Diversity and abundance of vascular epiphytes: a comparison of secondary vegetation and primary montane rain forest in the Venezuelan Andes

By W. Barthlott, Viviane Schmit-Neuerburg, J. Nieder, Stefan Engwald. Plant Ecology, 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Microclimate, light adaptation and desiccation tolerance of epiphytic bryophytes in two Venezuelan cloud forests (2006, background): “A detailed study of vascular epiphytes in this forest was made by Engwald (1999), and see Barthlott et al. (2001), and of the epiphytic bryophytes by León-Vargas (2001).”
Diversity and biogeography of vascular epiphytes in Western Amazonia, Yasuní, Ecuador (2004, background): “Studies on the community level document that even slight microclimatic differences in humidity have effects on the floristic composition of epiphyte communities (Sugden & Robins, 1979; Barthlott et al., 2001; Leimbeck & Balslev, 2001; Krömer, 2003).”
Diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes along an elevational gradient in the Andes (2005, background): “A similar trend is also evident in a study by Barthlott et al. (2001) from Venezuela, where the fraction of Polypodiaceae and Aspleniaceae relative to overall pteridophyte richness increased from 0.2 in natural forests to 0.3 in disturbed forests, 0.5 in secondary forests, and 1.0 in timber…”
Cryptogamic epiphytes in primary and recovering upper montane oak forests of Costa Rica – species richness, community composition and ecology (2005, background): “Recent studies have shown that species richness of epiphytes (vascular, non-vascular) in secondary forests is normally reduced as compared to primary forests (e.g., Turner et al. 1994; Barthlott et al. 2001; Acebey et al. 2002; Costa 1999).”
Microhabitat associations of vascular epiphytes in a wet tropical forest canopy (2015, background): “The lack of large trees and a well-developed humus layer in the inner crown early in succession likely explains the low diversity and absence of oldgrowth epiphyte species in secondary forests (Barthlott et al. 2001), even in old secondary forests >115 years of age (Woods & DeWalt 2013).”
Tropical rain forest fragmentation and its ecological and species diversity changes in southern Yunnan (2004, result): “The observation that epiphytes were fewer in the disturbed fragments, is similar to the results from Venezuela ( Barthlott et al. 2001 ).”
Diversity of dry forest epiphytes along a gradient of human disturbance in the tropical Andes (2009, background): “Secondary moist forests regenerating after clear-cutting generally show considerably reduced species numbers of epiphytes compared to mature forests (vascular plants: Hietz 1998; Barthlott et al. 2001; Krömer & Gradstein 2003; bryophytes: Acebey et al. 2003; Drehwald 2005; but see Larrea 1997; Holz ”
Epiphyte diversity and biomass loads of canopy emergent trees in Chilean temperate rain forests: A neglected functional component (2010, background): “If this pattern holds for Valdivian coastal forests, then spatially-dispersed older trees can become increasingly significant as reservoirs of biodiversity in the landscape, including epiphytes that are rare or absent from secondary forests (Barthlott et al., 2001).”
Epiphytic bromeliad communities in secondary and mature forest in a tropical premontane area (2006, background): “The lower diversity of epiphytic bromeliads in the secondary forests, when compared to the nearby mature forest (Tables 2 and 3), coincided with patterns described for vascular epiphytes from other neotropical areas (Barthlott et al. 2001; Krömer & Gradstein 2003; Wolf 2005).”