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Harsh environmental conditions promote cooperative behavior in an epiphytic fern. [PDF]

Plant Signal Behav
Harsh, 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 communal water and nutrient 'nests' at the tops of trees, a habitat characterized by water and nutrient
Cronin K, Hutton I, Burns KC.
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Evolutionary origins and life-history correlates of coloniality in the epiphytic fern genus Platycerium (Polypodiaceae). [PDF]

PLoS One
Many animals live in cooperative groups comprised of morphologically differentiated individuals that subdivide labour to help the group persist in harsh, unpredictable environments.
Ciarle R, de Bock K, Burns KC.
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High gene flow in epiphytic ferns despite habitat loss and fragmentation [PDF]

Conservation Genetics, 2011
Tropical montane forests suffer from increasing fragmentation and replacement by other types of land-use such as coffee plantations. These processes are known to affect gene flow and genetic structure of plant populations. Epiphytes are particularly vulnerable because they depend on their supporting trees for their entire life-cycle.
Manuela Winkler, Мarcus A. Koch, Peter Hietz   +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]

ScientificWorldJournal, 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.
Minardi BD, Voytena AP, Santos M, Randi AM.   +3 more
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Co-Occurrence Patterns of Common and Rare Leaf-Litter Frogs, Epiphytic Ferns and Dung Beetles across a Gradient of Human Disturbance [PDF]

, 2011
Indicator taxa are commonly used to identify priority areas for conservation or to measure biological responses to environmental change. Despite their widespread use, there is no general consensus about the ability of indicator taxa to predict wider ...
Bebbington, A. J., Oldekop, J. A., Preziosi, R. F., Truelove, N. K., Tysklind, N., Villamarin, S.   +5 more
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Higher clonal integration in the facultative epiphytic fern Selliguea griffithiana growing in the forest canopy compared with the forest understorey. [PDF]

Ann Bot, 2015
Lu HZ, Liu WY, Yu FH, Song L, Xu XL, Wu CS, Zheng YL, Li YP, Gong HD, Chen K, Li S, Chen X, Qi JH, Lu SG.   +13 more
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Epiphytic ferns and bryophytes of Tasmanian tree-ferns: A comparison of diversity and composition between two host species [PDF]

, 2005
Ferns, bryophytes and lichens are the most diverse groups of plants in wet forests in south-eastern Australia. However, management of this diversity is limited by a lack of ecological knowledge of these groups and the difficulty in identifying species ...
Dalton, PJ, Jordan, GJ, Roberts, NR
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Burmese amber fossils bridge the gap in the Cretaceous record of polypod ferns [PDF]

, 2016
publisher: Elsevier articletitle: Burmese amber fossils bridge the gap in the Cretaceous record of polypod ferns journaltitle: Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics articlelink: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2016.01.003 ...
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Phyllosphere microbiology with special reference to diversity and plant genotype [PDF]

, 2008
The phyllosphere represents the habitat provided by the aboveground parts of plants, and on a global scale supports a large and complex microbial community.
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Environmentally driven extinction and opportunistic origination explain fern diversification patterns. [PDF]

, 2017
Combining palaeontological and neontological data offers a unique opportunity to investigate the relative roles of biotic and abiotic controls of species diversification, and the importance of origination versus extinction in driving evolutionary ...
Antonelli, Alexandre,, Karger, Dirk Nikolaus,, Kessler, Michael,, Lehtonen, Samuli,, Lund University., Peña, Carlos,, Scotese, Christopher,, Silvestro, Daniele,, Tuomisto, Hanna,, Wahlberg, Niklas,   +9 more
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