A case for studying biotic interactions in epiphyte ecology and evolution

Host tree traits in pasture areas affect forest and pasture specialist epiphyte species differently

(2021) João P. C. Elias et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Structure and robustness of the Neotropical ant‐gardens network under climate change

(2021) Jonas Morales‐Linares et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Consistent patterns of fungal communities within ant-plants across a large geographic range strongly suggest a multipartite mutualism

(2021) Melinda J. Greenfield et al.   MYCOLOGICAL PROGRESS

Making the most of your pollinators: An epiphytic fig tree encourages its pollinators to roam between figs

(2021) Siti Khairiyah Mohd Hatta et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Lowering the density: ants associated with the myrmecophyte Tillandsia caput-medusae diminish the establishment of epiphytes

(2021) Carmen Agglael Vergara-Torres et al.   AoB Plants

Phytophagous consumption by frogs inhabiting bromeliads from Atlantic Forest

(2021) Leandro T. Sabagh et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Hemiepiphytes revisited

(2021) Gerhard Zotz et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Seeing beyond the trees: a comparison of tropical and temperate plant growth forms and their vertical distribution

(2020) Michelle Elise Spicer et al.   ECOLOGY

Local extinction risk under climate change in a neotropical asymmetrically dispersed epiphyte

(2020) Miguel A. Acevedo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Community structure of vascular epiphytes: a neutral perspective

(2020) Thijs Janzen et al.   OIKOS

Bryophyte community diversity and structure associated with Asplenium auritum fern (Aspleniaceae) in a Brazilian Atlantic forest fragment

(2020) Libia Mayerly Cifuentes-Garcia et al.   REVISTA DE BIOLOGIA TROPICAL

Orchid Conservation – from theory to practice

(2020) Ryan D Phillips et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Natural Enemies and the Maintenance of Tropical Tree Diversity: Recent Insights and Implications for the Future of Biodiversity in a Changing World

(2020) Liza S. Comita et al.   ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN

Why are there so many bee‐orchid species? Adaptive radiation by intra‐specific competition for mnesic pollinators

(2020) Michel Baguette et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Macroevolution of defense syndromes in Ficus (Moraceae)

(2020) Jin Zhao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Cryptic interactions revisited from ecological networks: Mosses as a key link between trees and hummingbirds

(2020) Francisco E. Fontúrbel et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Relationships between Foliar Fungal Endophyte Communities and Ecophysiological Traits of CAM and C3 Epiphytic Bromeliads in a Neotropical Rainforest

(2020) Peter H. Tellez et al.   Diversity-Basel

Beyond the gardens: The extended mutualism from ant‐garden ants to nectary‐bearing plants growing in Amazon tree‐fall gaps

(2020) Camila Benedita da Silva‐Viana et al.   BIOTROPICA

In Vitro Symbiotic Germination: A Revitalized Heuristic Approach for Orchid Species Conservation

(2020) Galih Chersy Pujasatria et al.   Plants-Basel

Evaluating the structure of commensalistic epiphyte–phorophyte networks. A comparative perspective of biotic interactions

(2019) Carlos Naranjo et al.   AoB Plants

Bird Visitation to a High Andean Anthurium (Araceae) in Eastern Ecuador

(2019) Robert Bleiweiss et al.   FLORA

Microbial Composition and Wood Decomposition Rates Vary with Microclimate From the Ground to the Canopy in a Tropical Forest

(2019) Evan M. Gora et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Germination niches and seed persistence of tropical epiphytic orchids in an urban landscape

(2019) Muhammad Izuddin et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT RESEARCH

Terrestrial Gastropod Grazing on Macrolichens in a Northern Broadleaf–Conifer Forest

(2019) Ailís B. Clyne et al.   NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST

Widespread Biases in Ecological and Evolutionary Studies

(2019) Zachary W Culumber et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Mediation of stemflow water and nutrient availabilities by epiphytes growing above other epiphytes in a subtropical forest

