{"product_id":"effects-of-human-disturbance-on-tropical-montane-epiphyte-assemblages-studies-from-the-ecuadorian-andes-von-florian-a-werner","title":"Effects of Human Disturbance on Tropical Montane Epiphyte Assemblages","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe present dissertation aims at contributing to our understanding of the processes that determine epiphyte diversity in anthropogenic landscapes. At a dry forest site, epiphytic bryophytes responded sensitively to human disturbance, but vascular epiphytes did not. At a moist forest site, vascular epiphyte assemblages on isolated remnant trees were impoverished markedly and strongly biased to xerotolerant taxa. Field-experimental work at this site could show that this was related to 1) strongly increased mortality of established plants on isolated remnant trees following their isolation in clear-cuts, and 2) reduced and compositionally biased establishment on isolated trees. Evidence is presented to suggest that growth conditions (especially microclimate) are a more decisive predictor of epiphyte communities in disturbed habitats at these sites than dispersal constraints. The response of epiphyte communities to disturbance may further vary with mesoclimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783838116464\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStudies from the Ecuadorian Andes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783838116464","offer_id":39441783062621,"sku":"9783838116464","price":79.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/2f8d256b-60f4-407c-aeac-025f2db24bbc.jpg?v=1777960222","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/effects-of-human-disturbance-on-tropical-montane-epiphyte-assemblages-studies-from-the-ecuadorian-andes-von-florian-a-werner","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}