The Perilous Plight of Rainforest Epiphytes – PNAS (2024)
Epiphytes (mosses, ferns, bromeliads and orchids) are a strikingly interesting group of non-parasitic plants prevalent in the tropics that live on the surface of other plants. They are particularly abundant and diverse in mountainous cloud forests. Epiphytes are interesting because they constitute an important part of nutrient cycle in their ecosystems capturing moisture and nutrients from the air. In the tropics they can accumulate a considerable amount of biomass within forest canopies and form a special type of micro environment […]
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