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Balancing tracks and trees: Assessing railroad impact on Brazilian biodiversity

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 4, Page 1345-1356, July 2026.
The Brazilian West–East Integration Railway (FIOL) aims to boost the national economy by improving commodity transport; however, it crosses three of Brazil's most biodiverse and fragile regions: the Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Using digitised plant records and land‐use analyses, our study reveals significant vegetation loss within the ...
Ana Luiza Silva Rocha, Anselmo Nogueira, Matheus Colli‐Silva, Juliana Gastaldello Rando   +3 more
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Karyotype Analysis of Two Epiphytic Ferns From Bangladesh

Journal of Life and Earth Science, 2014
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jles.v7i0.20128 J. Life Earth Sci., Vol.
Golam Kabir, Md Abdul Mazid, Shahriar Zaman, Abul Kalam Azad   +3 more
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Is There Life After Death? The Role of Standing Dead Phorophytes in Supporting Tropical Epiphyte Diversity

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Global increases in tree mortality from climate change and land‐use are altering forest structures, impacting canopy‐dwelling plants like vascular epiphytes, which depend on host trees (phorophytes). When a phorophyte dies standing, it becomes a snag, the local substrate conditions change and microclimatic exposure may increase, particularly ...
Camila Nardy Delgado, Samyra Gomes Furtado, Luiz Menini Neto, Flavio Nunes Ramos   +3 more
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Epiphytism across a megadiverse pteridoflora

Revista Peruana de Biología
Ferns and lycophytes represent the second largest epiphytic group of vascular plants. Here we examined herbaria collection and literature to provide an account of epiphytes for Peru’s pteridoflora. We assessed compositional differences related to geography, altitudinal distribution, and vegetation type, along with observations on endemism and ...
León, Blanca, Mondragón, Demetria, Kessler, Michael, Rouhan, Germinal, Young, Kenneth, Alarcón, Narda, Peláez Peláez, Freddy, Albán, Joaquina   +7 more
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Contrasting Forest Trajectories Drive Changes in Bird Functional Traits

Journal of Biogeography, Volume 53, Issue 7, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Aim We investigated how bird functional diversity varies across forest habitat types with distinct successional trajectories, namely (1) natural succession forests, with naturally regenerating forests established on former grasslands; (2) secondary forest remnants resulting from deforestation; and (3) conserved forests.
Larissa Corsini Calsavara Nozawa, Cristina Banks‐Leite, Marcos Robalinho Lima, José Ricardo Pires Adelino, Jan Karel Felix Mähler, Sandra Maria Hartz, Luiz dos Anjos   +6 more
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When growth form fossilizes: the description of a new liverwort species of the family Metzgeriaceae from the Cretaceous Las Hoyas site, with insights into its architecture and life mode

Palaeontology, Volume 69, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
Abstract Examining the liverwort fossil collection from the Las Hoyas site, which was previously classified as Thallites sp., led to the discovery of a new species of Metzgeriales: Metzgeriites gynothallicus. This species is characterized by the presence of both asexual (propagule branches) and sexual (female branches bearing sporophytes) reproductive ...
David Horcajada‐Tejero, Candela Blanco‐Moreno, Hugo Martín‐Abad   +2 more
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How Tropical Epiphytes at the Eden Project Contribute to Rainforest Canopy Science

Sibbaldia, 2017
Understanding the ecological patterns and ecosystem processes of tropical rainforest canopies is becoming increasingly urgent in the face of widespread deforestation. However, accessing rainforest canopies is far from simple, and performing manipulative
Julian Donald, Pete Maxfield, Don Murray, M.D. Farnon Ellwood   +3 more
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A New Species of Arthropteris From Samoa

New Zealand Journal of Botany, Volume 64, Issue 2, June 2026.
A new species, Arthropteris samoensis (Arthropteridaceae), recorded from the Samoan islands of Upolu and Savai‘i, is described and illustrated. In Samoa, the new species is distinguished from Arthropteris palisotii s.l. by its smaller stature and more delicate texture (laminae mostly < 3 cm wide vs.
Susan Fawcett, En Liu, Shih‐Yu Charles Lan, Alan R. Smith, Li‐Yaung Kuo   +4 more
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Patterns of ferns community assemblages in some Malaysian and Nigerian tropical forests

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Research on fern ecology has gained attention in the last decade, yet there is a paucity of information on the comparison of ferns communities across continents.
Gbenga F. Akomolafe, Rusly Rosazlina, Zakaria Rahmad, Fatai A. Oloyede   +3 more
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Additions to the Fern Flora of Niue (Polynesia): First Records of Ophioglossum lusitanicum L., Ophioderma falcatum (C.Presl) O.Deg. and Psilotum complanatum Sw. and the Disjunct Occurrence of Ophioderma intermedium (Hook.) Nishida

New Zealand Journal of Botany, Volume 64, Issue 2, June 2026.
During recent field survey for threatened and uncommon vascular plants in Niue, four ferns were collected and confirmed as additions to the indigenous flora. Ophioderma intermedium (Hook.) Nishida and O. falcatum (C.Presl) O.Deg. were collected from terrestrial habitats in primary tropical forest.
Peter B. Heenan
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