Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia, Yasuní, Ecuador

By H. Kreft, Nils Köster, Wolfgang Küper, J. Nieder, W. Barthlott. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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The vascular epiphytes of a lowland forest in Panama—species composition and spatial structure (2008, background): “Freiberg (1999) registered 74 epiphytes on a single Virola michelii tree in French Guyana (45 m a.s.l.), Kreft et al. (2004) report 81 species in Ecuadorian Amazonia at 230 m a.s.l., while only up to 12 species were found in a Amazonian lowland forest in Venezuela (Nieder et al. -3 3 -4…”
Ecuador’s Yasuní Biosphere Reserve: a brief modern history and conservation challenges (2009, background): “In addition, the park contains at least 43 regionally endemic amphibians, birds, and mammals (i.e., species largely restricted to the Napo Moist Forests ecoregion) (Bass et al 2009).”
Species richness and structure of three Neotropical bat assemblages (2008, background): “The 1.5 million ha of primary rainforest surrounding the station consist of terra firme forest, varzea forest, palm swamps, small oxbow lakes and streams at an elevation of 190–270 m above sea level (Kreft et al., 2004).”
Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes (2005, background): “Orchid species typically occur at low densities and often have small ranges (Nieder et al., 1999), leading to high relative values at a regional level, e.g. 62% for all of Peru (Ibisch et al., 1996), and lower values at local scales, e.g. 45% at single sites in Ecuador (Kreft et al., 2004).”
Diversity of dry forest epiphytes along a gradient of human disturbance in the tropical Andes (2009, background): “The small number of epiphytic taxa indicates that the study area is a marginal habitat for epiphytes and seems to confi rm the importance of humidity as a driver of epiphyte species richness (Gentry & Dodson 1987a; Wolf 1993; Kreft et al. 2004).”
The significance of geographic range size for spatial diversity patterns in Neotropical palms (2006, background): “This highlights the importance of the foothills of the northern Andes and the Mesoamerican cordilleras as cradles for the high diversity of the Neotropics (Gentry 1982a, 1986, Kreft et al. 2004).”
Reasons for an outstanding plant diversity in the tropical Andes of southern Ecuador. (2009, background): “Furthermore, a “rainfall-diversity hypothesis”, first stated by Gentry & Dodson (1987) and recently reported by Kreft et al. (2004), seems to address a driving force for epiphyte diversity and possibly also for terrestrial ferns (Kessler 2001).”
Large‐scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests (2004, background): “This is confirmed by numerous local studies, some of them referring to study sites included in the present study (Ingram et al., 1996, Nieder et al., 1999, Schmit-Neuerburg, 2002, Kreft et al., 2004).”