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Newsletter of the Bromeliad Society of Central Florida Volume No. 30 Issue No. 08 August 2004 Next Meeting: Monday, Augu
Orlandiana Newsletter of the Bromeliad Society of Central Florida Volume No. 30 Issue No. 08 August 2004 Next Meeting: Monday, August 23, 2004 6:30 pm Refreshments Where: Leu Gardens, 1920 N. Forest Ave. Orlando 6:306:30-6:55 Member Market 7:007:00 MeetingMeeting StartsStarts This month’s Program: Transporting Bromeliads & Bylaws and Standing Rules Raffle Plants: All Members Refreshments V -D Show & Tell: Cryptanthus & Other Genera President’s Message The dog days of August are upon us now and, while our bromeliads may enjoy the heat and humidity, it’s important for us humans to take special care while working outdoors. Be sure to drink lots of water, wear sunscreen and mosquito repellant, and be aware of the effects heat may have on your body. Light-headedness, faintness, spots appearing before your eyes, clammy skin or shaking are indications that you may be heat sick. So take care, take it easy and remember to give yourself a break in air conditioning! At our July meeting, members voted unanimously to have next year’s Mothers Day Show and Sale at Fashion Square Mall. Florida Mall increased the rent for the space for next year, declined to provide signage or advertising and requires us to rent the tables again for the show. These costs seriously impact our ability to raise money for the non-profit groups we support with our annual donations. Both Fashion Square and Oviedo Marketplace offered space at no charge, agreed to provide tables, skirting and advertising, all at no charge. Oviedo Marketplace is still interested in hosting us for a future event. -
Bromelicolous Habit of Three Species of Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Bufonidae) in Northeastern Brazil’S Atlantic Forest
Herpetology Notes, volume 14: 903-906 (2021) (published online on 24 June 2021) Bromelicolous habit of three species of Rhinella Fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Bufonidae) in Northeastern Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Ubiratã Ferreira Souza1,*, Alan Pedro de Araújo2,3, Alcina Gabriela Maria Medeiros da Fonsêca Santos1, and Marcos Jorge Matias Dubeux4 Understanding habitat types and how organisms bromeliads for breeding can still use them as shelter (i.e., make use of them, is crucial for identifying factors bromelicolous; sensu Peixoto, 1995). Bromelicolous that determine species distribution and community habit can be recurrent (e.g., Scinax pachycrus [Araújo composition (Kopp and Eterovick, 2006; Pittman et et al., 2020], Nyctimantis brunoi [Peixoto, 1995]) or al., 2014). The phytotelmata are plant structures that opportunistic – when the anuran uses this phytotelm accumulate rainwater (e.g., bromeliad tanks, tree holes, occasionally (Peixoto, 1995; Andrade et al., 2009). bamboo internodes, axils and floral bracts; see Kitching, Among the four genera of bufonids occurring in 2000). Such structures provide microhabitats for fungi, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Segalla et al., 2019), microalgae, and both invertebrate and vertebrate Dendrophryniscus Jiménez-de-la-Espada, 1870, animals (Maguire, 1971; Ramos et al., 2018, 2019). The Frostius Cannatella, 1986 and Melanophryniscus plants of the Bromeliaceae family are the most common Gallardo, 1961 have strong association with phytotelm phytotelm across the Neotropical region (Ulloa-Ulloa environments, including bromeligenous species (Cruz et al., 2017), being used for shelter, foraging and/or and Peixoto, 1982; Haddad and Prado, 2005; Kwet et reproduction (Pugliese et al., 2009; Nunes et al., 2012). al., 2005; Wells, 2007; Langone et al., 2008; Dias et al., Among Neotropical anurans, more than 168 known 2016; Sabagh et al., 2017). -
Urbanization Impacts the Taxonomic and Functional Structure of Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Communities in a Small Neotropical City
