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Role of Spatial and Environmental Factors in Structuring Vascular Epiphyte Communities in Two Neotropical Ecosystems by Talitha Mayumi Francisco; Dayvid Rodrigues Couto; Mário Luís Garbin; Flora Misaki; Carlos Rámon Ruiz-Miranda is a Agricultural and Biological Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Role of Spatial and Environmental Factors in Structuring Vascular Epiphyte Communities in Two Neotropical Ecosystems about?
The great heterogeneity of tropical systems challenges our understanding of how niche and neutral processes structure epiphyte communities. Dispersal, phorophyte identity and the environmental conditions created by phorophytes are the main determinants of vascular epiphyte structure and diversity. However, these forces comprise multiple causal factors that need to be decomposed to address the complex patterns of independent and confounded effects acting upon epiphyte communities. We tested the hypothesis that the environment created by phorophytes (size, bark characteristics, microenvironmental conditions, and substrate type) is more important than phorophyte species identity and space in determining the structure of epiphyte communities, with phorophyte size being a major determinant within the environmental component. We also expected larger phorophytes to exhibit greater epiphyte richness and diversity. The study was carried out on an inselberg within a semi-deciduous montane forest and a cloud forest in southeastern Brazil. Partial redundancy analysis was used to hierarchically decompose the relative abundances of vascular epiphytes into three components: association with parti
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- Author
- Talitha Mayumi Francisco; Dayvid Rodrigues Couto; Mário Luís Garbin; Flora Misaki; Carlos Rámon Ruiz-Miranda
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)