Shifting trait coordination along a soil‐moisture‐nutrient gradient in tropical forests
Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 21-37, January 2025.Illustration of the French Guiana tropical forest landscape. Author Antia Iglesias Fernandez. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Soil nutrients and water availability are strong drivers of tropical tree species distribution across scales.
Marion Boisseaux +18 more
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Uptake of Seeds Secondary Metabolites by Virola surinamensis Seedlings
International Journal of Analytical Chemistry, 2012 The major secondary metabolites and fatty acids occurring in the seeds of Virola surinamensis were monitored by GC-MS during germination and seedling development.
Massuo Jorge Kato +4 more
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Resin from Virola oleifera Protects Against Radiocontrast-Induced Nephropathy in Mice.
PLoS ONE, 2015 Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is an iatrogenic medical event for which there is not yet a successful therapy. Increasing evidence in rodents has suggested that this disease is associated with renal tubular and vascular injury that is triggered ...
Igor Santos Fonte Bôa +10 more
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Estudo anatômico de 24 espécies do gênero Virola (Myristicaceae) da Amazônia [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 1989 RESUMONo presente trabalho, autores apresentam o estudo dos caracteres anatômicos de 24 espécies do gênero Virola (Myristicaceae) da Amazônia. Para cada espécies, são apresentadas as seguintes informações: características gerais da madeira, descrição ...
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Deposição de serapilheira e de nutrientes de duas espécies da Amazônia. [PDF]
, 2015 A capacidade da Floresta Amazônica em desenvolver-se sobre solos com baixa disponibilidade de nutrientes e com grande produção de biomassa deve-se à eficiente deposição e rápida liberação dos elementos minerais mediante a decomposição da serapilheira e ...
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Reconciling natural history and species ecology: Myristica beddomei (Myristicaceae) in the Western Ghats, India. [PDF]
, 2013 Natural history is an important component of any ecological or conservation research. Very often this is not given adequate attention, and observations on the genera or species are often generalized to other, supposedly similar, congeneric species.
Chetana, HC, Ganesh, T
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International Journal of Forestry Research, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Understanding the interrelationships between plant communities and soil attributes in gully erosion can make valuable contributions to strategies focused on the conservation and recovery of degraded areas. Thus, we aimed to evaluate how the composition and structure of different plant communities are affected by soil attributes in a degraded area by ...
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Anelagem como tratamento silvicultural em oito espécies arbóreas na floresta amazônica. [PDF]
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CARVALHO, J. O. P. de, SANDEL, M. P.
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Incidence of Extra-Floral Nectaries and their Effect on the Growth and Survival of Lowland Tropical Rain Forest Trees [PDF]
, 2013 Received the best poster in Organismal Biology award at the NMS Undergraduate Research ForumMutualistic relationships between organisms have long captivated biologists, and extra-floral nectaries (EFNs), or nectar-producing glands, found on many plants ...
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Biotransformation of a tetrahydrofuran lignan by the endophytic fungus Phomopsis Sp. [PDF]
, 2009 The biotrasformation of the tetrahydrofuran lignan, (-)-grandisin, by the endophitic fungus Phomopsis sp, obtained from Viguiera arenaria, led to the formation of a new compound determined as 3,4-dimethyl-2-(4'-hydroxy-3',5'-dimethoxyphenyl)-5-methoxy ...
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