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Persistent Habitat Instability and Patchiness, Sexual Attraction, Founder Events, Drift and Selection: A Recipe for Rapid Diversification of Orchids [PDF]

Plants
Orchidaceae is one of the most species-rich families of flowering plants, with most current diversity having evolved within the last 5 My. Patterns associated with species richness and rapid diversification have been identified but have not often been ...
James D. Ackerman, Raymond L. Tremblay, Tatiana Arias, Gerhard Zotz, Jyotsna Sharma, Gerardo A. Salazar, Jaspreet Kaur   +6 more
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Differential Species Richness and Ecological Success of Epiphytes and Hemiepiphytes of Neotropical Araceae and Cyclanthaceae [PDF]

Plants, 2023
Numerous plant functional traits of ecophysiology and morphology associated with an epiphytic life history have promoted relatively high rates of evolutionary diversification and ecological success in tropical families such as the Orchidaeae ...
Erin C. Riordan, Katharine L. Gerst, Orlando Vargas Ramirez, Philip W. Rundel   +3 more
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Evolution of Epiphytism and Fruit Traits Act Unevenly on the Diversification of the Species-Rich Genus Peperomia (Piperaceae) [PDF]

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016
The species-rich genus Peperomia (Black Pepper relatives) is the only genus among early diverging angiosperms where epiphytism evolved. The majority of fruits of Peperomia release sticky secretions or exhibit hook-shaped appendages indicative of ...
Lena Frenze, Paul Goetghebeur, Christoph Neinhuis, Marie-Stephanie Samain, Stefan Wanke   +4 more
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Vascular epiphytes in the Amazon: main gaps, limitations and perspectives for studies on the subject [PDF]

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2023
Vascular epiphytes stand out in tropical forests in terms of diversity. However, no comprehensive review of the group in the Amazon region has been performed so far.
Ana Laura da Silva Luz, Antônio Augusto de Souza Costa, Clediane Ribeiro Moreira, Felipe Fajardo Villela Antolin Barberena   +3 more
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Sinopse taxonômica de Cactaceae epifíticas no Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil Taxonomic synopsis of epiphytic Cactaceae in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2006
Um estudo taxonômico de Cactaceae epifíticas foi realizado no Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. A revisão inclui chaves de identificação, ilustrações, observações ecológicas e taxonômicas, distribuição geográfica e períodos de floração e frutificação ...
Danielle Bauer, Jorge Luiz Waechter
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Determinant factors for epiphyte-phorophyte interactions in patches of cloud forest within a matrix of campos rupestres [PDF]

Acta Botânica Brasílica
The epiphytic flora is influenced by the architecture and morpho-physiology of phorophytes. Our knowledge about the ecology of these communities remains limited, especially in the campos rupestres.
Marcela Amorim Gonçalves Pereira, Vitor Araújo da Silva, Maria Cristina Teixeira Braga Messias, Fernanda Vieira da Costa, Luiz Menini Neto, Pablo Emiliano dos Santos, Livia Echternacht   +6 more
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Edge effect on vascular epiphytic composition in a fragment of Atlantic Forest in northeastern Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2015
Epiphytes are common in the canopy of temperate and tropical forests, where they substantially contribute to species diversity and to key ecosystem processes.
Randolpho Gonçalves Dias-Terceiro, Gabriela Marques Peixoto, Vitor Serrano Gomes, Marcelo Costa Menezes, Eudécio Carvalho Neco, Tainá Sherlakyann Alves Pessoa, Juliano Ricardo Fabricante, Manoel Bandeira Albuquerque   +7 more
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Composição florística e estrutura da comunidade de epífitas vasculares em uma área de ecótono em Campo Mourão, PR, Brasil Floristic composition and structure of the vascular epiphyte community in a transition area at Campo Mourão, Paraná, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2010
O presente estudo foi realizado em uma área de ecótono de aproximadamente 30 hectares entre Floresta Estacional Semidecidual e Floresta Ombrófila Mista, localizada na Capela do Calvário, município de Campo Mourão, PR.
Henrique Cesar Lopes Geraldino, Marcelo Galeazzi Caxambú, Débora Cristina de Souza   +2 more
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Floristic composition and spatial distribution of vascular epiphytes in the restingas of Maracanã, Brazil

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2014
Vascular epiphytes constitute a life form that is important to maintaining the biological diversity of forest ecosystems, because they provide food resources and specialized microenvironments for fauna in the forest canopy.
Adriano Costa Quaresma, Mário Augusto Gonçalves Jardim   +1 more
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Do anatomical traits converge on epiphytic plants? [PDF]

Rodriguésia
Epiphytes represent approximately 10% of vascular plants, or 25,000 species distributed across 84 families. Water deficit is the greatest challenge faced by epiphytes, resulting in anatomical strategies aimed at maximizing water usage and minimizing ...
Flávia Bonizol Ferrari, Larissa Villani Rippel, Samyra Gomes Furtado, Nádia Sílvia Somavilla, Luiz Menini Neto   +4 more
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