Harsh environmental conditions promote cooperative behavior in an epiphytic fern [PDF]
Plant Signaling & BehaviorHarsh, unpredictable environments are known to favor cooperative groups in animals. Whether plants exhibit similar relationships is unknown. Staghorn ferns (Platycerium bifurcatum, Polypodiaceae) are epiphytes that form cooperative groups which build ...
Kahurangi Cronin, Ian Hutton, K.C. Burns
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Transcriptomic Evidence of Adaptive Evolution of the Epiphytic Fern Asplenium nidus [PDF]
International Journal of Genomics, 2019 Epiphytic ferns have been found to flourish after angiosperms dominated forest communities, and they play important roles in rainforest canopies. How do epiphytic ferns adapt to tropical rainforest canopy habitats?
Jiao Zhang +7 more
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Evolutionary origins and life-history correlates of coloniality in the epiphytic fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae). [PDF]
PLoS ONEMany animals live in cooperative groups comprised of morphologically differentiated individuals that subdivide labour to help the group persist in harsh, unpredictable environments.
Riccardo Ciarle +2 more
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The Epiphytic Fern Elaphoglossum luridum (Fée) Christ. (Dryopteridaceae) from Central and South America: Morphological and Physiological Responses to Water Stress [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Elaphoglossum luridum (Fée) Christ. (Dryopteridaceae) is an epiphytic fern of the Atlantic Forest (Brazil). Anatomical and physiological studies were conducted to understand how this plant responds to water stress. The E.
Bruno Degaspari Minardi +3 more
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Biodiversity and spatial distribution of epiphytic ferns on Alsophila setosa Kaulf. (Cyatheaceae) caudices in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2010 The extractive exploitation of the tree fern Alsophila setosa Kaulf. alters forest formations and diminishes the availability of micro-habitat for epiphytes. A survey of epiphytic fern communities on A.
JL. Schmitt, PG. Windisch
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Survival and Growth of Epiphytic Ferns Depend on Resource Sharing [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016 Locally available resources can be shared within clonal plant systems through physiological integration, thus enhancing their survival and growth. Most epiphytes exhibit clonal growth habit, but few studies have tested effects of physiological integration (resource sharing) on survival and growth of epiphytes and whether such effects vary with species.
Hua‐Zheng Lu +12 more
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Crassulacean acid metabolism in the epiphytic fern Patycerium bifurcatum [PDF]
Photosynthetica, 2008 The epiphytic fern Platycerium bifurcatum grows in different habitats characterized by drought and high irradiance stress. The plant shows diurnal malate oscillations, indicative for CAM expression only in cover leaves, but not in sporotrophophyll. In P.
Grzegorz Rut +4 more
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Desiccation and rehydration dynamics in the epiphytic resurrection fern Pleopeltis polypodioides [PDF]
Plant Physiology, 2021 Abstract The epiphytic resurrection—or desiccation-tolerant (DT)—fern Pleopeltis polypodioides can survive extreme desiccation and recover physiological activity within hours of rehydration. Yet, how epiphytic DT ferns coordinate between deterioration and recovery of their hydraulic and photosynthetic systems remains poorly understood ...
Kyra A Prats, Craig R. Brodersen
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Morphological and molecular variations in the epiphytic CAM fern Pyrrosia piloselloides [PDF]
Biologia plantarum, 1998 Variation in shape and size of mature sterile fronds of the epiphytic fern, Pyrrosia piloselloides (L.) Price, was observed. These morphological differences were also linked to genotypic variations of the different fern populations studied. Genetic polymorphism in different populations of P.
Bin Leong Ong +2 more
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Water and Mineral Content of an Epiphytic Fern
American Fern Journal, 1919 Current botanical textbooks usually say little or nothing about the inorganic constituents of epiphytes, and tend to leave the impression in the student's mind that most of these plants derive their nutriment entirely from air and rain, and therefore consist wholly of gaseous elements and carbon (whose oxides are gases).* But every living organism ...
Roland M. Harper
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