Urban Ecosyst DOI 10.1007/s11252-017-0653-6 Urbanization impacts the taxonomic and functional structure of aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in a small Neotropical city Stanislas Talaga1,2 & Olivier Dézerald2 & Alexis Carteron2 & Céline Leroy3 & Jean-François Carrias4 & Régis Céréghino5 & Alain Dejean2,5 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017 Abstract Due to habitat fragmentation, resource disruption were negatively affected. Because we cannot ascertain wheth- and pollution, urbanization is one of the most destructive er the decline in filter-feeders is related to food web-mediated forms of anthropization affecting ecosystems worldwide. effects or to competitive exclusion (Aedes aegypti mosquitoes Generally, human-mediated perturbations dramatically alter were present in urban bromeliads only), further studies are species diversity in urban sites compared to the surroundings, necessary to account for the effects of intra-guild competition thus influencing the functioning of the entire ecosystem. We or inter-guild facilitation. investigated the taxonomic and functional diversity patterns of the aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in tank bromeliads Keywords Aedes aegypti . Bioindicator . Diversity . by comparing those found in a small Neotropical city with Functional traits . Tank bromeliads . Urban ecology those from an adjacent rural site. Changes in the quality of detrital inputs in relation to lower tree diversity and the pres- ence of synanthropic species are likely important driving Introduction forces behind the observed structural changes in the urban site. Leaf-litter processors (i.e., shredders, scrapers) were positive- Urbanization is one of the most destructive forms of anthro- ly affected in the urban site, while filter-feeders that process pogenic disturbance experienced by ecosystems worldwide. smaller particles produced by the activity of the shredders Generally, species diversity is altered dramatically in urban sites compared to the surroundings. -
Pollinic Characterization of Raulinoa Echinata RS Cowan (Rutaceae)
Acta Biológica Catarinense 2017 Jan-Jun;4(1):71-82 Pollinic characterization of Raulinoa echinata R. S. Cowan (Rutaceae), Dyckia brevifolia Baker and Dyckia ibiramensis Reitz (Bromeliaceae), reophyte and saxicolous endemic species of river Itajaí-Açu, Santa Catarina, Brazil Caracterização polínica de Raulinoa echinata R.S. Cowan (Rutaceae), Dyckia brevifolia Baker e Dyckia ibiramensis Reitz (Bromeliaceae), espécies reófitas e endêmicas do rio Itajaí-Açu, Santa Catarina, Brasil Denise Monique Dubet da Silva MOUGA1, 4; Bruna Tereza POSSAMAI2; Enderlei DEC3 & Sílvio Murilo Cristóvão da SILVA3 ABSTRACT Aiming to contribute with elements about the reproduction of the reophytes Raulinoa Recebido em: 5 maio 2017 echinata, Dyckia brevifolia and Dyckia ibiramensis as well as to support their taxonomic Aceito em: 22 jun. 2017 definition, their pollinic characterization was carried out. Fresh pollen grains were prepared by acetolysis. Observations occurred on a light microscope and a scanning electron microscope. Measures were done of the polar (P) and equatorial diameters (E) and thickness of the exine and are expressed as means in micrometers. R. echinata: monad; radial symmetry; medium size; P=49,07±3,33; E=33,95±3,94; prolate (ratio P / E); ambitus subtriangular; 3-aperturated with long colpi and lalongate endoapertures; exine striated with thickness 1.54 ± 0,32. Dyckia brevifolia: monad; bilateral symmetry; medium size; P=25,16 ± 3,02; E=43,16±3,50 x 28,12±3,26; ambitus elliptical; monoaperturated with one long sulcus; exine reticulate with thickness 1,66 ± 0,31. D. ibiramensis: monad; bilateral symmetry; medium size; P=29,54±3,17; E=42,36±3,60 x 28,43±3,38; ambitus elliptical; monoaperturated with one long sulcus; exine reticulate with thickness 1,73 ± 0,28. -
Coenagrionidae) Phytotelmata, Pools Epiphytic Plants
