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Thorsten Krömer
Researcher at Universidad Veracruzana
Publications - 94
Citations - 2189
Thorsten Krömer is an academic researcher from Universidad Veracruzana. The author has contributed to research in topics: Species richness & Epiphyte. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 87 publications receiving 1747 citations. Previous affiliations of Thorsten Krömer include National Autonomous University of Mexico & University of Göttingen.
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Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes
TL;DR: The study confirms the hump-shaped elevational pattern of vascular epiphyte richness, but the causes of this are still poorly understood and suggest that some taxa have a phylogenetically determined propensity for survival under extreme conditions (low temperatures, low humidity, and low light levels in the forest interior).
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Global warming, elevational ranges and the vulnerability of tropical biota
William F. Laurance,William F. Laurance,D. Carolina Useche,Luke P. Shoo,Sebastian K. Herzog,Michael Kessler,Federico Escobar,Gunnar Brehm,Jan C. Axmacher,I-Ching Chen,Lucrecia Arellano Gámez,Peter Hietz,Konrad Fiedler,Tomasz W. Pyrcz,Jan H. D. Wolf,Christopher L. Merkord,Catherine L. Cardelús,Andrew R. Marshall,Claudine Ah-Peng,Gregory H. Aplet,M. del Coro Arizmendi,William J. Baker,John A. Barone,Carsten A. Brühl,Rainer W. Bussmann,Daniele Cicuzza,Gerald Eilu,Mario E. Favila,Andreas Hemp,Claudia Hemp,Jürgen Homeier,Johanna Hurtado,Jill E. Jankowski,Gustavo H. Kattan,Jürgen Kluge,Thorsten Krömer,David C. Lees,Marcus Lehnert,John T. Longino,Jon C. Lovett,Patrick H. Martin,Bruce D. Patterson,Richard G. Pearson,Kelvin S.-H. Peh,Barbara A. Richardson,Michael J. Richardson,Michael J. Samways,Feyera Senbeta,Thomas B. Smith,Timothy M. A. Utteridge,James E. Watkins,Rohan Wilson,Stephen E. Williams,Chris D. Thomas +53 more
TL;DR: This paper found that species classified as elevational specialists (upper or lower-zone specialists) are relatively more frequent in the American than Asia-Pacific tropics, with African tropics being intermediate.
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Vertical stratification of vascular epiphytes in submontane and montane forest of the Bolivian Andes: the importance of the understory
TL;DR: Canopy epiphytes (occurring > 90% in tree zones Z3–5) were mainly represented by orchids and ferns, many with special adaptations to drought stress such as pseudobulbs, succulence, and poikilohydry.
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Species richness and habitat diversification of bryophytes in submontane rain forest and fallows of Bolivia
TL;DR: An analysis of corticolous bryophyte diversity on whole trees in primary rain forest and 4-15-y-old fallows at 500-650 m in the Alto Beni, Bolivia, showed a significantly decreased diversity of brysophyte families and moss species in the fallows, however, liverwort diversity was scarcely lower in theFallows.
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Nectar sugar composition and concentration in relation to pollination syndromes in Bromeliaceae.
TL;DR: Data presented here indicate that the characteristics of nectar in Bromeliaceae are predominantly determined by putative adaptations ofnectar sugars to preferences of the pollinators rather than by phylogenetic relations.