Work toward this book spans almost half a century. I started work on liverworts of Colombia
in 1970–71 during my Ph. D. study at the University of Cincinnati. My advisor, Margaret H …

The mycorrhizal state of epiphytic orchids has been controversially discussed, and the state
and mycobionts of the pleurothallid orchids, occurring abundantly and with a high number of …

A tropical mountain ecosystem in one of the" hottest" biodiversity hotspots worldwide was
investigated by some 30 research teams of numerous disciplines in the natural and social …

A transect of 47 mature trees was studied within an Atlantic rain-forest plot in northeastern
Brazil to determinate effects of phorophyte specificity and environmental parameters vs …

We analysed patterns of habitat and microhabitat preferences of 19 families (comprising 135
genera and 950 species) of crustose, corticolous lichens in Costa Rica (Arthoniaceae …

The abundance of epiphytes is one of the striking characteristics of moist tropical montane
forests. Our recent studies in South America show that deforestation may lead to major …

We sampled the diversity of epiphytes (lichens, bryophytes, vascular plants) and moths
(Geometridae, Arctiidae) in mature and recovering forest and in open vegetation in the …

Question: Disturbance effects on dry forest epiphytes are poorly known. How are epiphytic
assemblages affected by different degrees of human disturbance, and what are the driving …

Based on a study of 22 sites in northeastern Brazil, including the three main vegetation
types, coastal Mata Atlântica (Zona da Mata), Caatinga and Brejos de Altitude (rain forest …

As part of a larger systematic and taxonomic revision of the genus Sticta in the northern
Andes, several species were discovered forming green algal and cyanobacterial …