Variation in cloud immersion, not precipitation, drives vascular epiphyte leaf trait plasticity and water relations during an extreme drought.
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DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1833
Abstract: PREMISE Epiphytes are abundant in ecosystems such as tropical montane cloud forests where low-lying clouds are often in contact with vegetation. Climate projections for these regions include more variability in rainfall and an increase in… read more here.
Keywords: water; water relations; leaf; cloud ... See more keywords
Role of spatial and environmental factors in structuring vascular epiphyte communities in two neotropical ecosystems
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ppees.2021.125621
Abstract: Abstract The great heterogeneity of tropical systems challenges our understanding of how niche and neutral processes structure epiphyte communities. Dispersal, phorophyte identity and the environmental conditions created by phorophytes are the main determinants of vascular… read more here.
Keywords: diversity; size; epiphyte communities; vascular epiphyte ... See more keywords
Vascular epiphyte populations with higher leaf nutrient concentrations showed weaker resilience to an extreme drought in a montane cloud forest.
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DOI: 10.1111/plb.13474
Abstract: Leaf stoichiometry can characterize plant ecological strategies and correlate with plant responses to climate change. Although a large interspecific variability in leaf stoichiometry has been found across vascular epiphyte species, it remains unclear whether leaf… read more here.
Keywords: epiphyte populations; leaf stoichiometry; epiphyte; vascular epiphyte ... See more keywords