Monteverde : Ecology and Conservation of a Tropical Cloud Forest
Figure 3.12. (top) Distribution of the number of species of lianas by plant family in Monteverde. Figure 3.13. (left) Leaves and ...
Figure 3.14. Distribution of the number of species of epiphytes by plant family in Monteverde. species that can grow there, and ...
Figure 3.15. Flower of Psittacanthus sp. (Loranthaceae), a parasitic shrub pollinated by humming- birds. Photograph byStephan In ...
plant material. They usually lack chlorophyll and do not photosynthesize. The Burmanniaceae are terres- trial saprophytes relate ...
Monteverde with a ropey, open trunk. However, on the Atlantic slope it commonly reaches maturity as a hemiepiphytic shrub. Ficus ...
Figure 3.17. Tree ferns (Cyatheaceae). Photograph by Nathaniel T. Wheelwright. lack them in the canopy. An amazing world of high ...
Figure 3.18. Fungi of Monteverde. Photograph by Mitch Valburg. shady to support grasses. The grasslike Uncinia hamata (Cyperacea ...
Figure 3.19. The escaped ornamental, Impatiens walleriana, in flower with light- tolerant ferns along the road in the Monteverde ...
Figure 3.20. The bright flowers of Blakea scarlatina (Melastomataceae), which occurs in Penas Blancas, at the Poco Sol field sta ...
although the timing and length of flowering and fruit- ing of a species vary from year to year (as do weather patterns). The alt ...
verde pastures, these species remain leafless for a month or two, but in the forest they leaf out within a few weeks. In the San ...
wright, "Sex Ratios," pp. 87-88, and Wheelwright, "A Hypothesis," pp. 281-283). In contrast, demographic studies have been commo ...
of epiphytes and ferns in Monteverde and La Selva than at the other sites, although this is in part due to more thorough collect ...
(e.g., Gymnosporia haberiana, Celastraceae, an en- demic of the Cordilleras de Tilaran and Guanacaste with its only congeners in ...
taxonomists who delivered plant identifications over the last 15 years were essential for learning the Monteverde flora. Mike Gr ...
WHY STRANGLER FIGS DONT STRANGLE STRANGLER FIGS Jonathan H+Tttus trangler figs (Ficus spp.) are trees that germi- nate in soil c ...
The fig enigma remains unsolved. The possibility that pathogens reduce germination and kill seedlings near adult congeners shoul ...
adaptations for water storage, and in their ability to absorb and retain airborne nutrients through rain, mist, and dust. Wet ne ...
endemic bromeliad species. The family's distribution and ecology in Costa Rica has been presented in Burt- Utley and Utley (1977 ...
or tissue culture using aesthetically superior clones as parent stock. Monteverde would provide the ideal climate for production ...
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