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Reproductive phenology of Ditassa burchellii (Apocynaceae, Asclepiadoideae), a herbaceous vine, in a semi-deciduous forest from Brazil

Rodriguésia
We analyzed the reproductive phenology of Ditassa burchellii and the influence of abiotic factors on the species phenophases. The study was conducted on individuals of a natural population from a semi-deciduous forest (Viçosa municipality, Minas Gerais ...
Anderson Lopes Fontes, Adriano Valentin-Silva, Milene Faria Vieira   +2 more
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Paleocene wind-dispersed fruits and seeds from Colombia and their implications for early Neotropical rainforests

Acta Palaeobotanica, 2014
Extant Neotropical rainforests are well known for their remarkable diversity of fruit and seed types. Biotic agents disperse most of these disseminules, whereas wind dispersal is less common.
Herrera Fabiany, Manchester Steven R., Carvalho Mónica R., Jaramillo Carlos, Wing Scott L.   +4 more
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Flora and Annual Distribution of Flowers and Fruits in the Ubajara National Park, Ceará, Brazil

Floresta e Ambiente, 2020
Although the conservation of tropical biodiversity depends on protected areas, there is still a very large ‘gap’ of knowledge on the flora of Brazilian reserves, especially in the Northeast region of Brazil.
Andréa Pereira Silveira, Bruno Sousa de Menezes, Maria Iracema Bezerra Loiola, Luiz Wilson Lima-Verde, Dalva Neta e Zanina, Ellen Cristina Dantas de Carvalho, Bruno Cruz de Souza, Rafael Carvalho da Costa, Waldir Mantovani, Marcelo Oliveira Teles de Menezes, Lilian Maria Araújo Flores, Francisco Carlos Barboza Nogueira, Ligia Queiroz Matias, Lívia Silvia Barbosa, Fernanda Melo Gomes, Luciana Silva Cordeiro, Valéria da Silva Sampaio, Maria Edenilce Peixoto Batista, Raimundo Luciano Soares Neto, Maria Arlene Pessoa da Silva, Natália Barbosa Campos, Arycelle Alves de Oliveira, Francisca Soares de Araujo   +22 more
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Tree seed dispersal modes affect forest resilience along savanna-forest boundaries

Environmental Research Letters
The effects of global changes on tropical forests and savannas are manifested primarily at their boundaries. The dynamics at these forest-savanna boundaries depend on their shapes, which influence the spread of fires through the savanna landscape.
Max van der Ree, Gerard T Barkema, Arie Staal   +2 more
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Analysis of Herbaceous Plant Succession and Dispersal Mechanisms in Deglaciated Terrain on Mt. Yulong, China

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
Ecological succession itself could be a theoretical reference for ecosystem restoration and reconstruction. Glacier forelands are ideal places for investigating plant succession because there are representative ecological succession records at long ...
Li Chang, Yuanqing He, Taibao Yang, Jiankuo Du, Hewen Niu, Tao Pu   +5 more
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Segetal complex – pioneer stages of syntrophic communities in the Meshchovskiy Opole of the non-Chernozem Zone of Russia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
In the conditions placor soil Meshchovskiy Opole the Central economic region of the Nonchernozem zone of the Russian Federation on agro-gray forest middle loamy soils defined by the main species composition of segetal complex field agrophytocenoses in ...
Burlutskiy Valeriy A., Mazurov Vladimir N., Peliy Alexander F., Semeshkina Polina S., Borodina Ekaterina S., Diop Ameth   +5 more
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Pollination biology of Eriolaena hookeriana Wight and Arn. (Sterculiaceae), a rare tree species of Eastern Ghats, India

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2014
Eriolaena hookeriana is a rare medium-sized deciduous tree species. The flowering is very brief and occurs during early wet season. The flowers attract certain bees such as Apis dorsata, Halictus sp., Anthophora sp., Xylocopa latipes, and also the wasp ...
A.J.S. Raju, P.H. Chandra, K.V. Ramana, J.R. Krishna   +3 more
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Vegetative and reproductive tree phenology of ecological groups in a tropical dry forest in central Veracruz, Mexico

Botan‪ical Sciences, 2016
Background Tree phenology has been related to abiotic and biotic factors that trigger and regulate phenological patterns. Question We investigated whether tree species classified into ecological groups of species of successional status (late-, early ...
Guadalupe Williams-Linera, Claudia Alvarez-Aquino   +1 more
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Phenology, seed dispersal and difficulties in natural recruitment of the canopy tree Pachira quinata (Malvaceae)

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2011
Life history and recruitment information of tropical trees in natural populations is scarce even for important commercial species. This study focused on a widely exploited Neotropical canopy species, Pachiraquinata (Malvaceae), at the southernmost ...
Maria Clara Castellanos, Pablo R. Stevenson   +1 more
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Síndromes de dispersão de Angiospermas em uma Unidade de Conservação na Caatinga, SE, Brasil

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O presente estudo teve por objetivos caracterizar os tipos de frutos e as síndromes de dispersão de Angiospermas no Monumento Natural Grota do Angico, localizado nos municípios de Canindé de São Francisco e Poço Redondo, SE, Brasil.
Ana Cecília da Cruz Silva, Ana Paula do Nascimento Prata, Anabel Aparecida de Mello, Ana Cláudia Alencar da Silva Santos   +3 more
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