Climate and land-use changes have driven the dominance of native herbaceous plants in
degraded tropical forests, leading to losses in biodiversity and ecosystem services …

In the tropical dry forest of the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, as in many parts of the
Neotropics, deforested areas have been colonized by the highly competitive invasive …

Bracken (Pteridum arachnoideum) is an invasive fern species that slows or inhibits forest
regeneration over vast areas worldwide, affecting biodiversity, ecosystem functions and …

Lycophytes and ferns display dual life-history traits including a cryptogam (spore) and
spermatophyte (vascular bundle) form, which can be attributed to their specific evolutionary …

Although fire occurrence plays a central role in the dominance of the super-dominant
bracken fern Pteridium arachnoideum in Neotropical forests, it is unclear whether this …

石松类及蕨类植物在高等植物中处于比较特殊的进化与系统发育地位, 同时具有孢子植物(孢子)
与种子植物(维管束) 的双重特征. 附生蕨类植物是蕨类植物中占据独特生境的一个大类群 …

Tropical montane forests are diverse ecosystems often affected by uncontrolled human-
induced fires causing large deforested areas. After fires, Pteridium spp. ferns (bracken) …

Clonal growth can be especially advantageous in spatially heterogeneous environments
and some clonal plants are highly invasive or superdominant, especially in disturbed …

Woody plant encroachment (WPE) is a process that lead to the transformation of savanna
environments into forests, and in the threatened Central Brazilian savanna (locally called …

Purpose: The potential impact of climate change can lead to a reduction of up to 46% in the
distribution of ferns within suitable habitats. In this study, we employed predictive models for …