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element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h3>Overview: the four major ecosystems</h3> <p>ACG biodiversity may be conveniently partitioned into four of the five major tropical ecosystems: <strong>marine, dry forest, cloud forest and rain forest</strong> (there is no desert). However, many of ACG鈥檚 500,000+ species move back and forth among various parts of these four ecosystems, while many other species stay home.</p> <p><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="/sites/default/files/styles/standard_page_full_column/public/Screen%20Shot%202020-07-15%20at%203.57.19%20PM.png?itok=P6l4SDUl" width="610" height="444" alt="" /></p> <div class="caption">Clockwise from upper left: Cloud forest (Volc谩n Cacao), Atlantic rain forest (a drone view of Estaci贸n Botarrama), Pacific dry forest (looking toward Playa Naranjo from Sendero Los Patos), and coastal marine (waters within the Islas Murci茅lago archipelago).</div> <p><img alt="A map of ACG in Costa Rica zoned into four major ecosystems" src="/sites/default/files/images/Biodiversity/ACG%20Ecosystems.jpg" style="width: 610px; height: 458px;"></p> <p>Pale blue, marine. Yellow, dry forest. Dark blue, cloud forest. Green, rain forest. These four ecosystems have been subdivided by the science and agricultural guilds into a variety of taxonomic schemes, with the 11 of the Holdridge Life Zone system being perhaps the best known. However, this system was actually developed to aid the agroscape in planning for crop yields, so it only very approximately maps what would be revealed by truly detailed biodiversity understanding of ACG. Equally in the dark are the potential sub-surface marine groupings of habitats and ecosystems, but these will not be clarified for ACG until many years of detailed inventory have been conducted in Sector Marino.</p> <p><img alt="A map of ACG in Costa Rica zoned into the habitat-classification scheme called Holdridge Life Zones" src="/sites/default/files/images/Biodiversity/ACG%20Life%20Zones.jpg" style="width: 610px; height: 389px;"></p> <p>The largest amount of seemingly intact forest is inside the ACG cloud forests and rain forest slopes, above about 700 m elevation and in certain areas. 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