mist belt

plural mist belts · alternative mistbelt · alternative mist-belt

1. A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.

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

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

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   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.

   2008, Henry N. Houérou, Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa, →ISBN, page 52

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

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

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