Fern mycorrhizae do not respond to fertilization in a tropical montane forest [PDF]
Plant-Environment InteractionsFerns are known to have a lower incidence of mycorrhization than angiosperms. It has been suggested that this results from carbon being more limiting to fern growth than nutrient availability, but this assertion has not been tested yet.
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Germination fitness of two temperate epiphytic ferns shifts under increasing temperatures and forest fragmentation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Ferns are an important component of ecosystems around the world. Studies of the impacts that global changes may have on ferns are scarce, yet emerging studies indicate that some species may be particularly sensitive to climate change.
Jose María Gabriel Y Galán +4 more
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Environmental heterogeneity and its influence on fern diversity in a low-altitude mountain forest in central Taiwan [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEnvironmental heterogeneity plays a crucial role in shaping the distribution and composition of natural vegetation, including understory ferns. This study investigated the influence of environmental variation on understory fern communities within a one ...
Pei-Hsuan Lee +6 more
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Low and facultative mycorrhization of ferns in a low-montane tropical rainforest in Ecuador. [PDF]
PLoS ONEArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are amongst the most studied obligate plant symbionts and regularly found in terrestrial plants. However, global estimates of AMF abundance amongst all land plants are difficult because i) the mycorrhizal status of many
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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 +2 more
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Two out of one: revising the diversity of the epiphytic fern genus Scleroglossum (Polypodiaceae, Grammitidoideae) in southern China [PDF]
PhytoKeys, 2019 Our understanding of the flora of China has greatly improved during the last 100 years but effective management of the rich biodiversity and unique natural resources requires resolving the taxonomic limitations of existing treatments.
Hong-Mei Liu +8 more
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Biovalentia: Biological Research Journal, 2018 Campus of Sriwijaya University in Indralaya , has a high diversity of flora including fern, especially the epiphytic ferns, whose existence is so widely found in oil palm plants. Survey about diversity of this epiphytic has been carried out from July
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Water-Deficit Stress in the Epiphytic Elkhorn Fern: Insight into Photosynthetic Response. [PDF]
Int J Mol Sci, 2023 Progressive climate changes cause disturbance of water relations in tropical rainforests, where epiphytic ferns are an important element of biodiversity. In these plants, the efficiency of photosynthesis is closely related to the efficiency of water transport. In addition, due to the lack of contact with the soil, epiphytes are extremely susceptible to
Oliwa J, Skoczowski A, Rut G, Kornaś A.
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First Fossil Record of Trichomanes sensu lato (Hymenophyllaceae) from the Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber, Myanmar [PDF]
Life, 2023 Hymenophyllaceae (filmy ferns), with ca. 430 species, are the most species-rich family of early diverging leptosporangiate ferns but have a poor fossil record dating back to the Late Triassic period.
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Significance of gametophyte form in tropical, epiphytic ferns
, 1995 Fern gametophytes are variable in growth form and longevity. Most are short-lived and cordate in outline. Others are long-lived, ribbon-like or filamentous, and clone-forming, and some produce gametophytic gemmae. Literature, field, and laboratory studies reveal that persistent, clone-forming gametophytes are typical of rainforest epiphytes.
Cynthia L. Dassler
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