Useful plants within a campesino community in a Costa Rican Montane Cloud Forest
An ethnobotanical survey was carried out in a campesino community (San Gerardo de Dota) in a Costa Rican montane cloud forest. Families were asked how they used indigenous and introduced vascular plants along an altitude gradient of 2000 to 3000 m
recorded during the 1960s and 1970s. The droughts are discussed in the context of the Puerto Rican setting, an island in the humid tropics with short, high gradient streams, small watersheds and reservoirs, and where, during the past 40 years, population