Head in the clouds.

One thing we're doing is carrying out extensive canopy-stripping experiments: physically removing entire communities of epiphytes from experimental trees and leaving control trees intact, and then monitoring the microclimate of the canopy, as well as the water use of the host trees. Epiphytes - these canopy-growing plants - don't have roots that go into the ground or into the trees, so they get their nutrients and water from this incoming mist and cloud and rain. Features WHEN Nalini Nadkarni first ventured into the canopy of a cloud forest, almost nothing was known about this unique ecosystem. [Extracted from the article]