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    Vascular Epiphytes by Benzing, David H.;

    General Biology and Related Biota

    Series: Cambridge Tropical Biology Series;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 23 February 1990

    • ISBN 9780521266307
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages376 pages
    • Size 235x160x29 mm
    • Weight 711 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    This book synthesizes the body of information from research on epiphytes.

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    Long description:

    Epiphytes (plants which grow on other plants, not parasitically but for support), comprise more than one-third of the total vascular flora in some tropical forests. Growing within tropical forest canopies, epiphytes are subject to severe environmental constraints, and their diverse adaptations make them a rich resource for studies of water balance, nutrition, reproduction and evolution. This book synthesizes the body of information from research on epiphytes and their relations with other tropical biota, and provides a comprehensive overview of basic functions, life history, evolution, and the place of epiphytes in complex tropical communities. Tropical ecologists and zoologists as well as plant scientists will find this volume a useful guide to research on the twenty-five thousand species of epiphytes which root in the crowns of tropical trees.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface; Abbreviations; Glossary; 1. Epiphytism: a preliminary overview; 2. Photosynthesis; 3. Water balance; 4. Mineral nutrition; 5. Reproduction and life history; 6. Mistletoes; 7. Ecology; 8. Epiphyte occurrence; References; Author index; Subject index; Taxonomic index.

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