The most diverse cloud forests found in Peru and Bolivia covers 500,000 km2 (190,000 sq mi).

Chengyu Weng studied how pollen diversity is affected by different temperatures due to changing elevation.

During hot temperatures, pollen diversity increased at higher elevations, from plant species moving up.

The location must also have lost a significant amount of land and threatened species, according to the fourth edition of the Essentials of Conservation Biology.

The forests contained the characteristics of high levels of plant endemism and loss of habitats.

A hotspot needs 1,500 endemic vascular plant species and a loss of at least 30 percent of its original land.

Due to a hotspot's great diversity and endemic species, conservation biology and many other sources conduct research in these locations.

One specific research studies fire's impact on vegetation in Northern Ecuador of the Tropical Andes.

This location's variety of vegetation includes different forests, land used for agricultural and páramo, or tropical alpine found at 4,500 meters.

The writer believes that policies used to implement fire suppression are not probable or beneficiary to the plant.

This is a small example of research in the Tropical Andes that could make a big impact to saving diversity.

Further research is also processed on looking into the decrease in avian populations, focusing in hotspots due to its massive diversity.

The study focuses in Endemic Bird Areas or EBAs in order to understand why they become extinct and possible conservation plans.

Their results showed that if a species has habitat specificity and is large in size, the chance of extinction increases.

Conservation goals need to look into human activities and the bird's habitat specificity in order to make a positive impact.

An example of research on a specific threatened species in the Tropical Andes is the rare Tremarctos ornatus, also known as Andean (or spectacled) bears.

Two males were captured, and radio collars were attached in order to track and study their habits and movement.

The journal Nature contained an article by Norman Myers comparing the 25 hotspots with land and species in 2000.

That the large land area shows the Tropical Andes can provide biodiversity with a diverse landscape.

Some conservation programs are helping the situation to educate churches to use other resources besides the vulnerable wax palm.

Hydroelectric dams have also been put in the Tropical Andes and negatively pressured cloud forests.

The 25 percent of land that is protected is still poorly managed with little help from the public from lack of education.

By studying feathers of 2,500 individual bird species within nine forests, observation showed asymmetry linked with fragmentation.

[7] They suggest asymmetry of bird feathers influenced by the stress of fragmentation and changing environments.

A study by Niall O'Dea looks at bird communities in general and how habitat degradation impacts them.

Another serious threat to the Tropical Andes is global warming, the effect of too much of greenhouse gasses trapped in the air that hold in heat.

He also believes the Tropical Andes is in the top six vulnerable hotspots, with the possibility of plant extinction exceeding 2000 species.

Considering that the Tropical Andes is recorded to have the most amphibians, some restricted to this location, diseases could decrease the diversity greatly.

Due to increase in temperature, the fungus has the ability to spread rapidly and thrive on living amphibians.

Considering the great plant diversity in the Tropical Andes, especially so many endemics, nitrogen deposition could be a severe threat.