Image analysis reveals environmental influences on the seagrass-epiphyte dynamic relationship for Thalassia testudinum in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Spatiotemporal patterns in seagrass-epiphyte dynamics for Thalassia testudinum in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico were evaluated through biomass measurements and scanned-image based metrics to investigate the potentially harmful impact of excessive ...
Chi Huang +3 more
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Vascular Epiphyte Assemblages on Isolated Trees along an Elevational Gradient in Southwest Panama [PDF]
Diversity, 2021 Ongoing destruction of tropical forests makes isolated pasture trees potentially important for the persistence of original forest dwellers such as many vascular epiphytes.
Calixto Rodríguez Quiel, Gerhard Zotz
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The Impact of a Severe El Niño Event on Vascular Epiphytes in Lowland Panama [PDF]
Diversity, 2022 As climate change leads to increasing temperatures, tropical dry seasons are expected to become more severe. An overall intensification of drought events may strongly affect vascular epiphytes. Especially at the community level, the response of epiphytes
Helena J. R. Einzmann +2 more
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Phylogenetic diversity and the structure of host-epiphyte interactions across the Neotropics [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Understanding the mechanisms driving community assembly has been a major focus of ecological research for nearly a century, yet little is known about these mechanisms in commensal communities, particularly with respect to their historical/evolutionary ...
Marcio R. Pie +25 more
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Impact of Land-Use Change on Vascular Epiphytes: A Review [PDF]
PlantsHuman-caused habitat conversion, degradation, and climate change threaten global biodiversity, particularly in tropical forests where vascular epiphytes—non-parasitic plants growing on other plants—may be especially vulnerable.
Thorsten Krömer +3 more
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Diverging Elevational Patterns of Tree vs. Epiphyte Species Density, Beta Diversity, and Biomass in a Tropical Dry Forest [PDF]
PlantsThere is evidence to suggest that vascular epiphytes experience low competition for resources (light, water, and nutrients) compared to terrestrial plants.
Florian A. Werner, Jürgen Homeier
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Persistent Effects of Historical Selective Logging on a Vascular Epiphyte Assemblage in the Forest Canopy of the Western Ghats, India [PDF]
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Forest canopies have been dubbed the last biological frontier and continue to remain underexplored. Vascular epiphytes form a rich assemblage of plants within the forest canopy and apart from sustaining diverse taxa, they also fulfill critical ecological
K. S. Seshadri +2 more
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Combining critical transition indicator to compare the stable structure of epiphyte–host networks
Ecological IndicatorsNetworks have been widely used to describe a range of biotic interactions in ecosystems; topological indicators of ecological networks provide systematic way to characterize patterns of different interacting systems.
Hai-Xia Hu +6 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 Origanum vulgare L. (oregano) was chosen as suitable model to investigate the ability of the endophyte-microbiome, especially that of lactic acid bacteria, to develop specific interactions with the plant, mediated by the essential oils (EOs).
Erica Pontonio +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Forest canopies play a crucial role in structuring communities of vascular epiphytes by providing substrate for colonization, by locally varying microclimate, and by causing epiphyte mortality due to branch or tree fall.
Gunnar Petter +3 more
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