There has been widespread clearance of tropical forests for agriculture, but in many cases the cultivation phase is only transient. The secondary forests recovering on these abandoned sites may contribute to mitigation of ...

We compared the richness and biomass of vascular epiphytes in six seasonally semideciduousoak (Quercus humboldtii) forest fragments of varying structure, using theSVERA protocol. Bromeliads dominated epiphytic vegetation ...

Eragrostis plana is an exotic and resilient weed in southern South America rangeland and pastureland. The goal of this study was to determine the phytotoxicity and chemical characteristics of extracts obtained from E. plana ...

The use of biomass as an energy resource is key to the subsistence and development of diverse rural populations throughout the world. Particularly, the study of seasonal variation in firewood consumption contributes knowledge ...

Sustainable forest management relies on the understanding of biodiversity response to disturbance and the ecological resilience of the system. The dynamic equilibrium hypothesis (DEM) predicts that site productivity will ...

The demand for woody biomass for energy and biomaterials is increasing rapidly in line with the global population rise and changing consumption patterns for sustainable resources. Central to meeting this demand is the ...

In the present study, we examined the variation in composition and biomass of epiphyton growing on the bulrush Schoenoplectus californicus in a pampean lake that passed through a turbid- and a clear-water period within an ...