(2019) Liang‐Chu Chen et al.   Ecohydrology

Structural heterogeneity of trees influences epiphyte distributions in a northern temperate rainforest

(2019) Carrie L. Woods et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Uncovering the Natural History of the Bromeligenous Frog Crossodactylodes izecksohni (Leptodactylidae, Paratelmatobiinae)

(2019) Rodrigo B. Ferreira et al.   South American Journal of Herpetology

The effect of Sika deer herbivory on epiphyte diversity changes

(2019) Yoshitaka Oishi et al.   BRYOLOGIST

When facilitation meets clonal integration in forest canopies

(2019) Hua‐Zheng Lu et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Epiphyll specialization for leaf and forest successional stages in a tropical lowland rainforest

(2019) Anna Mežaka et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Unraveling intricate interactions among atmospheric bromeliads with highly overlapping niches in seasonal systems

(2019) Cleber J.N. Chaves et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

The role of hummingbirds in the evolution and diversification of Bromeliaceae: unsupported claims and untested hypotheses

(2019) Michael Kessler et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Bird’s nest fern epiphytes facilitate herpetofaunal arboreality and climate refuge in two paleotropic canopies

(2019) Christa M. Seidl et al.   OECOLOGIA

Epiphyte associations and canopy soil volume: nutrient capital and factors influencing soil retention in the canopy

(2019) E. Victoriano‐Romero et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Rush hour at the Museum – Diversification patterns provide new clues for the success of figs ( Ficus L., Moraceae)

(2018) Sam Bruun-Lund et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The epiphytic habitat on a living host: reflections on the orchid–tree relationship

(2018) Hanne N Rasmussen et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Significant contribution of non-vascular vegetation to global rainfall interception

(2018) Philipp Porada et al.   Nature Geoscience

Secondary foundation species enhance biodiversity

(2018) Mads S. Thomsen et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Vertebrate florivory of vascular epiphytes: the case of a bromeliad

(2018) Y. Palacios-Mosquera et al.   BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY

Bryophyte Biogeography

(2018) J. Patiño et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Gastropod grazing may prevent reintroduction of declining N-fixing epiphytic lichens in broadleaved deciduous forests

(2018) Yngvar Gauslaa et al.   Fungal Ecology

Many broadly-shared mycobionts characterize mycorrhizal interactions of two coexisting epiphytic orchids in a high elevation tropical forest

(2018) Paulo Herrera et al.   Fungal Ecology

Generalist, settling moth pollination in the endemic South African twig epiphyte, Mystacidium pusillum Harv. (Orchidaceae)

(2017) Craig I. Peter et al.   FLORA

Pollination by nitidulid beetles in the hemi-epiphytic aroid Monstera lentii (Araceae: Monsteroideae)

(2017) Danyi Prieto et al.   FLORA

Ecosystem engineering by Fascicularia bicolor in the canopy of the South-American temperate rainforest

(2017) Gabriel Ortega-Solís et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Recent breakthroughs in metabolomics promise to reveal the cryptic chemical traits that mediate plant community composition, character evolution and lineage diversification

(2017) Brian E. Sedio   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Vertical patterns of epiphytic bryophyte diversity in a montane Nothofagus forest in the Chilean Andes

(2017) Daniela Mellado-Mansilla et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Bark peeling does not explain the distribution of epiphytes between six phorophyte species of a tropical dry forest of Mexico

(2017) Roberto F. Jiménez-Salmerón et al.   Plant Ecology and Evolution

Canopy soil bacterial communities altered by severing host tree limbs

(2017) Cody R. Dangerfield et al.   PeerJ

Interaction network of vascular epiphytes and trees in a subtropical forest

(2016) Sergio Javier Ceballos et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ode to Ehrlich and Raven or how herbivorous insects might drive plant speciation

(2016) Robert J. Marquis et al.   ECOLOGY

Foliar bacteria and soil fertility mediate seedling performance: a new and cryptic dimension of niche differentiation