Odonalologica 16(2): 193-199 June I, 1987 Seasonality, abundance and invertebrate associates of Leptagrionsiqueirai Santos in Aechmea bromeliads in Venezuelan rain forest (Zygoptera: Coenagrionidae) L.P. Lounibos¹,J.H. Frank²,C.E. Machado-Allison³, J.C. Navarro³ and P. Ocanto³ 1 Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory, University of Florida, 200 9th St SE, Vero Beach, Florida 32962, United States department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, United States 3 Institute de Zoologia Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 47058, Caracas 1041, Venezuela Received October 28, 1986 / Accepted December 11, 1986 In lowland tropical rainforest in eastern Venezuela the aquatic invertebrate fauna A. A. ml of 160 nudicaulis and 157 aquilega of 50-100 fluid capacity was inventoried. Larvae L. in has central tank of siqueirai occurred 35,3% ofA. aquilega which a small and axils in of many but only 11.0% A. nudicaulis which possesses a larger central tank but fewer axils. The incidence of larvae was significantly higher in the dry in wet to 7 L. larvae (29.4%) than the (16.6%) season. Up siqueirai were recorded from individual A. aquilega, and the frequency distribution of larvae in this brome- liad sp. fits a negative binomial. The most abundant invertebrates in Aechmea were Diptera (Culicidae, Thaumaleidae, Chironomidae, Ceratopogonidae,Psychodidae, and Reductions abun- Tipulidae), Coleoptera (Helodidae), oligochaete worms. in dance these due among any of taxa to predation by L siqueirai could not be demonstrated. However, the predaceous mosquito Toxorhynchiles haemurrhoidalis was negatively associated with and suffered reduced survivorship in the presence ofL. siqueirai, probably due to predation by the latter. -
Plant-Hummingbird Interactions: Natural History and Ecological Networks
Pietro Kiyoshi Maruyama Mendonça Plant-hummingbird interactions: natural history and ecological networks Interações entre plantas e beija-flores: história natural e redes ecológicas CAMPINAS 2015 Aos meus pais, Dario e Isumi e a Amandinha Agradecimentos Uma tese de doutorado é o resultado de um longo caminho, e inevitavelmente é preciso contar com a ajuda de muitas pessoas para ser finalizada. Tudo começou com os meus pais, Dario e Isumi, que resolveram "juntar as coisas" a quase trinta anos atrás. E a quase trinta anos eles têm feito de tudo para me dar todo o apoio possível. Agradeço muito a sorte de ter tido pais tão dedicados e amorosos. Obrigado! Essa tese não seria possível sem o apoio e orientação da Profa. Marlies. Agradeço o fato de ela ter me aberto as portas do seu laboratório e de certa maneira também da Unicamp. A professora é sempre um grande exemplo (que todos gostariam de ser) de como lidar com a vida acadêmica, para que esta continue divertida para você, mas também para os outros ao seu redor. Espero ter pego alguma coisa da sua sabedoria! Chegando aqui, ainda vejo que a minha formação se deve muito ao meu primeiro orientador, o Paulo. Em muitos aspectos parecido com a Profa. Marlies, mas em tantos outros bem diferente, é também um exemplo que tenho para mim. O que me deixa muito feliz é que as portas da sua sala continuam sempre abertas. Essa tese também me ofereceu a oportunidade de aprender com um co-orientador "gringo". Agradeço muito ao Bo, pelo crescimento profissional tão importante que me proporcionou. -
September 2013
BromeliAdvisory September 2013 Aechmea ‘Del Mar’ In this Issue President’s Message . 2 Put on Thinking Caps . 2 In Case You Missed It. 2-3 An Accelerated Schedule for Show Preparation.. 3-4 About the Speaker . 4 Garden Notes. 4-6 Dr. Grayson Dies . 6 Upcoming Events . 6-7 Murder in Corbin A . 7-8 BromeliAdvisory September 2013 EPTEMBER WEBPAGE: http://www.bssf-miami.org/ S 17, 2013 7:30 PM SPEAKER: Jay Thurrott http://www.facebook.com/groups/BromeliadS RAFFLE TABLE: Mike Michalski SF/?bookmark_t=group http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bromeliad-S FOOD: Josefa Leon, Doris Boiesen, Betty ociety-of-South-Florida/84661684279 McQuayle, Maryanne LaRusso President Barbara Partagas VP: Lenny Goldstein Treasurer: Alan Herndon Speaker Secretary: Peggy Fisher JAY THURROTT _________________ “The other way of growing bromeliads – seed to seed." The DIRECTORS “other way” meaning other than removing offsets. Jay has Past Pres.: Carl Bauer heard so much misinformation regarding growing bromeliads Directors: from seed that he thought he'd put together a program about Urszula Dudek ‘12-‘13 some experiences in bromeliad seed growing. Combined Maureen Adelman ‘13-‘14 successes and failures have made him seek to share photos of Joy Parrish ‘13-‘14 what bromeliad seed looks like and more. He'll also emphasize Lori Weyrick ‘13-‘14 means of growing from seed are by no means "the best" way – it's simply the way he goes about it. Editor Robert C Meyer Miami-Dade County's Division of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) will be giving FREE trees to the community through its popular Adopt-a-Tree program. -
