Search Results - "ZARTMAN, CHARLES E."
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The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation
Published in Biological conservation (2011)“…We synthesize findings to date from the world’s largest and longest-running experimental study of habitat fragmentation, located in central Amazonia. Over the…”
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Phorophyte size and soil profiles differentially correlate with community structure among hemiepiphytes and nomadic vines
Published in Biotropica (01-03-2023)“…Tropical non‐self‐supporting plants such as hemiepiphytes and nomadic vines are model organisms for disentangling biotic and environmental correlates which…”
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Prezygotic resource-allocation dynamics and reproductive trade-offs in Calymperaceae (Bryophyta)
Published in American journal of botany (01-10-2016)“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Resource allocation is difficult to characterize in plants because of the challenges of quantifying gametes and propagules. We surveyed…”
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Bryophytes in a changing landscape: The hierarchical effects of habitat fragmentation on ecological and evolutionary processes
Published in Biological conservation (01-03-2007)“…Testing the myriad predictions associated with the community, demographic and genetic impacts of habitat fragmentation remains a high conservation priority…”
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Molecular systematics of the Amazonian genus Aldina, a phylogenetically enigmatic ectomycorrhizal lineage of papilionoid legumes
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-04-2016)“…[Display omitted] •Combining analyses with missing data improve resolution in the legume phylogeny.•Densely-sampled analyses resolve the placement of the…”
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Insights on the systematics and morphology of Humiriaceae (Malpighiales): androecial and extrafloral nectary variation, two new combinations, and a new Sacoglottis from Guyana
Published in PhytoKeys (2019)“…Humiriaceae have had little recent comparative morphological study except for their distinctive fruits. We surveyed the diversity of stamen structures in the…”
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Lethal and sublethal effects of essential oils fromPiper capitarianumYunck andPiper krukoffiiYunck onPlutella xylostellaL
Published in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (2022)“…Abstract Plutella xylostella (L.) is responsible for considerable vegetable crop losses in the metropolitan region of Manaus, Brazil. In recent decades,…”
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Habitat Fragmentation Impacts on Epiphyllous Bryophyte Communities in Central Amazonia
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-04-2003)“…Tropical deforestation is a progressive process resulting in the conversion of rain forest into a mosaic of mature forest fragments, pasture, and degraded…”
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Are habitat-tracking metacommunities dispersal limited? Inferences from abundance-occupancy patterns of epiphylls in Amazonian forest fragments
Published in Biological conservation (2006)“…In theory, habitat fragmentation alters plant community dynamics by influencing both local (within patch) and regional (among patch) processes. However, the…”
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Amazon plant diversity revealed by a taxonomically verified species list
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-10-2017)“…Recent debates on the number of plant species in the vast lowland rain forests of the Amazon have been based largely on model estimates, neglecting published…”
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Metapopulation Extinction Thresholds in Rain Forest Remnants
Published in The American naturalist (01-02-2006)“…Although habitat fragmentation is a major threat to global biodiversity, the demographic mechanisms underlying species loss from tropical forest remnants…”
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The innovation of the symbiosome has enhanced the evolutionary stability of nitrogen fixation in legumes
Published in The New phytologist (01-09-2022)“…Summary Nitrogen‐fixing symbiosis is globally important in ecosystem functioning and agriculture, yet the evolutionary history of nodulation remains the focus…”
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Comprehensive phylogenomic time tree of bryophytes reveals deep relationships and uncovers gene incongruences in the last 500 million years of diversification
Published in American journal of botany (01-11-2023)“…Premise Bryophytes form a major component of terrestrial plant biomass, structuring ecological communities in all biomes. Our understanding of the evolutionary…”
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A dated molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis reveals the evolutionary history of the trans-pacifically disjunct tropical tree genus Ormosia (Fabaceae)
Published in Molecular phylogenetics and evolution (01-01-2022)“…[Display omitted] •Monophly of Ormosia supported.•Grouping of its species into two Asian clades and one New World clade supported.•Clades of Ormosia mostly…”
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What do tropical cryptogams reveal? Strong genetic structure in Amazonian bryophytes
Published in The New phytologist (01-10-2020)“…• Lowland tropical bryophytes have been perceived as excellent dispersers. In such groups, the inverse isolation hypothesis proposes that spatial genetic…”
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Divergent patterns of intraspecific trait variation among floral and vegetative characters in the hyperdominant dioecious Neotropical tree Virola sebifera (Myristicaceae)
Published in Botanical journal of the Linnean Society (01-06-2023)“…Abstract Many Neotropical tree species are widespread at continental and even inter-continental scales, but phenotypic variation across their respective ranges…”
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Reproductive traits as predictors of assembly chronosequence patterns in epiphyllous bryophyte metacommunities
Published in The Journal of ecology (01-03-2019)“…Understanding the mechanisms underlying species assembly is a central focus of plant ecology and is crucial to revealing how plant communities are structured…”
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A molecular phylogeny of the early-branching Genistoid lineages of papilionoid legumes reveals a new Amazonian genus segregated from Clathrotropis
Published in Botanical journal of the Linnean Society (27-04-2024)“…Molecular phylogenetic studies focused on the early-branching papilionoid legumes have revealed many new clades and supported several generic realignments, yet…”
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A dated phylogeny of the Neotropical Dipterygeae clade reveals 30 million years of winged papilionate floral conservatism in the otherwise florally labile early-branching papilionoid legumes
Published in Botanical journal of the Linnean Society (01-08-2023)“…The early-branching clades of Fabaceae subfamily Papilionoideae are characterized by their remarkable lability in floral architecture. In contrast, more…”
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Flowers of the early-branching papilionoid legume Petaladenium urceoliferum display unique morphological and ontogenetic features
Published in American journal of botany (01-11-2015)“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Floral development can help to shed light on puzzling features across flowering plants. The enigmatic Amazonian monospecific genus…”
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