{"id":217,"date":"2011-03-04T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/?p=217"},"modified":"2013-12-17T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T00:38:31","slug":"immersed-in-the-clouds-interview-with-tropical-cloud-forest-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/immersed-in-the-clouds-interview-with-tropical-cloud-forest-researcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersed in the clouds: Interview with tropical cloud forest researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Fulton_080805_2756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-218\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Greg Goldsmith, tropical plant ecologist from the University of California, Berkeley\" alt=\"Greg Goldsmith, tropical plant ecologist from the University of California, Berkeley\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Fulton_080805_2756-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Fulton_080805_2756-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Fulton_080805_2756.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>There is a world within the canopy of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cloud_forest\" target=\"_blank\">tropical cloud forest<\/a> that not many people get to see. In this unique ecosystem &#8211; maintained by the exceptionally wet microclimate of cloud cover\u2014orchids, moss, lichens and other <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epiphyte\" target=\"_blank\">epiphytes<\/a> grow in every crease and pocket of the supporting tree branches. Here, hundreds of species of birds, monkeys and other mammal pollinators navigate the aerial landscape, scattering seeds along the way (see below video).<\/p>\n<p>Greg Goldsmith, tropical plant ecologist from the University of California, Berkeley, spends his days harnessed in this \u201ccanopy in the clouds\u201d\u2014the name of the interactive, educational <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canopyintheclouds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> he is currently working on with photographer Drew Fulton and cinematographer Colin Witherill. Read more in the EcoTone post.<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Drew Fulton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a world within the canopy of a tropical cloud forest that not many people get to see. In this unique ecosystem &#8211; maintained by the exceptionally wet microclimate of cloud cover\u2014orchids, moss, lichens and other epiphytes grow in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/immersed-in-the-clouds-interview-with-tropical-cloud-forest-researcher\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,175,126,178,116,177,9,129,25,130,128,127,100,69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esa.org\/fieldtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}