ReviewAnnals of botany2023
CAM plants: their importance in epiphyte communities and prospects with global change.
Review in Annals of botany, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Limited drought tolerance in the neotropical seasonally dry forest plants impairs future species richness.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Persistent Habitat Instability and Patchiness, Sexual Attraction, Founder Events, Drift and Selection: A Recipe for Rapid Diversification of Orchids.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Network analyses show horizontal and vertical distribution of vascular epiphytes on their hosts in a fragment of cloud forest in Central Mexico.Journal of plant research · 2024Article
- Differential Species Richness and Ecological Success of Epiphytes and Hemiepiphytes of Neotropical Araceae and Cyclanthaceae.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Atmospheric CO2 decline and the timing of CAM plant evolution.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) at the crossroads: a special issue to honour 50 years of CAM research by Klaus Winter.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- Epiphytic CAM bromeliads indicate vulnerability of tropical forest communities to climate change.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- The CAM lineages of planet Earth.Annals of botany · 2023Article
- A new approach to an old problem: how to categorize the habit of ferns and lycophytes.Annals of botany · 2023Article
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Abstract
background and scopeThe epiphytic life form characterizes almost 10 % of all vascular plants. Defined by structural dependence throughout their life and their non-parasitic relationship with the host, the term epiphyte describes a heterogeneous and taxonomically diverse group of plants. This article reviews the importance of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) among epiphytes in current climatic conditions and explores the prospects under global change. RESULTS AND
conclusionsWe question the view of a disproportionate importance of CAM among epiphytes and its role as a 'key innovation' for epiphytism but do identify ecological conditions in which epiphytic existence seems to be contingent on the presence of this photosynthetic pathway. Possibly divergent responses of CAM and C3 epiphytes to future changes in climate and land use are discussed with the help of experimental evidence, current distributional patterns and the results of several long-term descriptive community studies. The results and their interpretation aim to stimulate a fruitful discussion on the role of CAM in epiphytes in current climatic conditions and in altered climatic conditions in the future.
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