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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Tropical Plants"”.
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Biologically-inspired high-performance envelope design in tropical climates
… gas emissions and fossil fuel consumption. As tropical regions face unprecedented growth, this thesis looks to the physiological adaptations of tropical plants to identify fac̦ade design strategies that reduce or eliminate the need for air conditioning in hot-humid regions. Using the dynamic …
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Optimal estimation of the surface fluxes of chloromethanes using a 3-D global atmospheric chemical transport
… large CH3Cl emissions of 2240 ± 370 Gg yr-1 from tropical plants. The inversion implies greater seasonal oscillations of the natural sources and sink of CH3Cl compared to the a priori. Seasonal cycles have been derived for both the oceanic (for CHCl3 and CH2Cl2) and terrestrial (for CHCl3) …
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Understanding the role of plant hydraulic traits in ecological processes
Among all ecosystems tropical forests play a disproportionate role in Earth’s carbon cycle as they account for one third of total primary productivity. Global environmental change is causing novel precipitation patterns, shifts in the timing of rainfall events and an increase of the atmospheric …
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The Role That Asexual Reproduction Plays in the Regeneration of Tropical Piper Shrubs: Habitat Differences and Genetic Consequences
… but little explored characteristic of many tropical plants with a variety of life-histories and habitat requirements. My dissertation research examined the ecological correlates and population genetic consequences of asexual reproductive success in five co-occurring Piper species using a …
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The Convoluted Origin and Diversification of Strangler Figs in the Neotropics
<p>Ficus (figs) is a hyper-diverse genus of tropical plants (> 800 species). No other group is comparable in terms of species richness, growth form (trees, shrubs, climbers, hemiepiphytes or stranglers), and ubiquity in tropical and subtropical regions. Figs also have a mutualistic relationship …
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Occurrence, Composition, and Habitat Associations of Terrestrial Herbaceous Plants in a Tropical Forest Community
In tropical forests, niche differentiation in terms of resource partitioning remains a central hypothesis for the maintenance of species diversity. However, all plants require seemingly identical resources, which would appear to limit the number of niche dimensions available for species to inhabit. …
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Application of high-throughput methods to reconstruct the evolutionary history of amherstieae by using the fossil pollen record of Striatopollis catatumbus and extant geographical records of the tribe
… a role in the modern geographic distributions of tropical plants, especially the legume tribe Amherstieae. First, superresolution confocal microscopy was used to increase the morphological resolution of modern and fossil pollen grains to detect diagnostic features of the pollen structure. This …
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A Genomics Approach to Conservation, Systematics, and Phylogeography to Understand Two Lineages of Lamiales
… which are Barleria (ca. 300 spp., primarily paleotropical), and the pantropical Lepidagathis (ca. 100 spp.). Many species in this group are important in tropical ecosystems and support a wide range of pollinators. Barlerieae present several taxonomic problems, and some species have intriguing …