Microclimatic patterns correlate with the distribution of epiphyllous bryophytes in a tropical lowland rain forest in Costa Rica

Journal of Tropical Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 321-330

  Sonnleitner, Michaela ^a   Dullinger, Stefan ^b   Wanek, Wolfgang ^a   Zechmeister, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Vienna Institute for Nature Conservation and Analyses   (Austria)

Author keywords

Hemispherical photography; Humidity fluctuations; Indicator species analysis; Lejeuneaceae; Light availability; Liverworts; Neotropics; Phyllosphere

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FOREST CANOPY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOST PLANT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; LIVERWORT; MICROCLIMATE; PHYLLOSPHERE; RAINFOREST; RELATIVE HUMIDITY;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ASPLUNDIA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CARLUDOVICA; COSTUS; COSTUS LAEVIS; DIEFFENBACHIA CONCINNA; LEJEUNEACEAE; MARCHANTIOPHYTA;

EID: 69849089266     PISSN: 02664674     EISSN: 14697831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266467409006002     Document Type: Article

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