This synthesis of the growing body of information from research on epiphytes and their relations with other tropical biota provides a comprehensive overview of basic functions, life history, evolution, and the place of epiphytes in complex tropical communities. Epiphytes comprise more than one-third of the tropical vascular flora in some tropical forests. Growing within tropical forest canopies, epiphytes are subject to severe environmental constraints, and their diverse adaptations make them a rich resource for studies of water balance, nutrition, reproduction and evolution.
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This book synthesizes the body of information from research on epiphytes and their relations with other tropical biota, and provides a comprehensive overview of basic functions, life history, evolution, and the place of epiphytes in complex tropical communities.
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This review is from: Vascular Epiphytes: General Biology and Related Biota (Cambridge Tropical Biology Series) (Paperback)
Simply the bible of epiphyte studies. Includes the list of all recorded species. Quite useful both for researchers and field workers.
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i'm doing my research about the tropical epiphytes. for your knowledge, the research is to fulfill the course need (Forestry Research) at faculty of forestry
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Columbus is credited with the first recorded comment on canopy-adapted vegetation; he wrote that tropical trees "have a great variety of branches and leaves, all of them growing from a single root" (Gessner 1956). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suspended humus, phytotelm bromeliads, primary hemiepiphytes, foliar conductance, nutritive ions, epiphyte nutrition, epiphyte occurrence, linata parabiotica, velamentous roots, atmospheric bromeliads, mistletoe foliage, canopy fluids, epiphyte biology, secondary hemiepiphytes, absorbing trichomes, epiphyte diversity, vegetative reduction, canopy flora, water balance mechanisms, epiphyte flora, vascular epiphytes, crown periphery, foliar trichomes, epiphyte communities, canopy habitats Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Columbus is credited with the first recorded comment on canopy-adapted vegetation; he wrote that tropical trees "have a great variety of branches and leaves, all of them growing from a single root" (Gessner 1956). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suspended humus, phytotelm bromeliads, primary hemiepiphytes, foliar conductance, nutritive ions, epiphyte nutrition, epiphyte occurrence, linata parabiotica, velamentous roots, atmospheric bromeliads, mistletoe foliage, canopy fluids, epiphyte biology, secondary hemiepiphytes, absorbing trichomes, epiphyte diversity, vegetative reduction, canopy flora, water balance mechanisms, epiphyte flora, vascular epiphytes, crown periphery, foliar trichomes, epiphyte communities, canopy habitats Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Florida, Costa Rican, After Benzing, Old World, South America, New World, United States, New Zealand, Rio Palenque, Taxa General, Central American, Rancho Grande, After Wallace, Amazonian Peru, Central Australia, Long Point, North America, After Nadkarni, Docters van Leeuwen, Humber Hill, Leo Creek, Quintana Roo, Shelly Beach, South Africa, West African New!
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