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Searching and Intertwining: Climbing Plants and GrowBots [PDF]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020
Applications in remote inspection and medicine have motivated the recent development of innovative thin, flexible-backboned robots. However, such robots often experience difficulties in maintaining their intended posture under gravitational and other ...
James Gallentine, Michael B. Wooten, Marc Thielen, Marc Thielen, Marc Thielen, Ian D. Walker, Thomas Speck, Thomas Speck, Thomas Speck, Thomas Speck, Karl Niklas   +10 more
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Autonomously shaping natural climbing plants: a bio-hybrid approach [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2018
Plant growth is a self-organized process incorporating distributed sensing, internal communication and morphology dynamics. We develop a distributed mechatronic system that autonomously interacts with natural climbing plants, steering their behaviours to
Mostafa Wahby, Mary Katherine Heinrich, Daniel Nicolas Hofstadler, Ewald Neufeld, Igor Kuksin, Payam Zahadat, Thomas Schmickl, Phil Ayres, Heiko Hamann   +8 more
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Mind the Gap: Reach and Mechanical Diversity of Searcher Shoots in Climbing Plants

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022
Climbing plants need to reach supports and position their leaves for light capture. Vines and lianas develop a large diversity of self-supporting shoots among diverse species and different kinds of attachment.
Tom Hattermann, Laureline Petit-Bagnard, Christine Heinz, Patrick Heuret, Nick P. Rowe   +4 more
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Global diversification of a tropical plant growth form: environmental correlates and historical contingencies in climbing palms [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics, 2014
Tropical rain forests (TRF) are the most diverse terrestrial biome on Earth, but the diversification dynamics of their constituent growth forms remain largely unexplored.
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Leaf trait plasticity means green facades are a flexible nature-based solution for vertical greening under full-sun and heavy shade conditions

Nature-Based Solutions, 2023
Climbing plants that cover building walls (indirect green façades) are a nature-based solution for urban greening in dense urban areas. Green facades can provide important ecosystem service benefits such as cooling, biodiversity habitat and visualamenity
Pei-Wen Chung, Stephen J Livesley, Claire Farrell   +2 more
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Assessment of the Potential Risk of Rock-Climbing for Cliff Plant Species and Natural Protected Areas of Spain

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
In recent years, the popularity of rock-climbing has grown tremendously, setting an increasing pressure on cliff habitats. Climbing may be particularly harmful in the Mediterranean biome due to its appropriate environmental conditions for climbing. A few
Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Martí March-Salas, Juan Lorite   +2 more
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Wind Forces in Overgrown Rope Façades

Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2021
Modern cities face a climatic problem due to the high proportion of sealed surfaces that increase the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Green surfaces offer a way to mitigate the UHI effect, as they positively influence the thermal energy storage and air ...
Kilian Arnold, Susanne Gosztonyi, Andreas Luible   +2 more
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Decision-Making Underlying Support-Searching in Pea Plants

Plants, 2023
Finding a suitable support is a key process in the life history of climbing plants. Those that find a suitable support have greater performance and fitness than those that remain prostrate.
Qiuran Wang, Silvia Guerra, Bianca Bonato, Valentina Simonetti, Maria Bulgheroni, Umberto Castiello   +5 more
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The distribution of climbing chalk on climbed boulders and its impact on rock‐dwelling fern and moss species

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Rock climbing is popular, and the number of climbers rises worldwide. Numerous studies on the impact of climbing on rock‐dwelling plants have reported negative effects, which were mainly attributed to mechanical disturbances such as trampling and removal
Daniel Hepenstrick, Ariel Bergamini, Rolf Holderegger   +2 more
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Hawthorn Lace Bug (Hemiptera: Tingidae), First Record of Injury to Roses, with a Review of Host Plants [PDF]

, 2017
Hawthorn lace bug, Coryrhucha cydoniae (Fitch), is reported for the first time as damag- ing roses. Injury to climbing and hybrid Tea roses is described, and a list of known host plants is provided based on observations in Pennsylvania and review of ...
Wheeler, A. G, Jr
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