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Ecosystem services provided by bromeliad plants: A systematic review

open access: yesEcology and Evolution, 2019
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]

open access: yes, 1998
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]

open access: yes, 2017
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.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Adventitious shoots from nodule cluster cultures of Vriesea reitzii: an endemic and endangered bromeliad from atlantic forest Brotos adventícios a partir de culturas nodulares de Vriesea reitzii: uma bromélia endêmica e em extinção da Mata Atlântica

open access: yesCiência Rural, 2009
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)

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology
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
doaj   +1 more source

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]

open access: yes, 2009
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.
core   +1 more source

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