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Impact of Land-Use Change on Vascular Epiphytes: A Review [PDF]

Plants
Human-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, Helena J. R. Einzmann, Glenda Mendieta-Leiva, Gerhard Zotz   +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]

Plants
There 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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Arboreal Epiphytes in the Soil-Atmosphere Interface: How Often Are the Biggest “Buckets” in the Canopy Empty?

Geosciences, 2019
Arboreal epiphytes (plants residing in forest canopies) are present across all major climate zones and play important roles in forest biogeochemistry.
Hailey Hargis, Sybil G. Gotsch, Philipp Porada, Georgianne W. Moore, Briana Ferguson, John T. Van Stan   +5 more
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Structure of the epiphyte community in a tropical montane forest in SW China.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Vascular epiphytes are an understudied and particularly important component of tropical forest ecosystems. However, owing to the difficulties of access, little is known about the properties of epiphyte-host tree communities and the factors structuring ...
Mingxu Zhao, Nalaka Geekiyanage, Jianchu Xu, Myo Myo Khin, Dian Ridwan Nurdiana, Ekananda Paudel, Rhett Daniel Harrison   +6 more
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Diversity and species of vascular epiphytes in Tingana, the highest flooded forest in Peru [PDF]

Mires and Peat
A variety of ecosystems can be found on the eastern flank of the Peruvian Andean-Amazonian piedmont. Amongst these, seasonally flooded forests (which include many peatlands) have attracted scientific attention because of the ecosystem services they ...
Yakov Quinteros-Gómez, Betty Millán , Doris Gómez-Ticerán, Franco Angeles-Alvarez, Abel Salinas-Inga, Jehoshua Macedo-Bedoya, Sergio Olórtegui Chamolí , Ángel Balbuena-Serrano   +7 more
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Epiphyte load on the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile does not indicate anthropogenic nutrient loading in Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean)

Scientia Marina, 2008
The epiphyte load on the leaves of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile was estimated at the end of summer in three sites and two depths (7 m and 17 m) of the Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Balearic Islands, Western Mediterranean) from 2004 to
Jorge Terrados, Francisco Javier Medina Pons   +1 more
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A checklist of vascular epiphytes of El Cometa Lagoon, Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico

Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2018
This study presents an updated checklist of vascular epiphytes found in the highly-conserved mangrove forest surrounding El Cometa Lagoon inside Pantanos de Centla Biosphere Reserve, Mexico.
Derio Antonio Jiménez-López, Candelario Peralta-Carreta, Jonathan V. Solórzano, Gerardo Luis Cervantes-Jiménez, Marco Antonio Domínguez-Vázquez   +4 more
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High species richness and turnover of vascular epiphytes is associated with water availability along the elevation gradient of Volcán Maderas, Nicaragua

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Research that has been conducted documenting species richness patterns on tropical mountains has resulted in conflicting observations: monotonic declines with increasing elevation, monotonic increases with increasing elevation, and a mid‐elevation “bulge.
Hazel K. Berrios, Indiana Coronado, Travis D. Marsico   +2 more
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Tree Species and Epiphyte Taxa Determine the “Metabolomic niche” of Canopy Suspended Soils in a Species-Rich Lowland Tropical Rainforest

Metabolites, 2021
Tropical forests are biodiversity hotspots, but it is not well understood how this diversity is structured and maintained. One hypothesis rests on the generation of a range of metabolic niches, with varied composition, supporting a high species diversity.
Albert Gargallo-Garriga, Jordi Sardans, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefaei, Karel Klem, Lucia Fuchslueger, Irene Ramírez-Rojas, Julian Donald, Celine Leroy, Leandro Van Langenhove, Erik Verbruggen, Ivan A. Janssens, Otmar Urban, Josep Peñuelas   +12 more
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Epiphyte Identification on Kappaphycus alvarezii Seaweed Farming Area in Arungkeke Waters, Jeneponto and The Effect on Carrageenan Quality

Ilmu Kelautan, 2019
Kappaphycus alvarezii which is widely cultivated at sea is susceptible to other algae that drift away and attach as epiphyte. This study aims to identify epiphyte on seaweed farming K. alvarezii and its effect on carrageenan quality.
Sri Redjeki Hesti Mulyaningrum, Hidayat Suryanto Suwoyo, Mudian Paena, Bunga Rante Tampangallo   +3 more
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