(2016) Eric A. Griffin et al.   ECOLOGY

Gastropods slow down succession and maintain diversity in cryptogam communities

(2016) Steffen Boch et al.   ECOLOGY

Dispersal of bryophytes and ferns is facilitated by small mammals in the boreal forest

(2016) Marion Barbé et al.   ECOSCIENCE

Functional biology of parasitic plants: a review

(2016) Jakub Těšitel   Plant Ecology and Evolution

Life in the treetops: ecophysiological strategies of canopy epiphytes in a tropical montane cloud forest

(2015) Sybil G. Gotsch et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The effects of bryophyte communities on the establishment and survival of an epiphytic fern

(2015) Taiki Mizuno et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

The co-existence between DSE and AMF symbionts affects plant P pools through P mineralization and solubilization processes

(2015) I.F. Della Monica et al.   Fungal Ecology

Microhabitat associations of vascular epiphytes in a wet tropical forest canopy

(2015) Carrie L. Woods et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Multi-species competition experiments with peatland bryophytes

(2015) Daniel Udd et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Epiphyte community development throughout tree ontogeny: an island ontogeny framework

(2015) Amanda Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

A conceptual framework for the analysis of vascular epiphyte assemblages

(2015) Glenda Mendieta-Leiva et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Does structural parasitism by epiphytes exist? A case study between Tillandsia recurvata and Parkinsonia praecox

(2015) A. Flores-Palacios   PLANT BIOLOGY

A review and evaluation of forest canopy epiphyte roles in the partitioning and chemical alteration of precipitation

(2015) John T. Van Stan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Host specificity in vascular epiphytes: a review of methodology, empirical evidence and potential mechanisms

(2015) Katrin Wagner et al.   AoB Plants

First record of bat-pollination in the species-rich genus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae)

(2014) Pedro Adrián Aguilar-Rodríguez et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Biotic resistance and invasional meltdown: consequences of acquired interspecific interactions for an invasive orchid, Spathoglottis plicata in Puerto Rico

(2014) James D. Ackerman et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Are breeding system and florivory associated with the abundance ofTillandsiaspecies (Bromeliaceae)?

(2014) Octavio A. Orozco-Ibarrola et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Disturbance and clonal reproduction determine liana distribution and maintain liana diversity in a tropical forest

(2014) Alicia Ledo et al.   ECOLOGY

Mutualist-mediated effects on species' range limits across large geographic scales

(2014) Michelle E. Afkhami et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Experimental evidence of an increased leaf production in Prosopis after removal of epiphytes (Tillandsia)

(2014) Nicolás F. Soria et al.   FLORA

Epiphytes improve host plant water use by microenvironment modification

(2014) Daniel E. Stanton et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect effects of Tillandsia recurvata on Prosopis laevigata in the Chihuahua desert scrubland of San Luis Potosi, Mexico

(2014) Alejandro Flores-Palacios et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

How much of the world is woody?

(2014) Richard G. FitzJohn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evidence for Isolation-by-Habitat among Populations of an Epiphytic Orchid Species on a Small Oceanic Island

(2014) Bertrand Mallet et al.   PLoS One

The impact of mosses on the growth of neighbouring vascular plants, substrate temperature and evapotranspiration on an extensive green roof

(2014) Amy Heim et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Effects of leaf herbivory on the bromeliad Aechmea blanchetiana: a study of selective feeding by the scraper Acentroptera pulchella

(2013) Noa Magalhães et al.   Acta Botanica Brasilica

Nectar secretion on fern fronds associated with lower levels of herbivore damage: field experiments with a widespread epiphyte of Mexican cloud forest remnants

(2013) Suzanne Koptur et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

‘Hemiepiphyte’: a confusing term and its history

(2013) Gerhard Zotz   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Endophytic fungi from Peruvian highland and lowland habitats form distinctive and host plant-specific assemblages

(2013) Martin Unterseher et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Bromeliad-associated Reductions in Host Herbivory: Do Epiphytic Bromeliads Act as Commensalists or Mutualists?

