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Azogues - Pindilig road, km 8-10 from Azogues. Secondary dry mountain scrub.

Road Puya - Tena, 14 km from Puyo. Road banks.

Hønsehals

Junction (Archidona) - Coca km 13.5. Roadside, sec. forest.

Velacruz - Las Chinchas km 8

Panamerican highway at Alausi. Dry gulley and roadbanks.

Between Portoviejo and Montecristi, 5 km W of Montecristi. Dry deciduous forest vegetation, disturbed.

Along new road Cuenca - Saraguro, app. 18 km S of sideroad to Nabon. Around small pond, partly in seeping water.

Mahabaleshwar.

Between Chanchan and Huigra.

Mt. Kaindi, N-slope above Edie Creek

Rio Verde, app. 15 km. east of Baños. Montane rainforest, many ferntrees

Thung Khai,

On the road between Cohuasqui and Merced de Buenos Aires. Remnants of high-andean forest in mosaic with bunch-grass paramo.

Río Cayapas at Cooperativa Atahualpa. Riverside forest.

Pangor - Tepeyac. Hacienda Tepeyac. Quebrada with remnants of natural forest mixed with plantation of Pinus radiata.

SE side of Cerro Sumaco, dominated by thick layers of mosses on the vertical slopes.

Comunidad Canelos, Reserva Yanapuma ca. 0.3 km E of Yanapuma. Rain forest.

20 km S of Oña. Roadside.

Cerro Yanaurcu, N ridge of the mountain, humid cushion superpáramo with scattered shrubs and bunchgrasses.

Road N of El Topo (Rio Negro-Mera), km ca. 10 (end of road). Montane forest at Río Topo.

Road San Miguel (Salcedo) - Puerto Nuevo (Napo) (under construction), 29 km from San Miguel (Cerro Verde Filo). Bunch grass páramo and rocky escarpment.

Cajanuma, along road to Casa de INEFAN.

San Miguel (Salcedo) - Puerto Nuevo (Napo) road (under construction), km 52 from Salcedo. Elfin forest and shrub-covered slopes along road.

Road Pallatanga - Cajabamba, 32 km from Pallatanga. Riverside vegetation with large shrubs.

Vicinity of Salango. Savanna and semi-deciduous forest close to beach.

Parque Nacional Cotopaxi, northern slopes of Volcán Cotopaxi along road to El Refugio. Patches of shrubs and mats of herbs, interchanging with sandy areas.

Parque Nacional Cajas, Cantón Cuenca, Pvcia. Azuay, Coord. UTM 17MPS9692

Páramo de Mojanda. Between Laguna Grande and Laguna Negra.

Cerro Buenos Aires at Lago Argentina. Near Punta Moreno.

Rd. Amaluza - Jimbura, ca. km 3. Affluent of River Calvas. Riverine vegetation with surrounding steep slopes and vertical rocks. Area disturbed by grazing.

Old road LaToma-Loja, Kms. 6-10. Shrubby vegetation.

Río Wai si ayá. 5 km upstream from the outlet in Río Aguarico. Primary forest on very wet ground.

Road Cañar - El Tambo, km 3 from Cañar. Rocky slope with xerophytic vegetation dominated by Borzicactus sepium.

Along drinkwater-canal on W-side of Volcan Atacazo.

Ding-hu Shan

App. 3 km E of Sta Helena. Grassy hills.

Gualaceo - Limón road, km 18. Roadside. Shrubby vegetation dominated by Gynoxys, Miconia, Berberis, Ribes and Valeriana.

App. 2 km SE of El Cisne. Open, grazed scrub along road.

Km 2-7 NE of La Toma on gravel roads. Xeric scrub and desert.

Alao - Huamboya, between km 8 and 3700m of altitude. Lower parts pastures and fences; upper part "pajonal" and disturbed forests.

Midway between Quito and Nono, at old muletrack. Rock-face surrounded by scrub.

Along road Cumbe - Oña. Roadside.

Sinangue, upstream from Lumbaqui on Río Aguarico, ca 1 km W of village. Tall mature forest in flat terrain.

Road from Otavalo to Lagunas Mojandas ca 3 km before the lakes. Small fragment of cloud forest surrounded by grass páramo.

Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Kelogi. A small rocky hill with scattered trees surrounded with grass savanna, clasifien as lowland, "olpurkol" by the Maasai. Informatin given by Kidami Metele, irmakaa-agegroup and Lepilal Ole Nakuroi, irking'onde-agegroup.

Volc. Chimborazo, just below the lower Refúgio (4840 m)

Road Angamarca - El Corazón, just below Pinllopata. Remnants of montane forest.

San Isidro. Cultivated sites near houses and steep slopes of valley used for pasture land.

Dindéfello. Trail towards the waterfall. Gallery forest. Rocky soil.