Canopy Roots: Convergent Evolution in Rainforest Nutrient Cycles
- 27 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4524) , 1023-1024
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4524.1023
Abstract
Accumulations of living and dead epiphytes in the canopy of rainforest trees provide an aboveground nutrient resource. A wide range of host tree species in both temperate and tropical rainforests gain access to these nutrients by putting forth extensive networks of adventitious roots beneath the epiphyte mats they support.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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