(2013) Edd Hammill et al.   BIOTROPICA

Insect Herbivores and Leaf Damage along Successional and Vertical Gradients in a Tropical Dry Forest

(2013) Frederico S. Neves et al.   BIOTROPICA

The systematic distribution of vascular epiphytes - a critical update

(2013) Gerhard Zotz   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Does exogenous carbon extend the realized niche of canopy lichens? Evidence from sub-boreal forests in British Columbia

(2013) Jocelyn Campbell et al.   ECOLOGY

Evidence of maternal provisioning of alkaloid-based chemical defenses in the strawberry poison frogOophaga pumilio

(2013) Jennifer L. Stynoski et al.   ECOLOGY

Secondary foundation species as drivers of trophic and functional diversity: evidence from a tree–epiphyte system

(2013) Christine Angelini et al.   ECOLOGY

Amazon poison frogs (Ranitomeya amazonica) use different phytotelm characteristics to determine their suitability for egg and tadpole deposition

(2013) Erik H. Poelman et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Bioactive alkaloids in vertically transmitted fungal endophytes

(2013) Daniel G. Panaccione et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Spatial and temporal variability in positive and negative plant-bryophyte interactions along a latitudinal gradient

(2013) Simon W. Doxford et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Critical importance of large native trees for conservation of a rare Neotropical epiphyte

(2013) Tyler R. Kartzinel et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Piracy in the high trees: ectomycorrhizal fungi from an aerial ‘canopy soil’ microhabitat

(2013) David A. Orlovich et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

(2013) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Local Competition and Metapopulation Processes Drive Long-Term Seagrass-Epiphyte Population Dynamics

(2013) Delphine Lobelle et al.   PLoS One

Ecological Facilitation between Two Epiphytes through Drought Mitigation in a Subtropical Rainforest

(2013) Pei-Yu Jian et al.   PLoS One

Lichen species co-occurrence patterns along an edge-interior Mediterranean forest gradient

(2012) Rocío Belinchón et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Uptake of ant-derived nitrogen in the myrmecophytic orchid Caularthron bilamellatum

(2012) Christian Gegenbauer et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Rethinking Community Assembly through the Lens of Coexistence Theory

(2012) J. HilleRisLambers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The Conservation Value of Secondary Forests for Vascular Epiphytes in Central Panama

(2012) Carrie L. Woods et al.   BIOTROPICA

Relative growth rates of two epiphytic lichens, Lobaria pulmonaria and Hypogymnia occidentalis, transplanted within and outside of Populus dripzones

(2012) Yngvar Gauslaa et al.   Botany

Mechanisms Regulating Epiphytic Plant Diversity

(2012) Samuel F. Bartels et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN PLANT SCIENCES

Ferns in an Angiosperm World: Cretaceous Radiation into the Epiphytic Niche and Diversification on the Forest Floor

(2012) J. E. Watkins et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Population abundance, natural history, and habitat use by the arboreal marsupialDromiciops gliroidesin rural Chiloé Island, Chile

(2012) Juan L. Celis-Diez et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Signatures of autogenic epiphyte succession for an aspen chronosequence

(2012) Christopher J. Ellis et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Habitat conditions and host tree properties affect the occurrence, abundance and fertility of the endangered lichen Lobaria pulmonaria in wooded meadows of Estonia

(2012) Inga JÜRIADO et al.   LICHENOLOGIST

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

(2012) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

Fern and bryophyte endozoochory by slugs

(2012) Steffen Boch et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spider-fed bromeliads: seasonal and interspecific variation in plant performance

(2011) Ana Zangirólame Gonçalves et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Germination of Epiphytic Bromeliads in Forests and Coffee Plantations: Microclimate and Substrate Effects

