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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.
Juliano Sarmento Cabral +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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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
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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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2021 Epiphytes are one of the most diversified plant life forms, whose species richness peaks in the tropics and subtropics. Here we examined vertical distribution metrics (i.e., number of epiphyte individuals and epiphyte species richness) of vascular ...
Yagya P. Adhikari +5 more
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How Epiphytic Are Filmy Ferns? A Semi-Quantitative Approach
Diversity, 2023 Similar to plants in many other families, members of the Hymenophyllaceae use numerous substrates for growth, e.g., soil, rocks or tree bark. However, substrate preference does not only differ among species but can also vary among members of the same ...
Gerhard Zotz, Helena J. R. Einzmann
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The Impact of a Severe El Niño Event on Vascular Epiphytes in Lowland Panama
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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Vascular Epiphyte Diversity Differs with Host Crown Zone and Diameter, but Not Orientation in a Tropical Cloud Forest. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Vascular epiphytes are important components of biological diversity in tropical forests. We measured the species richness and abundance of vascular epiphytes along four vertical crown zones and five horizontal orientations on 376 trees, as well as the ...
Xixi Wang +6 more
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Diversity, 2022 Three species of the genus Ishige (Phaeophyceae, Ishigeaceae) are known from Korea, Japan and Mexico; they include Ishige foliacea Okamura, I. okamurae Yendo and I. sinicola (Setchell and N.L. Gardner) Chihara. Two species, I. foliacea and I.
Eun-Young Lee +2 more
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F1000Research, 2014 The high diversity and abundance of vascular epiphytes in tropical montane cloud forest is associated with frequent cloud immersion, which is thought to protect plants from drought stress.
Joshua M. Rapp, Miles R. Silman
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