The Environment of Ancient Cloud Forests in the Mexican Pacific

Two ancient cloud forests in the Mexican Pacific were reconstructed to reveal signals of past ecosystem responses to climate anomalies during the Late Holocene, Little Ice Age (~AD 1350–1850) and Medieval Climate Anomaly (~AD 800–1350). Applying palaeoecological techniques, two organic sediment cores were extracted from forest hollows: one from the cloud forest of the Acer Forest State Park (AFSP) and one from the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere Reserve (SMBR), both in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.