mist belt

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mist belt (plural mist belts)

1. A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
   • 2008, Henry N. Houérou, Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa, →ISBN, page 52:

     In the mountains that run parallel to the SW shores of the Red Sea from S.E. Egypt to the “Horn” of Africa, Cape Gardafui (i.e. over a distance of some 2,650 km), there is a more or less continuous mist belt between 600 and 1,800 m elevation, depending on local conditions.

   • 2011, Sharon E. Nicholson, Dryland Climatology, →ISBN, page 207:

     Here the transition from the desert vegetation of the plains to the lush vegetation of the mist belts is abrupt.

   • 2012, Henry N. Le Houerou, The Grazing Land Ecosystems of the African Sahel, →ISBN, page 7:

     This mist belt extends all the way to Cape Gaddafui, further south, in Somalia, this mist belt is the exclusive habitat of Frankincense trees (Boswellia carteri and B. freeri).

   • 2012, Frank Klötzli, Gian-Reto Walther, Conference on Recent Shifts in Vegetation Boundaries of Deciduous Forests, Especially Due to General Global Warming, →ISBN:

     We have only sometimes mist but there is no mist belt as on the Canary Islands.