Vascular epiphytes in Taiwan and their potential response to climate change

Thesis

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Contents

1: General introduction

2: Diversity and phytogeography of vascular epiphytes in a tropical‐subtropical transition island, Taiwan

3: Regional and altitudinal patterns in vascular epiphyte richness on an East Asian island

4: Canopy CO2 concentrations and crassulacean acid metabolism in Hoya carnosa in a subtropical rain forest in Taiwan: Consideration of CO2 availability and the evolution of CAM in epiphytes

5: Comparative photosynthetic capacity of abaxial and adaxial leaf sides as related to exposure in an epiphytic fern in a subtropical rainforest in northeastern Taiwan

6: Adaptation of a widespread epiphytic fern to simulated climate‐change conditions

7: Simulating climate change impacts on forests and associated vascular epiphytes in a subtropical island of East Asia

8: Conclusions

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Summary

總結

Samenvatting

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