Ferns have a long geological record extending over millions of years, and they are
distributed in diverse environments worldwide; including swamps, coastal locations, open …

Mountains are the global centers of fern diversity and at the same time strongly affected by
climate change, raising the question of how fern species and communities will respond to …

Climate change is conjectured to endanger tropical species, particularly in biodiverse
montane regions, but accurate estimates of extinction risk are limited by a lack of empirical …

The threat of anthropogenic climate change has seen a renewed focus on understanding
contemporary patterns of species distribution. This is especially the case for the biota of …

The geographic distribution of species depends on their relationships with climate and on
the biotic interactions of the species. Ecological Niche Models (ENMs) mainly consider …

Landslides are common natural disturbances in tropical montane forests. While the
geomorphic drivers of landslides in the Andes have been studied, factors controlling post …

Vascular epiphytes are extraordinarily diverse in the tropical Andean region. Compared to
trees and terrestrial herbs, epiphytes are more vulnerable to forest alteration due to their …

Dew can represent an alternate water source in epiphytic bromeliads. However, the
physiological relevance of dew to withstand the dry season, within seasonal forests, is not …

Liverworts and mosses are a major component of the epiphyte flora of tropical montane
forest ecosystems. Canopy access was used to analyse the distribution and vertical …

Tropical montane cloud forests support abundant epiphytic vascular plant communities that
serve important ecosystem functions, but their reliance on atmospheric inputs of water may …