/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>34056818
It depends on how widespread the mountains are (since subtropical highlands are mentioned, I'm going to assume they go at least 1.5km above sea level), since that also determines how large the rain shadow will be. The gist is that area "benefitting" from the orthographic lift will receive more rain during summer, meaning that it will likely be pushed into tropical monsoon climate instead of the tropical savanna that currently dominated the southern coast of the continent. It's basically the same process that creates those crazy rainfall pattern maps you might have seen, but in somewhat more manageable manner since the /774/ highland is probably not the Himalayas.
North of the mountains, though, the rainshadow effect will result in the area being drier even during the summer wet season (since all its waters ended up south of the mountains). This is especially problematic for the area between the /774/ mountains and the /voms/-/tsun/ highland (namely the /pcg/-/vst+/ border), since the aforementioned highland also blocks any water it might have received from the north during winter. Depending on the scale of the /774/ mountains, that area might end up becoming tropical wet-and-dry climate, if not hot semi-arid (/774/ is probably not long enough to create a big enough rain shadow to make a full-on desert). Basically, if we assume the entirety of /774/ becomes a highland, the border region will likely become more like a savannah than the rainforest it currently is. Around the area immediately north~northwest of the mountains, you might even get semi-arid scrubland.
As for the climate of the elevated /774/, see picrel for a general breakdown. The line is somewhat blurry, but I would say the following numbers are fairly decent ballpark:
>Tropical lowland to montane forest: starting around 800m. The ground-level will likely be rather foggy, which also facilitates a robest understorey filled with climbing plants, ferns, moss, and other plants that need that high a humidity to survive.
>Montane forest to moorland: also known as the tree line, which should be around 3000~4000m. Trees will become increasingly patchy as altitude rises and temperature drops.
>Moorland to icecap: about 1km above tree line, so 4000~5000m. As the name suggests, here the temperature drops to the point it never rises above freezing, so glaciers will form.
If you want to know more about how the place might look like (assuming it's that tall), Kilimanjaro is a good place to start.

>>29940809
Hi!
Overall it looks fine, although I'm not too sure if the northern ridges would be considered montane shrublands, since I vaguely remember them to be fairly short (1000~1500m), and you'll need more altitude to get montane shrubland in your latitude. Personally, I would probably roll it into tropical dry forest, although one could also make a case for tropical seasonal forest, especially towards the western edge of the island. Mangrove forest would also likely be more widespread (you can probably coat the entire moist forest coast with it), although it could also be explained as a result of extensive coastal development.
A bigger issue (which also concerns montane shrubland) is that it should occupy an inner circle than the taiga - in a way, montane shrubland is quite similar to tundra, maybe slightly less bleak.