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ArticlePlants (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Diverging Elevational Patterns of Tree vs. Epiphyte Species Density, Beta Diversity, and Biomass in a Tropical Dry Forest.

Florian A Werner, Jürgen Homeier

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Article in Plants (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Florian A WernerFunctional Ecology, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Carl-von-Ossietzkystraße 9-11, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0009-3332-1090
Jürgen HomeierFaculty of Resource Management, HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Daimlerstraße 2, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5676-3267

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft HO 3296/2-2 and 3296/6-2Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft WE 4551/1-2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is evidence to suggest that vascular epiphytes experience low competition for resources (light, water, and nutrients) compared to terrestrial plants. We tested the hypothesis that low resource competition may lead to higher nestedness among vascular epiphyte assemblages compared to trees. We studied the species composition and biomass of epiphytes and trees along an elevation gradient in a tropical dry forest in SW Ecuador. Both life-forms were inventoried on 25 plots of 400 m

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alpha diversitybeta diversitybiomassbiotic interactionscompetitiondeterminants of nestednessEcuadorspecies richnessspecies turnoverTumbes–Piura dry forest

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PMID39339530
PMCPMC11434910

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