The insect order Phasmatodea is known for large slender insects masquerading as twigs or bark. In contrast to these so-called stick insects, the subordinated clade of leaf insects (Phylliidae) are dorso-ventrally flattened and therefore resemble leaves i
there are over 30 parameters that govern the structure and function of canopy leaves compared with only two parameters that dictate root structure and none that control root function (Oleson et al., 2013). These parameters are also static despite the ability of plants and microbes to plastically...
(e.g., a suspended fallen branch with its withering leaves) provide a home resource to thousands of arthropods in hundreds of species, many found only in this setting. Eventually, such a branch loses its dried leaves and crashes to the forest floor. However, a short distance away, another...
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Every single tree absorbs a small amount of pollution in its chunk per second. If the total pollution in a chunk is above 60 units, once per second some of the trees in that chunk each have a chance to either lose one stage of leaves or have their leaves become one stage more gray....
Forests constitute important ecosystems in the global carbon cycle. However, how trees and environmental conditions interact to determine the amount of organic carbon stored in forest soils is a hotly debated subject. In particular, how tree species infl
The root bark, stem bark, and leaves of Terminalia macroptera were sequentially extracted with ethanol, 50% ethanol–water, and 50°C water using an accelerated solvent extractor (ASE). Six bioactive purified pectic polysaccharide fractions were obtained from the 50°C crude water extracts after ...
2015). Leaf area (cm2) was measured with a portable leaf area meter, and recorded as S1, S2,…,S30. The washed leaves were dried and weighed. Dust retention was calculated using the following equation (Baidourela et al. 2015): $${\text{Dust retention per unit leaf area}}({\text{...
pressure, a pronounced drooping of leaves and even branches of up to 5 cm in diameter (Fig.2, left). The canopy cover in tree species with dense canopies such asA. pseuoplatanusandT. cordatadecreased to levels of canopy cover typical for tree species with transparent canopies such asF. ...
The cessation of shoot elongation and stem diameter growth was defined as the date when no additional increment in the length or diameter, respectively, was observed between two subsequent measurements. 2.3. Changes in leaf colour The reflectance spectra of the leaves (2 leaves of each of 9 ...