This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Intense competition with lianas (wood climbers) can limit tree growth, reproduction, and survival. However, the negative effects of liana ...

Ecologist are studying how woody vines, or lianas, are affecting tropical forests and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Through a comprehensive community-level study on liana-tree interactions in ...

Among the hundreds of species of woody vines that University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee ecologist Stefan Schnitzer has encountered in the tropical forests of Panama, the largest has a stalk nearly 20 ...

Lianas, or woody climbing plants, are a major constituent of seasonally dry tropical forests, and are thought to impact negatively their host trees. In this study we evaluated whether liana presence ...

Global warming may be spurring liana growth, hindering forest carbon storage in Central America A worrying trend has emerged in tropical forests: lianas, woody long-stemmed vines, are increasingly ...

Lianas are the bridges of the tropical forest. These long, woody vines contribute to the high diversity of tropical plants and, by linking forest trees together, they also help animals move about the ...

Woody vines, known as lianas, compete intensely with trees and their numbers are on the rise in many tropical forests around the world. A new study at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI ...

Since the 1970s, research into climbing woody vines called lianas has focused primarily on the harm they inflict on rainforest trees. Studies have shown that lianas can kill trees outright and limit ...

A creeping menace is taking over the planet's tropical forests, a brand of tree-hugging vine whose embrace if you're a tree is of the sinister kind. Lianas, a type of woody vine, are increasingly ...