Phytodiversity of Barail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India: field‑based observations—I. Trees and lianas [PDF]
Check List, 2017 Trees and lianas were inventorized in Barail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India, which revealed the occurrence of 112 and 23 species of trees and lianas respectively.
Arpita Bora, Debjyoti Bhattacharyya
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Large lianas as hyperdynamic elements of the tropical forest canopy [PDF]
, 2005 Lianas (woody vines) are an important component of lowland tropical forests. We report large liana and tree inventory and dynamics data from Amazonia over periods of up to 24 years, making this the longest geographically extensive study of liana ...
Baker, T.R. +4 more
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Lianas Suppress Seedling Growth and Survival of 14 Tree Species in a Panamanian Tropical Forest [PDF]
, 2016 Lianas are a common plant growth form in tropical forests, where they compete intensely with trees, decreasing tree recruitment, growth, and survival. If the detrimental effects of lianas vary significantly with tree species identity, as is often assumed,
Andrade +65 more
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Conceptualising the Global Forest Response to Liana Proliferation
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2020 Lianas are woody vines, rooted in the soil, and supported physically by trees. Lianas contribute to forest ecosystem functioning globally, but especially in the tropics and subtropics. However, prolific liana growth following heavy disturbance frequently
Andrew R. Marshall +14 more
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The locomotor ecology of wild western lowland gorillas: How does the largest ape exploit complex arboreal environments? [PDF]
J AnatWhen travelling and feeding in the canopy, the western lowland gorillas engaged in bipedal locomotion likely as a strategy to mitigate the risk of falling at the cost of increased energy expenditure. Abstract Western lowland gorillas are the largest and most sexually dimorphic ape that habitually exploits arboreal environments.
King CA +5 more
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NeoBiota, 2017 Lianas are prevalent in gaps and edges of forests where they compete intensely with trees, reducing growth and recruitment. Invasive lianas have the potential to be particularly harmful as the competitive advantage of the liana life history may be ...
Kris French +3 more
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Plants, 2022 Increasingly, tropical studies based on aboveground traits have suggested that lianas have a more acquisitive strategy than trees, thereby possibly explaining the increase in lianas relative to trees in many tropical forests under global change. However,
Zhe Zhou +9 more
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A Reply to Verbeeck and Kearsley: Addressing the Challenges of Including lianas in Global Vegetation Models [PDF]
, 2016 Verbeeck and Kearsley (1) rightfully point out that global vegetation models would greatly benefit from implicitly including the effects of lianas. Recent experimental evidence that lianas substantially reduce the capacity of tropical forests to uptake ...
Powers, Jennifer S. +2 more
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Cobertura de lianas no dossel florestal e seus efeitos sobre a regeneração de espécies arbóreas. Liana’s coverture in the forest canopy and its effects on regeneration of tree species. [PDF]
Revista do Instituto Florestal, 2016 A regeneração natural é um bom indicador da capacidade de perpetuação das espécies arbóreas e da manutenção da biodiversidade em fragmentos florestais.
Mariane Martins RODRIGUES +1 more
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Increasing dominance of large lianas in Amazonian forests [PDF]
, 2002 Ecological orthodoxy suggests that old-growth forests should be close to dynamic equilibrium, but this view has been challenged by recent findings that neotropical forests are accumulating carbon and biomass, possibly in response to the increasing ...
A White +43 more
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