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Regional and Fine Scale Variation of Holoepiphyte Community Structure in Central Amazonian White‐Sand Forests
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This article is published in Biotropica.The article was published on 2016-01-01. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Amazon rainforest & Amazonian.read more
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Composition, diversity and structure of vascular epiphytes in two contrasting Central Amazonian floodplain ecosystems
Adriano Costa Quaresma,Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade,Yuri Oliveira Feitosa,Florian Wittmann,Hans ter Steege,Hans ter Steege +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared composition, richness and structure of epiphyte assemblages in white-water and black-water floodplains (varzea and igapo) in Central Amazonia.
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Surface roots as a new ecological zone for occurrence of vascular epiphytes: a case study on Pseudobombax trees on inselbergs
Dayvid Rodrigues Couto,Dayvid Rodrigues Couto,Talitha Mayumi Francisco,Mário Luís Garbin,Henrique Machado Dias,Miriam Cristina Alvarez Pereira,Luiz Menini Neto,José Eduardo Macedo Pezzopane +7 more
TL;DR: The results reinforce the importance of the lithophyte tree Pseudobombax for the maintenance of epiphytic diversity in the tropical inselbergs of southeast Brazil, mainly due to its size and architecture.
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What do tropical cryptogams reveal? Strong genetic structure in Amazonian bryophytes.
Alice Ledent,Jérémy Gauthier,Martinha Pereira,Rick P. Overson,Benjamin Laenen,Patrick Mardulyn,S. Robbert Gradstein,Myriam de Haan,Petra Ballings,Iris Van der Beeten,Charles E. Zartman,Alain Vanderpoorten +11 more
TL;DR: Analysis of Amazonian bryophytes reveals spatial genetic structures comparable to those documented for angiosperms, whose diaspores are orders of magnitude larger, and suggests that the plight of this component of cryptic biodiversity is more dire than previously considered in light of accelerated forest fragmentation in the Amazon.
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Role of spatial and environmental factors in structuring vascular epiphyte communities in two neotropical ecosystems
Talitha Mayumi Francisco,Dayvid Rodrigues Couto,Dayvid Rodrigues Couto,Mário Luís Garbin,Mário Luís Garbin,Flora Misaki,Carlos R. Ruiz-Miranda +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that neutral and niche-based processes act simultaneously on the dynamics of vascular epiphyte species, but distinctly on the inselberg and cloud forest, as they promote their abundance and maintain their diversity in tropical systems.
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Neotropical White‐sand Forests: Origins, Ecology and Conservation of a Unique Rain Forest Environment
Paul V. A. Fine,Emilio M. Bruna +1 more
TL;DR: The taxonomic and geographic focus of these articles is impressive, with articles on terrestrial plants, epiphytes, insects, birds, and fungi based on fieldwork conducted in the Amazon Basin, the Guianas, and Brazil's Atlantic Forests as mentioned in this paper.
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Epiphytic Plants in a Changing World-Global: Change Effects on Vascular and Non-Vascular Epiphytes
Gerhard Zotz,Maaike Y. Bader +1 more
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Reconstructing the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoid legumes
Domingos Cardoso,R. T. Pennington,L. P. de Queiroz,James S. Boatwright,B.-E. Van Wyk,Martin F. Wojciechowski,Matt Lavin +6 more
TL;DR: The present matK phylogeny resolves the deep-branching relationships of the papilionoids with increased support for many clades, and suggests that taxonomic realignments of some genera and of numerous tribes are necessary.
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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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Quantifying dispersal and establishment limitation in a population of an epiphytic lichen
Silke Werth,Helene H. Wagner,Felix Gugerli,Rolf Holderegger,Daniela Csencsics,Jesse M. Kalwij,Christoph Scheidegger +6 more
TL;DR: This study exemplifies that care has to be taken to adequately separate the effects of dispersal limitation from a limitation of establishment and demonstrated substantial dispersal from other than local sources.
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The relationship between tree size and epiphyte species richness: testing four different hypotheses
TL;DR: Evidence is found that in the study area epiphyte communities are unsaturated, as the number of species increases with tree size and does not reach a ceiling, which supports the idea that the species–area relationship is not asymptotic.
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