Orchid Research Newsletter No

Cytogenetics

Pitrez, S. R., Andrade, L. A., Assis, F. N. M., and Felix, L. P. 2014. Is there a relationship between polyploidy and stressful environments? A case study of inselbergs in northeastern Brazil. Genetics and Molecular Research 13: 8353-8366.

Turco, A., D'Emerico, S., Medagli, P., and Albano, A. 2015. A cytological study on Ophrys (Orchidaceae) in Italy: new evidence and the importance of polyploidy. Plant Biosystems 149: 24-30.

Ecology

Berezutsky, M. A., Reshetnikova, T. B., Serova, L. A., and Kashin, A. S. 2014. Ecological despecialization of species of the family Orchidaceae Juss. in the north of the Lower Volga region. Biology Bulletin 41: 849-850.

De La Rosa-Manzano, E., Luis Andrade, J., Zotz, G., and Reyes-Garcia, C. 2014. Physiological responses to drought of five epiphytic orchid species from two tropical dry forests of the Yucatan Peninsula. Botanical Sciences 92: 607-616.
Hernandez-Perez, E. and Solano, E. 2015. Effects of habitat fragmentation on the diversity of epiphytic orchids from a montane forest of southern Mexico. Journal of Tropical Ecology 31: 103-115.
Londoño Lemos, V. and Torres González, A. M. 2015. Estructura y composición vegetal de un bosque seco tropical en regeneración en Bataclán (Cali, Colombia). [Vegetation structure and composition of a tropical dry forest in regeneration in Bataclán (Cali, Colombia)]. Colombia Forestal 18: 71-85.
Rosa-Manzano, E. de la, Andrade, J. L., Zotz, G., and Reyes-García, C. 2014. Respuestas fisiológicas a la sequía, de cinco especies de orquídeas epífitas, en dos selvas secas de la península de Yucatán. [Physiological responses to drought of five epiphytic orchid species from two tropical dry forests of the Yucatan Peninsula.] Botanical Sciences 92: 607-616.
Schindler, S., Wehrden, H. von, Poirazidis, K., Hochachka, W. M., Wrbka, T., and Kati, V. 2015. Performance of methods to select landscape metrics for modelling species richness. Ecological Modelling 295: 107-112.
Sletvold, N. and Agren, J. 2015. Climate-dependent costs of reproduction: survival and fecundity costs decline with length of the growing season and summer temperature. Ecology Letters 18: 357-364.
Sletvold, N., Moritz, K. K., and Agren, J. 2015. Additive effects of pollinators and herbivores result in both conflicting and reinforcing selection on floral traits. Ecology 96: 214-221.
Sun, M., Yang, S-J., Zhang, J-L., Bartlett, M., and Zhang, S-B. 2014. Correlated evolution in traits influencing leaf water balance in Dendrobium (Orchidaceae). Plant Ecology 215: 1255-1267.
Susan-Tepetlan, T. M., Velazquez-Rosas, N., and Kroemer, T. 2015. Changes in functional traits of vascular epiphytes of cloud forest and secondary vegetation in central Veracruz, Mexico. Botanical Sciences 93: 153-163.
Whitman, M. and Ackerman, J. D. 2015. Terrestrial orchids in a tropical forest: best sites for abundance differ from those for reproduction. Ecology 96: 693-704.
Zhang, S-B., Dai, Y., Hao, G-Y., Li, J-W., Fu, X-W., and Zhang, J-L. 2015. Differentiation of water-related traits in terrestrial and epiphytic Cymbidium species. Frontiers in Plant Science 6: 260.