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Facilitation, competition and parasitic facilitation amongst invasive and native liana seedlings and a native tree seedling

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, Sharon Robinson, Liza Smith, Eva Watts   +3 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, Andrew R. Marshall, Andrew R. Marshall, Philip J. Platts, Robin L. Chazdon, Robin L. Chazdon, Hamidu Seki, Mason J. Campbell, Oliver L. Phillips, Roy E. Gereau, Robert Marchant, Jingjing Liang, John Herbohn, Yadvinder Malhi, Marion Pfeifer   +14 more
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Change in liana density over 30 years in a Bornean rain forest supports the escape hypothesis

Ecosphere, 2021
Liana dynamics may influence tree dynamics and vice versa. Only long‐term studies can perhaps disentangle them. In two permanent plots of lowland dipterocarp forest at Danum, a liana census in 1988 was repeated in 2018.
D. M. Newbery, C. Zahnd
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Temperate Lianas Have More Acquisitive Strategies than Host Trees in Leaf and Stem Traits, but Not Root Traits

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, Binzhou Chen, Hongru Zhao, Junjie Yi, Shiqiang Liu, Dan Tie, Jinshi Xu, Shu Hu, Yaoxin Guo, Ming Yue   +9 more
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Influencia de la invasión de Ligustrum lucidum (Oleaceae) sobre la comunidad de lianas en la sierra de San Javier (Tucumán – Argentina)

Ecología Austral, 2015
Ecología Austral, 25:65-74 (2015) En la sierra de San Javier (Tucumán, Argentina) se presentan bosques secundarios nativos e invadidos, estos últimos dominados por Ligustrum lucidum, que afecta la biodiversidad nativa.
Sergio J. Ceballos, Agustina Malizia, Natacha P. Chacoff   +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, Ciro Abbud RIGHI   +1 more
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Above- and below-ground competition in high and low irradiance: tree seedling responses to a competing liana Byttneria grandifolia [PDF]

, 2008
: In tropical forests, trees compete not only with other trees, but also with lianas, which may limit tree growth and regeneration. Liana effects may depend on the availability of above- and below-ground resources and differ between tree species.
Bongers, F, Bongers, F., Cao, K.F., Cai, Z.Q., Cai, Z-Q, Chen, Y-J, Chen, J.Y., Cao, K-F   +7 more
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Can Functional Traits Explain Plant Coexistence? A Case Study with Tropical Lianas and Trees

Diversity, 2020
Organisms are adapted to their environment through a suite of anatomical, morphological, and physiological traits. These functional traits are commonly thought to determine an organism’s tolerance to environmental conditions.
Felipe N. A. Mello, Sergio Estrada-Villegas, David M. DeFilippis, Stefan A. Schnitzer   +3 more
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Differential influence of cortex and stele components on root tip diameter in different types of tropical climbing plants

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Climbing plants are an abundant and taxonomically diverse plant group that competes intensely with trees and thus substantially affects forest diversity and structure.
Haiwu Xu, Siyuan Wang, Liang Tang, Yan Wang, Zhongyue Li, Wenna Wang   +5 more
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Community and ecosystem ramifications of increasing lianas in neotropical forests [PDF]

, 2011
Lianas (woody vines) are increasing in neotropical forests, representing one of the first large-scale structural changes documented for these important ecosystems.
Wright, J., Frans Bongers, Schnitzer, S.A., Stefan A. Schnitzer, Bongers, F., Schnitzer, Stefan A., Bongers, Frans, S. Joseph Wright, Wright, S. Joseph   +8 more
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