There has been an observed increase in the frequency of days with no mist during the dry season in Monteverde (Pounds et al. 1999). This trend towards an increasingly dry environment could have detrimental effects on epiphytic orchids. The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of mist level as well as mist frequency and branch direction on orchid abundance in 12 Daphnopsis americana (Lauraceae) host trees. Mist collectors were placed on 24 sample branches within the first horizontal angle of primary branches and mist was collected for eight days from all directions. Abundance counts of total orchids as well as the subtribe Pleurothallidinae were conducted on the first 1.5 ms of all sample branches. Northeastern branches rece...
Orchid distribution and abundance are likely functions of both abiotic and biotic factors. Forty hos...
Increasing periods of consecutive dry days, upward altitudinal shifts in orographic cloud formation,...
A large population of the fully mycoheterotrophic orchid, Corallorhiza striata var. vreelandii, was ...
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the decrease in mist frequency observed in Montev...
I examined how the reproduction and fitness of the orchid, Scaphyglottis acostaei depends on the wat...
The lifting of the cloud bank due to climate change in the Monteverde cloud forest has already cause...
Tropical cloud forests like that found in Monteverde, Costa Rica rely heavily on daily precipitatio...
Epiphytes sequester required nutrients and moisture from mist; the remaining moisture is then releas...
It has been observed that epiphytic orchids are less abundant on trees of the genus Quercus (Fagacea...
The locations and densities of epiphytic orchids and bromeliads growing on host trees are influenced...
Ten recently fallen trees in the Lower Montane Wet Forest (1550-1650 m) and Lower Montane Rain Fores...
This experiment compares stomata density of the epiphytic Pleurothallis aristata and Maxillaria sp. ...
The purpose of this study was to test whether there is a difference in the number of open and closed...
10 pagesThis experiment compares stomata density of the epiphytic Pleurothallis aristata and Maxilla...
Research in forest canopies has been restricted by access difficulties for a long time, however in t...
Orchid distribution and abundance are likely functions of both abiotic and biotic factors. Forty hos...
Increasing periods of consecutive dry days, upward altitudinal shifts in orographic cloud formation,...
A large population of the fully mycoheterotrophic orchid, Corallorhiza striata var. vreelandii, was ...
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the decrease in mist frequency observed in Montev...
I examined how the reproduction and fitness of the orchid, Scaphyglottis acostaei depends on the wat...
The lifting of the cloud bank due to climate change in the Monteverde cloud forest has already cause...
Tropical cloud forests like that found in Monteverde, Costa Rica rely heavily on daily precipitatio...
Epiphytes sequester required nutrients and moisture from mist; the remaining moisture is then releas...
It has been observed that epiphytic orchids are less abundant on trees of the genus Quercus (Fagacea...
The locations and densities of epiphytic orchids and bromeliads growing on host trees are influenced...
Ten recently fallen trees in the Lower Montane Wet Forest (1550-1650 m) and Lower Montane Rain Fores...
This experiment compares stomata density of the epiphytic Pleurothallis aristata and Maxillaria sp. ...
The purpose of this study was to test whether there is a difference in the number of open and closed...
10 pagesThis experiment compares stomata density of the epiphytic Pleurothallis aristata and Maxilla...
Research in forest canopies has been restricted by access difficulties for a long time, however in t...
Orchid distribution and abundance are likely functions of both abiotic and biotic factors. Forty hos...
Increasing periods of consecutive dry days, upward altitudinal shifts in orographic cloud formation,...
A large population of the fully mycoheterotrophic orchid, Corallorhiza striata var. vreelandii, was ...