Large‐scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests

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

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Vascular epiphyte distribution patterns: explaining the mid‐elevation richness peak (2006, background): “Hemi-epiphyte diversity is in fact lower at mid-elevations than in the lowlands (Küper et al. 2004), suggesting that the high species richness found at the lowland sites is probably influenced by hemi-epiphytes.”
Global Centers of Vascular Plant Diversity (2005, background): “In Ecuador they contribute 30 % to the country’s flora, and 35 % of the endemic plants of Ecuador are epiphytes (JØRGENSEN and LEÓN-YÁNEZ 1999, VALENCIA et al. 2000, KÜPER et al. 2004).”
Elevational species richness patterns for vascular plants on Mount Kinabalu, Borneo (2006, result): “Similar results were found in two studies of neotropical epiphytes (Küper et al., 2004; Krömer et al., 2005; Cardelús et al., 2006).”
Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia, Yasuní, Ecuador (2004, background): “A hump-shaped relationship between altitude and species richness with a peak at mid-elevations in Andean forests has been frequently reported (Gentry & Dodson, 1987b; Kessler, 2000; Küper 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).”
Mountains, climate and niche heterogeneity explain global patterns of fern diversity (2021, background): “…(Schuettpelz & Pryer, 2009; Testo & Sundue, 2018), nearly perhumid conditions, due to significant water input from ‘horizontal precipitation’ (Vogelmann, 1973), allow for the persistence of a diverse vascular epiphyte flora in tropical cloud forests (Cardelús et al., 2006; Küper et al., 2004).”
The effect of area on local and regional elevational patterns of species richness (2011, unknown): “, 2005; Oommen & Shanker, 2005), vascular epiphytes (Küper et al., 2004; Krömer et al., 2005; Cardelús et al., 2006; Hemp, 2011), ferns (Hemp, 2001; Bhattarai et al.”