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Liana abundance, diversity, and distribution on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Lianas are a key component of tropical forests; however, most surveys are too small to accurately quantify liana community composition, diversity, abundance, and spatial distribution - critical components for measuring the contribution of lianas to ...
Stefan A Schnitzer +14 more
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Biology Open, 2022 Lianas, climbing woody plants, influence the structure and function of tropical forests. Climbing traits have evolved multiple times, including ancestral groups such as gymnosperms and pteridophytes, but the genetic basis of the liana strategy is largely
U. Uzay Sezen +5 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Forest degradation has been most frequently defined as an anthropogenic reduction in biomass compared with reference biomass in extant forests. However, so-defined “degraded forests” may widely vary in terms of recoverability.
Ryuichi Takeshige +6 more
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Mind the Gap: Reach and Mechanical Diversity of Searcher Shoots in Climbing Plants
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Climbing plants need to reach supports and position their leaves for light capture. Vines and lianas develop a large diversity of self-supporting shoots among diverse species and different kinds of attachment.
Tom Hattermann +4 more
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Current Biology, 2018 Rowe introduces the beautiful and fascinating plants classified as lianas.
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Lianas Significantly Reduce Aboveground and Belowground Carbon Storage: A Virtual Removal Experiment
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Lianas are structural parasites of trees that cause a reduction in tree growth and an increase in tree mortality. Thereby, lianas negatively impact forest carbon storage as evidenced by liana removal experiments.
Félicien Meunier +6 more
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Jurnal Sylva Lestari, 2015 Liana is one type of plant that becomes typical characteristic of a tropical rain forest ecosystem and its presence adds to the diversity of plant species in the forest ecosystem.
Tiopan Tua Halomoan Simamora +2 more
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International Journal of Plant Biology, 2022 Lianas are woody climbing plants and are thought to impact the hosting trees negatively. Ephedra altissima is a liana rising on the Moroccan endemic tree Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels. In this study, our objective was to investigate the impact of the liana
Laila Boukhalef +5 more
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Climate and hydraulic traits interact to set thresholds for liana viability
Nature Communications, 2022 Lianas are an important component of tropical forests. Here the authors compare liana and tree functional trait distributions from across the tropics and use a liana-tree competition model to show that a key hydraulic trait influences liana viability and
Alyssa M. Willson +4 more
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Liana loads and post-logging liana densities after liana cutting in a lowland forest in Bolivia
Forest Ecology and Management, 2004 Abstract Liana infestations can be a problem in forests managed for timber because lianas decrease rates of tree growth, damage tree boles, and inhibit tree regeneration. To determine the area from which lianas colonize tree crowns in a liana-rich moist lowland forest in a timber concession in the Department of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, we described ...
Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8526, USA ( host institution ) +3 more
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