Modern botanists have revisited sites examined by Alexander von Humboldt. Have modern advances made the German polymath's work irrelevant?
Tag - Neotropics
Fi Gennu
Diversification of the resurrection monocot family Velloziaceae
The greater diversity of plant clades in the Neotropics compared to their relatives in Africa is a pervasive pattern in biogeography. To better understand the causes of this imbalance, Alcantara and colleagues studied...
botanyone
Ecological range shift and polyploidy in Fosterella
Distribution of polyploidy along a relatively steep Andean elevation gradient is studied using the genus Fosterella (Bromeliaceae) as a model system. Paule et al. observed an ecological differentiation of cytotypes with...
Hydrometeorology and ecophysiology of cloud forests
The links between hydrometeorological conditions and vegetation distribution, functioning and survival.
AJ Cann
Pollen limitation in hummingbird-pollinated plants
Many species of hummingbird-pollinated plants in a tropical montane rain forest experience pollen limitation.
