This volume 5 is the last one of the joint publication of data on the Parque Los Nevados Transect, Colombian Central Cordillera. It includes principally chapters on the vegetation, maps and a final chapter that attempts to join, integrate and compare the data published in volume 1, 3, 4, and 5 of the series Studies on Tropical Andean Ecosystems, and to differentiate and characterize the zonal ecosystems of the transect area. Still in preparation is a broad study on the flora and vegetation of mosses and liverworts of the three transects through the three Cordilleras of the Northern Andes (Central, Oriental and Occidental). That study will be published in one of the next volumes of this series, that will be dedicated principally to the Cordilleras Occidental (vol. 6) and Oriental (vol. 7). We hope that the data presented here and in the other volumes of the series, will contribute to a better understanding of the Tropical Andean orobiome, and also be of benefit for conservation of its ecosystems, vegetation and biodiversity, and for a sustainable (eco-) development.weiterlesen