In the Cordillera Blanca, trees of the genus Polylepis can survive at 4500 m asl. or even higher. Whereas native forests have been almost completely converted to farmland or replaced by Eucalyptus stands at lower elevation, some patches of Polylepis forest remain in the high valleys protected through the Huascarán National Park.
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- on Friday 8 July 2022 by Martin Mergili
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- cultural landscape, high-mountain ecosystems, mountainscape, non-tropical montane forest, plant, puna, Zonobiome II
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