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Positive community effects of nurse-plant shrubs along a tropical alpine elevation gradient: are they linked with plant water relations?
Shrubs are one of the most common plant growth forms acting as nurses, but their effects on community organization along elevation gradients and how...
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Nitrogen Addition Increases Freeze Resistance in Black Mangrove (Avicennia germinans) Shrubs in a Temperate-Tropical Ecotone
Low temperature stress is the primary factor determining the latitudinal limits of tropical plants. As the climate warms, tropical species are...
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Tropical Ecology and Deforestation
From the perspective of biological diversity, there are a few regions on Earth that can compare with the tropics in terms of sheer numbers of...
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Effects of nurse shrubs on symbioses between soil fungi and associated plants along a tropical alpine elevation gradient
Studies in alpine environments indicate that nurse plants can facilitate other species mainly through direct mechanisms (i.e., improvements in local...
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Biodiversity Status, Issues, and Challenges: Trees and Shrubs
The present chapter deals with the biodiversity status of India with special reference to trees and shrubs. A list of trees and shrubs has been...
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Southern Hot Tropical Biomes
The wet Tropics, home to the zonobiome E1, under the strong influence of the high tropical high temperatures and the Intertropical Convergence Zone...
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Vegetation diversity pattern during spring season in relation to topographic and edaphic variables in sub-tropical zone
BackgroundThe present study was conducted to explore the diversity pattern of spring vegetation under the influence of topographic and edaphic...
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Observed and dark diversity of plants’ life-forms are driven by climate and human impacts in a tropical dry forest
Species richness is the most commonly used metric to quantify biodiversity. However, examining dark diversity, the group of absent species which can...
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Keys to Families of Trees and Shrubs
This chapter includes keys which allow to assign a given individual to the proper family. It represents the second step of the identification process.
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Biodiversity and Conservation of Tropical Fruits in India
The diverse soil and climatic conditions of India permit growing of a large variety of tropical, subtropical and temperate fruits and nuts in...
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Leaf quality and macrofauna are more important than the presence of trees and shrubs in riparian vegetation for leaf litter breakdown in subtropical highland grassland soil systems
Leaf litter breakdown is a critical process in ecosystems, influencing food webs and biogeochemical cycles, particularly in inorganic soils such as...
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Endophytic species of Nigrospora from grasses and shrubs of Shadegan International Wetland, with new species and records from Iran
The “Shadegan International Wetland” (SIW) is one of the wetlands internationally recognized in the Ramsar convention. The vegetation of this wetland...
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The complete annotated plastome sequences of six genera in the tropical woody Polygonaceae
BackgroundThe Polygonaceae is a family well-known for its weeds, and edible plants, Fagopyrum (buckwheat) and Rheum (rhubarb), which are primarily...
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Tropical tree ectomycorrhiza are distributed independently of soil nutrients
Mycorrhizae, a form of plant–fungal symbioses, mediate vegetation impacts on ecosystem functioning. Climatic effects on decomposition and soil...
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Key to the Groups of Families of Trees and Shrubs
This chapter includes keys and is dedicated to trees and, to some extent, lianas. It represents the first step of the identification process. It...
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Assessing the impact of land use change on different components of plant diversity in a tropical montane cloud forest of Mexico
Worldwide, land use change is largely promoting intense biodiversity loss in many ecosystems, and Mexico is no exception to this. The information on...
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From tropical forest to agroecosystems: changes in functional and species diversity of lizards in Mexican Caribbean
The transformation of tropical forests to agricultural systems modifies the diversity of species. Species respond differentially to disturbance...
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Leaf nutrient dynamics of shrubs in a tropical dry deciduous forest in Rajasthan in North-West India
The leaf nutrient dynamics of shrubs was evaluated in a tropical dry deciduous forest in Rajasthan, North-West India (27°4′ to 28°4′N and 76°7′ to...
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Phytoremediation Using Tropical Wetlands: Are Temperate Treatment Wetlands Sound Models?
The use of wetlands to phytoremediate polluted waters is a practice that developed in temperate regions. This chapter explores the opportunities and...
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Cyclone–Fire Interactions Enhance Fire Extent and Severity in a Tropical Montane Pine Forest
Interactions between tropical cyclones and wildfires occur widely and can tip closed forests into open-canopy structures that initiate a ‘grass–fire’...
