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Orchid [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Urology & Men's Health, 2014
AbstractMore than 43000 men are diagnosed with a male cancer every year. Orchid is the UK's leading charity dedicated to testicular, prostate and penile cancer. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons.
openaire   +1 more source

A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Crop wild relatives (CWR) in Zimbabwe are reservoirs of beneficial agronomic traits, yet they remain under‐documented and poorly conserved. This study developed Zimbabwe's first national CWR checklist based on a conceptual framework combining floristic, ecological and ethnobotanical data, revealing over 2700 taxa, with nearly 1000 edible species ...
Kudakwashe Mutasa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollination‐related plant traits under environmental changes: Seasonal and daily mismatches produce temporal constraints

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Pollination is a key tenet of ecosystem sustainability and food security, but it is threatened by climate change. While many studies investigated the response of plant‐pollination traits to temperature, few attempted multifactorial and integrative approaches with ...
Mathieu A. J. Leclerc   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mycorrhizal symbiosis and environmental conditions shape understory herb diversity in a large temperate forest region

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Understorey herbaceous plants are a vital component of forest biodiversity in temperate forests. However, the mechanisms underlying their community assembly and species coexistence remain poorly understood.
Jie Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in the Abundance of Danish Orchids over the Past 30 Years

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
Orchid abundance data collected over the past 30 years (1987–2016) from 440 sites within the National Orchid Monitoring Program were analyzed to quantify the population trends of orchids in Denmark, and the underlying reasons for the observed population ...
Christian Damgaard   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inventarisasi Tumbuhan Anggrek Di Kawasan Suaka Margasatwa Siranggas Kabupaten Pakpak Bharat (Inventory of Orchids in Siranggas Wildlife Pakpak Bharat) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Indonesia\u27s tropical forests is one of the richest in natural resources of orchids. North Sumatra is a suitable place for growing orchids. This study aims to inventory the orchids based on altitude in Siranggas Wildlife Kecupak I Village, Pergetteng ...
Banurea, D. (Dasma)   +2 more
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The predatory behavior of ants: an impressive panoply of morphological adaptations

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
This review focuses on predation in ants, showing the wide diversity of cases from solitary foraging to group hunting tactics, as well as the evolution of mandible shape frequently adapted to capture specific prey. Although most ants are generalist feeders, finding their sugary substances directly on plants or indirectly via sap‐sucking insects, some ...
Alain Dejean   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Different Leaf Strategies Between Lithophytic and Terrestrial Orchids in a Subtropical Karst Forest

open access: yesPlants
The leaf economic spectrum framework explains how plants optimize leaf traits for productivity, distribution, and stress tolerance. Orchids in Southwestern China’s karst forests, especially lithophytic species, are challenged by prolonged drought and ...
Mei Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity of Epiphytic Orchids and Host Trees (Phorophytes) in Secondary Forest of Coban Trisula, Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia

open access: yesBiotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2016
Introduction: Epiphytic orchids are an integral component of forest ecosystems that contributes to a high proportion of plant diversity. Host trees are a natural habitat requirement of epiphytic orchids on which the orchids live on.
Siti Nurfadilah
doaj   +1 more source

On the success of a swindle: pollination by deception in orchids [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
A standing enigma in pollination ecology is the evolution of pollinator attraction without offering reward in about one third of all orchid species. Here I review concepts of pollination by deception, and in particular recent findings in the pollination ...
Schiestl, Florian
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