We want to explore the reasons behind the floristic patterns of epiphytes in the two different forest types (intensively managed and rarely managed), which will help to understand and forecast changes in canopy diversity following human activities, and to manage and restore the canopy communities in a time of rapidly changing climate.
Dear Yagya,
Hope the papers mentioned below will be of some help.
Epiphytic plants in a changing world-global: change effects on vascular and non-vascular epiphytes,G Zotz, MY Bader - Progress in botany, Springer,2009
Changes in plant community diversity and floristic composition on environmental and geographical gradients,AH Gentry - Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, JSTOR,1988
Large‐scale diversity patterns of vascular epiphytes in Neotropical montane rain forests,W Küper, H Kreft, J Nieder, N Köster… - Journal of , Wiley Online Library,2004
Good luck!
The natural plant are life in harmony with their area and in this global change of climate Ithink that they will be more adapted in moiture areas but really it will be more catastrophic for the new "Dry land" but we can be sûr that many species will go and the resistant ones will prosper .....
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