Sentences with word «epiphytes»

Woods has counted 65 species of epiphytes in a single tree, each one vying for nutrients and space in a highly complex and competitive system.

The lab built the prototype with startup Epiphyte as part of a 100 - day development project.

You will also see the tall emergent trees, delicate orchids, and the bromeliads and other epiphytes clinging to the branches.

Researcher Shannon Young, part of a team assessing the impacts of pollution on the rainforest canopy, measures treetop - dwelling plants called epiphytes in a Lecythis ampla tree in Costa Rica.

The lab built the prototype with startup Epiphyte as part of a 100 - day development project.

Just like you'd first test a new stain remover on an inconspicuous part of your favorite jacket, the researchers want to test how an influx of nutrients will affect epiphytes, effects that Cardelùs predicts will preface changes throughout the rest of the forest.

See the bromeliads and epiphytes clinging to the trees as you explore the incredible area.

Seagrass beds are huge feeding grounds, and chances are that you will come upon huge sting rays feeding on the bottom, and schools of parrot fish and hogfish grazing on epiphytes growing on the seagrass.

Edan Yago (London) is the CEO and Founder of Epiphyte Corporation.

Since epiphytes are cut off from the rich pool of forest floor nutrients, each species has to extract what it needs from the air, rainwater and scant canopy soil, with hundreds of plants tapping into the same 1 - inch acidic layer that forms from decomposing organic material.

Symbiotic mycorrhizae in the root system boost the growth of green gold, endophytic fungi live in tissues, many epiphytes cover the surfaces of trees and saprotrophic fungi recycle the nutrients of dead trees.

The results revealed that, «over the course of the past few million years, partnerships between epiphytes and ants have broken down at least 12 times,» Renner says.

Fucus suffered from both, thermal stress and intensified overgrowth by epiphytes.

Givnish says it's difficult to disentangle the effect of mountain - climbing from tree - climbing, because the vast majority of mountain species are also epiphytes.

This shift opened up many new areas to colonize and new environmental conditions; the rate of net diversification increased 8.8 % for epiphytes.

By 35 million years ago, many had become epiphytes, plants that cling to trees.

This past November researchers published the first orchid genome, for the tropical epiphyte Phalaenopsis equestris.

Amborella's epiphyte load, propensity to produce suckers from wounds, and low rate of mitochondrial DNA loss probably all contribute to the high level of foreign DNA in its mitochondrial genome.

This is a boardwalk with plenty of time for photographs of the 600 -800-year-old epiphyte.

The environment is unique with mosses covering the trunks of trees, fast moving rivers, orchids cling to the branches, and epiphytes dotting the tall trees.

Meanwhile the same shapes and materials proliferate like epiphytes in Westra's black - and - white, analogue images.

Panoramic view of the interwoven structures of Epiphyte Chamber, an immersive installation for the Aleph Exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, 2013.

So, the conference will involve US speaker Edan Yago, CEO at Epiphyte.

I read a report on Cerulean Warbler from Venezuela, where it is said that the old shade trees are being cleaned from Bromeliads and other epiphytes, as it increases moisture and risk of mold.

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Indicators specific to maintaining shade cover include percent cover, canopy tree diversity and native species benchmarks, and preservation of epiphytes and vines.

Cardelùs, of Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., and her longtime co-researcher, Carrie Woods, want to know how two pollutants in particular — nitrogen and phosphorus — will affect epiphytes.

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Most that was there 6 - 8 years ago has been replaced with fast growing Inga and Albizia as shade trees species that carry no epiphytes and less leaf cover.

Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans) prefers gallery forest and older second growth, and forages on large trees by probing the bark, epiphytes, mossy clumps, and vines — which wouldn't be left on trees in intensively managed coffee farms.

Pruning of the overstory and the removal of epiphytes is discouraged, and buffer zones are encouraged.

Epiphytes, which support many of the canopy's wildlife and plants in one way or another, live at the interface between the atmosphere and the rainforest.

Their hollows and crevices provide shelter for myriad animals and their trunks and branches can become gardens, festooned with ferns, orchids, bromeliads and other epiphytes, coated with mosses and lichens and draped with vines.

Cardelùs remembers the first time she climbed a tree and realized the vastness of the epiphyte community.

Every summer during the study, which concluded in 2014, Cardelùs, Woods and a team of students spent countless hours suspended in midair, cataloging and sampling hundreds of epiphytes and the canopy soil they grow in.

The tree limb she's straddling is thick with epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — and they're the reason she's come to this dizzying study site at the La Selva Biological Station in northern Costa Rica.

These epiphytes form hollow tubers, known as domatia, with preformed entrance holes, which give access to a network of galleries that provide the ants with protected nesting space.

But snails, isopods and amphipods were not able to graze these epiphytes because they suffered from the increased temperature.

Scientists climbed several rare and endangered tree species on Penang Hill to document the orchids, ferns, and epiphytes (or air plants) thriving at such heights and to press leaf samples for further study.

The flowering orchids, vermilions and epiphytes they support are the chief source of nectar for the Mangrove Hummingbird.

Next, hike the Escalonia Cloud Forest Trail, home to epiphytes, orchids, ferns and tropical hummingbirds.

As the visitor walks into the forests overgrown with lichens, ferns, and other epiphytes, it is time to listen carefully for the sound of heavy footsteps and the sound of shrubs being slowly crushed as the tortoises make their way through the brush.

Banana trees mix in with the pines, epiphytes and corn fields.

Palms, ferns orchids, vines, epiphytes and stunningly beautiful butterflies are just some examples.