Background Seedling recruitment is essential to the sustainability of any plant population.
Due to the minute nature of seeds and early-stage seedlings, orchid germination in situ was …

Background Conservation through reserves alone is now considered unlikely to achieve
protection of plant species necessary to mitigate direct losses of habitat and the pervasive …

Abstract Information on the degree of host specificity is fundamental for an understanding of
the ecology of structurally dependent plants such as vascular epiphytes. Starting with the …

Epiphytic angiosperms represent ca. 10% of the world's flowering plants and are key
elements in tropical forests. Here we synthesize the available literature on their population …

Next to its well-described ecological advantages, clonal growth in plants may incur fitness
costs, which are associated with the effects of typically large clonal individuals on the …

Neutral genetic markers have been employed in several ways to understand seed dispersal
patterns in natural and human modified landscapes. Genetic differentiation among spatially …

The Mediterranean flora is spectacularly rich in orchid species that have evolved remarkable
adaptations to their environment. Orchids have complex and delicate interactions with their …

Insights into processes that lead to the distribution of genetic variation within plant species
require recognition of the importance of both pollen and seed movement. Here we …

In natural plant populations, fine‐scale spatial genetic structure can result from limited gene
flow, selection pressures or historical events, but the role of each factor is in general hard to …

The population dynamics of the epiphytic orchid Aspasia principissa, growing in the moist
tropical forest of Barro Colorado Island, Panama, were studied from 1997 until 2004. Using …