Pteridophyte species richness in Andean forests in Bolivia

By M. Kessler. Biodiversity and Conservation, 2001

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Response of vascular epiphyte diversity to different land-use intensities in a neotropical montane wet forest (2010, background): “Most epiphytic ferns and fern allies are xerophobic and their species richness is closely coupled with humidity (Kessler, 2001), suggesting a direct negative response to increased light levels, temperature and PET that result from forest disturbance (Laurance, 2004).”
Patterns in species richness and distribution of vascular epiphytes in Chiapas, Mexico (2003, background): “From altitudinal transects on Mt Kinabalu, Borneo and Carrasco, Bolivia, respectively, only thirty-seven and twenty-six Asplenium species have been reported, including terrestrial species (Kessler et al., 2001).”
Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia, Yasuní, Ecuador (2004, background): “…explicitly addressing biogeographical aspects of epiphytes (e.g. Gentry & Dodson, 1987a; Benzing, 1989; Kelly et al., 1994; Nieder et al., 1999; Kessler, 2001a; Wolf & Flamenco-S, 2003) are scarce, often based on data from only a very few study sites or restricted to a narrowly defined region.”
Diversity of dry forest epiphytes along a gradient of human disturbance in the tropical Andes (2009, background): “Species richness and abundance of ferns and bryophytes is closely coupled with humidity (Kessler 2001; Pharo et al. 2005).”
Large‐scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests (2004, background): “…& Lefkovitch, 1989, Bøgh, 1992, Kelly et al., 1994, Ibisch, 1996, Acebey & Krömer, 2001), including a few elevational transects (Sudgen & Robins, 1979, Cleef et al., 1984, Wolf, 1994, Hietz & Hietz-Seifert, 1995, Bussmann, 2001, Kessler, 2001, 2002a, Muñoz & Küper, 2001). los Andes ecuatorianos.”
Vertical stratification of vascular epiphytes in submontane and montane forest of the Bolivian Andes: the importance of the understory (2007, methodology): “Subplot size of 20 · 20 m2 corresponds roughly to crown size of large canopy trees in the study area and is similar to plot size employed in other plant diversity studies in Bolivian montane forests (e.g., Kessler 2000, 2001a, b; Bach 2004).”
Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes (2005, background): “On a regional scale, Kessler (2001b) and Kreft et al. (2004) have documented the increase of epiphyte species richness with increasing rainfall, even though Wolf & Flamenco-S (2003) found a decrease of epiphyte richness in the most humid habitats in Chiapas, Mexico.”
Patterns of diversity and range size of selected plant groups along an elevational transect in the Bolivian Andes (2001, background): “In a sample of 65 sites throughout the Bolivian Andes, pteridophyte endemism is strongly positively correlated to rainfall (Kessler 2001).”
The elevational gradient in Andean bird species richness at the local scale: a foothill peak and a high‐elevation plateau (2005, background): “However, Rahbek (1995) also noted that most studies had methodological problems because they did not account for the effect of sampling effort and/or area on patterns of species richness.”
Patterns of vascular plant diversity at continental to global scales (2007, background): “There are still many new species to be discovered, especially in the tropical humid mountain forests (see a case study from Bolivia, Kessler 2001).”
Phylogenetic diversity, trait diversity and niches: species assembly of ferns along a tropical elevational gradient (2011, methodology): “Because the major life forms of ferns, terrestrials and epiphytes not only differ in their elevational and morphological diversity patterns (Kessler, 2001; Kluge & Kessler, 2007), but also occupy different realms within the vegetation assemblages, we conducted our analyses separately for each life…”
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).”