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The Importance of Maintaining Bromeliad Imports

The Florida Entomologist, 1995
Exotic bromeliads are important to horticulture in Florida. Several hundred bromeliad species from eight common and over 40 obscure genera have been imported into Florida to fuel an industry of horticulture and scientific enquiry. Recent moves aimed at restricting the importation of exotic fauna and flora, including bromeliads, could be detrimental to ...
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The choice of bromeliads as a microhabitat by Scinax argyreornatus (Anura, Hylidae)

Brazilian 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, MSCS. Lima, OL. Peixoto, CAS Souza   +3 more
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Bromeliads for the Southern California garden

, 1954
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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A new Bromeliad (Navia) from Colombia A new Bromeliad (Navia) from Colombia

Caldasia, 1944
COLOMBIA: Vaupés: Upper Apaporis Basin, río Apaporis, Cerro del Castillo, alt. ca. 1000 feet (or 300 m.), July 27, 1943, R. E. Schultes 5655 (Gray Herb. TYPE; Dupl. Type in Herb. Nac. Colomb.) .  This new Navia appears most nearly related to N. acaulis but is easily distinguishable by its more numerous and much narrower-Ieaves and smaller flowers ...
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Alternative nutritional solutions for the culture of ornamental bromélias

O Mundo da Saúde, 2011
Cultivating ornamental bromeliads has been considered an important strategy for their preservation, because it allows the supply of a greater amount of plants to the market, reducing the use of units proceeding from the natural environment.
Vívian Tamaki, Sidnéia Maria de Paula, Catarina Carvalho Nievola, Shoey Kanashiro   +3 more
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A New Species of Elpidium (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Bromeliad and Non-bromeliad Phytotelmata in the Northeast of Argentina.

Zoological studies
A new species of the ostracod genus Elpidium (Timiriaseviinae), a group almost exclusively known from Neotropical bromeliad phytotelmata, is here described and illustrated from the northeast of Argentina. Elpidium chacoense n. sp. represents the first record of the genus in this country and brings the total of described Elpidium species to 19.
Díaz, Analía R., Campos, Raúl E., Martens, Koen   +2 more
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Bromeliad ornamental species: conservation issues and challenges related to commercialization - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v34i1.7314

Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2011
Bromeliads grow almost exclusively in the New World tropics and subtropics, mainly in South America in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (ca. 1200 species). Within the last few decades, their beautiful shapes and colors, low maintenance and easy adaptability
Darcy Mitchell, Raquel Rejane Bonato Negrelle, Adilson Anacleto   +2 more
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Extreme Droughts Push Heterotrophic Functions Above Baseline Levels in a Neotropical Ecosystem. [PDF]

Glob Chang Biol
Rota T, Jassey VEJ, Leroy C, Carrias JF, Corbara B, Leflaive J, Compin A, Srivastava DS, Farjalla VF, Céréghino R.   +9 more
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From lowlands to highlands: how elevation and habitat complexity drive anuran multidimensional diversity? [PDF]

PeerJ
Dias IR, Araújo KC, Herrera-Lopera JM, de Mira-Mendes CV, Medeiros TT, Nova MFV, Napoli MF, Solé M.   +7 more
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Aquatic Diptera in Phytotelmata of Bromeliaceae and Zingerberales. [PDF]

Insects
Hayford BL, Jurotich MM, Malik H, Chaboo CS.   +3 more
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