Abstract Background and Scope The epiphytic life form characterizes almost 10% of all
vascular plants. Defined by structural dependence throughout their life and their non …

For more than three decades, major efforts in sampling and analyzing tree diversity in South
America have focused almost exclusively on trees with stems of at least 10 and 2.5 cm …

Premise of research. In ecosystems where they are common, vascular epiphytes usually
interact positively with both their hosts and other epiphytes. However, there are no …

Epiphytes typically exhibit clustered distribution patterns, but predicting the spatial variation
of their distribution at fine scales has long been a challenge. Taking advantage of a canopy …

As climate change leads to increasing temperatures, tropical dry seasons are expected to
become more severe. An overall intensification of drought events may strongly affect …

β‐diversity patterns (the compositional variations across sites) and their drivers are the
major concerns of biodiversity research and conservation practices, whereas such …

There is evidence to suggest that vascular epiphytes experience low competition for
resources (light, water, and nutrients) compared to terrestrial plants. We tested the …

Epiphytes are a unique group of plants that live nonparasitically on other plants (“hosts”) and
constitute approximately one-fifth of Neotropical vascular plant diversity. However, the …

Earth's biodiversity continues to change rapidly through the Anthropocene, including
widespread reordering of species in space, and time,. A common expectation of this …

The community stability is the main ability to resist and be resilient to climate changes. In a
world of climate warming and melting glaciers, alpine gravel encroachment was occurring …