10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EPIPHYTISM»
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Tropical Forest Canopies: Ecology and Management
It has been estimated that 24 t861 or more vascular plant species are epiphytes
tKress 1986t. which constitute a major part tperhaps as much as 10%l of the
global plant diversity. Holo-epiphytism degrees ti.e.. the percentages of epiphyte
...
K. Eduard Linsenmair, 2001
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Air Plants: Epiphytes and Aerial Gardens
Not replayed during a single life cycle is a subsequent change that amounted to
crossing another adaptive threshold, this time from secondary hemi-epiphytism to
holo-epiphytism. Complete departure from the ground emerged this third way ...
3
Agroecology: Ecological Processes in Sustainable Agriculture
Epiphytism. When one organism lives on the body of another without drawing
any nutrition from it, an addition interference is occurring because the host is
adding a physical structure to the environment that is providing another organism
with ...
Stephen R. Gliessman, Eric Engles, 1998
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Nineteenth International Seaweed Symposium: Proceedings of ...
In the case of Macrocystis, epiphytism is not a major issue and only slight cover of
bryozoans on the thalli could be found. On the other hand, we have been able to
control epiphytism on Gracilaria. In the case of this red alga, repeated cuts of ...
Michael A. Borowitzka, 2009
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Vascular Epiphytes: General Biology and Related Biota
1. Epiphytism: a. preliminary. overview. Historical notes 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 ...
6
Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation
Obligate twig epiphytism in orchids Systematic distribution of obligate twig
epiphytism Among orchids, genera in at least three subtribes are restricted to
these smallest branches (Chase 1986b, 1987b), including pantropical
Angraecinae, ...
Thomas J. Givnish, Kenneth Jay Sytsma, 2000
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Seaweed Ecology and Physiology
In all these examples, the influences of external factors, especially abiotic factors,
are apparent. 3.1.2 Epiphytism and allelopathy In the "space race," one solution
is to grow as an epiphyte. Epiphytism is a common way of life, though relatively ...
Christopher S. Lobban, 1994
Taxonomists suggest positive relationship between speciation and epiphytism.
Big families with substantial epiphytic and terrestrial memberships like Araceae,
Bromeliaceae, and Orchidaceae include numerous genera, many of the largest
of ...
Margaret Lowman, H. Bruce Rinker, 2004
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Principles of Plant Physiology
Thus C. S. Gager (Fundamentals of Botany, Philadelphia, 1910) distinguishes
four types of symbiosis : (1) disjunctive or social symbiosis, (2) epiphytism, (8)
mutualism, (4) parasitism. Disjunctive or social symbiosis may be nutritive or ...
10
Coastal Dunes: Ecology and Conservation
In this chapter we will focus on the most studied plant-plant interactions of the
literature on coastal dunes: facilitation, competition, and epiphytism. We will
review the information reported in the literature and will include our own data, to
test the ...
M. L. Martínez, Norbert P. Psuty, 2004
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EPIPHYTISM»
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Bromeliads may actually protect fruit trees from pest damage
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