cloud forest butterflies in particular.” But this butterfly was different.

On the slopes of northern Ecuador's Quijo Valley, perpetual clouds shroud the canopy of a seemingly pristine tropical forest. But the beauty of the cloud forest hides a violent, tragic history.

The cloud forest of Ecuador is like walking into a scene from a J.R.R. Tolkien book – mysterious, intriguing and plush with life.

Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new ... "We are actively looking for new yeasts with the ability to ferment plant material to produce bio-energy," said Dr Steve James from the ...

Mindo, Ecuador: An April 4 Travel article about the orchids of Ecuador’s cloud forests reported the size of El Pahuma, a private reserve, as 100 acres. The reserve is 700 acres.