Cucurbitacin F and the cyanogenetic compounds prunasin were isolated and identified from the seeds of Kageneckia angustifolia.

Two new dammarane triterpenoids, 20R,21-epoxydammar-24-ene-3,23-dione and 20R,21-epoxy-3 beta-hydroxydammar-24-ene-23-one have been isolated from the aerial parts of Kageneckia angustifolia D. Don, Rosaceae, along with the ...

Leaf litter accumulation can have either positive, negative or neutral effects on seed germination and seedling recruitment. In montane woodlands of the Mediterranean zone of central Chile, large amounts of leaf litter ...

The decrease in temperature with increasing elevation may determine the altitudinal tree distribution in different ways: affecting survival through freezing temperatures, by a negative carbon balance produced by lower ...