Ecosystem services provided by bromeliad plants: A systematic review
The unprecedented loss of biological diversity has negative impacts on ecosystems and the associated benefits which they provide to humans. Bromeliads have high diversity throughout the Neotropics, but they have been negatively affected by habitat loss ...
Geraldine Ladino +4 more
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Bryophytes from some Caatinga areas in the state of Bahia (Brazil) [PDF]
The caatinga is a deciduous and xerophilous vegetation that covers large areas in Brazil. An irregular rainfall with a marked dry period is a characteristic feature.
Albertos, Belén +2 more
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Genetic relationships and variation in reproductive strategies in four closely related bromeliads adapted to neotropical ‘inselbergs': Alcantarea glaziouana, A. regina, A. geniculata and A. imperialis (Bromeliaceae) [PDF]
Background and Aims Bromeliads (Bromeliaceae) adapted to rock outcrops or ‘inselbergs' in neotropical rain forests have been identified as suitable plant models for studying population divergence and speciation during continental plant radiations. Little
Barbará, Thelma +5 more
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Species-Specific Effects of Ant Inhabitants on Bromeliad Nutrition.
Predator activities may lead to the accumulation of nutrients in specific areas of terrestrial habitats where they dispose of prey carcasses. In their feeding sites, predators may increase nutrient availability in the soil and favor plant nutrition and ...
Ana Z Gonçalves +3 more
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Collection records of the project "mosquitoes of middle America." 7. Costa Rica (CR). [PDF]
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The Atlantic Forest is a biome with megadiversity and a number of bromeliads take part of it. This is the case of Vriesea reitzii, an endemic bromeliad threatened with extinction.
Arlindo Rech Filho +2 more
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The choice of bromeliads as a microhabitat by Scinax argyreornatus (Anura, Hylidae)
The association of anurans to bromeliads presents different degrees of interaction such as: eventual, obligatory and bromeligen. The frog species Scinax argyreornatus shows a regular association with these plants.
J. Pederassi +3 more
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Recovery of commercially produced Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis and Bacillus sphaericus from tires and prevalence of bacilli in artificial and natural containers. [PDF]
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Developing Leadership in a National Cohort of Secondary Biology Teachers: Uses of an On-Line Course Structure to Develop Geographically Distant Professional Learning Community [PDF]
This report is a descriptive study of the role that on-line courses might have on the development of Professional Learning Communities (PLC’s) that support national leadership initiatives of participating high school biology teachers.
Balcerzak, P., May, V., Schaal, B.
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The Bromeliad-Anopheles-Malaria Complex in Trinidad. I-The Bromeliad Flora [PDF]
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