(2011) Peter Hietz et al.   BIOTROPICA

Are vascular epiphytes nitrogen or phosphorus limited? A study of plant 15N fractionation and foliar N : P stoichiometry with the tank bromeliad Vriesea sanguinolenta

(2011) Wolfgang Wanek et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

High but not dry: diverse epiphytic bromeliad adaptations to exposure within a seasonally dry tropical forest community

(2011) C. Reyes-García et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The advantage of growing on moss: facilitative effects on photosynthetic performance and growth in the cyanobacterial lichen Peltigera rufescens

(2011) Claudia Colesie et al.   OECOLOGIA

Lichen epiphyte diversity: A species, community and trait-based review

(2011) Christopher J. Ellis   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Genetic variation in a tropical tree species influences the associated epiphytic plant and invertebrate communities in a complex forest ecosystem

(2011) S. E. Zytynska et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Analyzing the Spatial Structure of Broughtonia cubensis (Orchidaceae) Populations in the Dry Forests of Guanahacabibes, Cuba

(2010) José Raventós et al.   BIOTROPICA

Responses of boreal epiphytic bryophytes to different levels of partial canopy harvestThis paper is one of a selection of papers published as part of the special Schofield Gedenkschrift.

(2010) Richard T. Caners et al.   Botany

A hierarchical framework for investigating epiphyte assemblages: networks, meta-communities, and scale

(2010) K. C. Burns et al.   ECOLOGY

Effect of host-bark extracts on seed germination in Tillandsia recurvata, an epiphytic bromeliad

(2010) Susana Valencia-Díaz et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Breeding system and factors limiting fruit production in the nectarless orchid Broughtonia lindenii

(2010) Á. Vale et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Arbuscular mycorrhizas and dark septate endophytes in bromeliads from South American arid environment

(2010) M. A. Lugo et al.   SYMBIOSIS

Lichen-plant interactions

(2010) Sergio E. Favero-Longo et al.   Journal of Plant Interactions

Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions?

(2009) Douglas W. Schemske et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Orchid pollination: from Darwin to the present day

(2009) CLAIRE MICHENEAU et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Ant-mediated dispersal of asexual moss propagules

(2009) Jörgen Rudolphi   BRYOLOGIST

Influence of tree species on epiphytic macrolichens in temperate mixed forests of northern Italy

(2009) Juri Nascimbene et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Pronounced drought tolerance characterizes the early life stages of the epiphytic bromeliadTillandsia flexuosa

(2009) Maaike Y. Bader et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Gastropod grazing shapes the vertical distribution of epiphytic lichens in forest canopies

(2009) Johan Asplund et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Microbial communities of arboreal and ground soils in the Esquinas rainforest, Costa Rica

(2009) Elisabeth Pittl et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Growth in epiphytic bromeliads: response to the relative supply of phosphorus and nitrogen

(2009) G. Zotz et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

The evolution of antiherbivore defenses and their contribution to species coexistence in the tropical tree genus Inga

(2009) T. A. Kursar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Seedling establishment of vascular epiphytes on isolated and enclosed forest trees in an Andean landscape, Ecuador

(2008) Florian A. Werner et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Epiphytism in ferns: diversity and history

(2008) Jean-Yves Dubuisson et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

MOSS HARVEST TRUNCATES THE SUCCESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF EPIPHYTIC BRYOPHYTES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

(2008) JeriLynn E. Peck et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Deception above, deception below: linking pollination and mycorrhizal biology of orchids

(2008) R. J. Waterman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Network properties of arboreal plants: Are epiphytes, mistletoes and lianas structured similarly?

(2008) Ray Blick et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Reproductive success in the Mexican rewardless Oncidium cosymbephorum (Orchidaceae) facilitated by the oil-rewarding Malpighia glabra (Malpighiaceae)

(2008) Gustavo Carmona-Díaz et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Seed odor mediates an obligate ant-plant mutualism in Amazonian rainforests

(2008) E. Youngsteadt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global Warming, Elevational Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics

(2008) R. K. Colwell et al.   SCIENCE