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Revista Peruana de Biología

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VICUNA-MINANO, Edgar E.. Las Podocarpáceas de los bosques montanos del noroccidente peruano. Rev. peru biol. [online]. 2005, vol.12, n.2, pp.283-288. ISSN 1727-9933.

The montane forests of north-western Peru are plant formations with high biodiversity and numerous endemic taxa. Unfortunately, in many places, they are deteriorated by deforestation and colonization processes, to turning into one of the most threatened ecosystems of the world. At the present, montane forests are reduced to isolated fragments. The relict forests are distributed above 1000 m on the western slope of the Andes. These forests are habitat for Peruvian native coniferous of the Podocarpaceae family. These species are supporting the fragility of montane forests ecosystems, however they are being cut down in large numbers because of the excellent timber quality. There are some forests largely dominated by Podocarpaceae in north-western Peru, we have the Cachil forest (Cajamarca, Province Contumazá) and Tongod-Quellahorco (Cajamarca, Province San Miguel) which are dominated by Podocarpus oleifolius. The San Ignacio forests (Cajamarca, Province San Ignacio) where we find half the species known from Peru, there are five species from three genera: Podocarpus oleifolius, P. macrostachys, P. sprucei, Prumnopitys harmsiana and Nageia rospigliosii.

Palabras clave : Podocarpus; Podocarpaceae; Montane Forests; Nageia; North-western Peru.

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