Absorptive Trichomes in Brocchinia Reducta (Bromeliaceae) and Their Evolutionary and Systematic Significance Author(S): David H
Absorptive Trichomes in Brocchinia reducta (Bromeliaceae) and Their Evolutionary and Systematic Significance Author(s): David H. Benzing, Thomas J. Givnish and David Bermudes Source: Systematic Botany, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1985), pp. 81-91 Published by: American Society of Plant Taxonomists Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2418437 Accessed: 29-09-2016 15:34 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms American Society of Plant Taxonomists is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Systematic Botany This content downloaded from 132.198.9.255 on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 15:34:40 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Systematic Botany (1985), 10(1): pp. 81-91 ? Copyright 1985 by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists Absorptive Trichomes in Brocchinia reducta (Bromeliaceae) and Their Evolutionary and Systematic Significance DAVID H. BENZING Department of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 THOMAS J. GIVNISH Harvard University, The Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 DAVID BERMUDES Department of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 44074 ABSTRACT. Brocchinia reducta, a tank-forming member of subfamily Pitcairnioideae (Bromeli- aceae), possesses foliar trichomes capable of absorbing 3H-leucine as do those borne by other mem- bers of the same family (all Tillandsioideae and some species of Bromelioideae). -
Caracteres Vegetativos E Reprodutivos E Desenvolvimento Pós-Seminal Em Bromeliaceae
UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL PAULISTA “JÚLIO DE MESQUITA FILHO” unesp INSTITUTO DE BIOCIÊNCIAS – RIO CLARO PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS (BIOLOGIA VEGETAL) CARACTERES VEGETATIVOS E REPRODUTIVOS E DESENVOLVIMENTO PÓS-SEMINAL EM BROMELIACEAE KLEBER RESENDE SILVA Tese apresentada ao Instituto de Biociências do Câmpus de Rio Claro, Universidade Estadual Paulista, como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de Doutor em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Vegetal. RIO CLARO/SP Novembro - 2018 KLEBER RESENDE SILVA CARACTERES VEGETATIVOS E REPRODUTIVOS E DESENVOLVIMENTO PÓS- SEMINAL EM BROMELIACEAE Orientadora: Profa. Dra. Aline Oriani Coorientador: Prof. Dr. Leonardo M. Versieux Tese apresentada ao Instituto de Biociências do Câmpus de Rio Claro, Universidade Estadual Paulista, como parte dos requisitos para obtenção do título de Doutor em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Vegetal). Rio Claro – SP 2018 Silva, Kleber Resende S586c Caracteres vegetativos e reprodutivos e desenvolvimento pós-seminal em Bromeliaceae / Kleber Resende Silva. -- Rio Claro, 2018 102 f. : il., tabs., fotos Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro Orientadora: Aline Oriani Coorientador: Leonardo Versieux 1. Anatomia. 2. Envoltório seminal. 3. Campos rupestres. 4. Germinação. 5. Plântula. I. Título. Sistema de geração automática de fichas catalográficas da Unesp. Biblioteca do Instituto de Biociências, Rio Claro. Dados fornecidos pelo autor(a). Essa ficha não pode ser modificada. Com carinho, à minha família e amigos e gratidão àqueles que me incentivaram e abriram portas AGRADECIMENTOS O presente trabalho foi realizado com apoio da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior – Brasil (CAPES) – Código de Financiamento 001. Obteve-se também financiamento pelo DAAD (Co-financed Short-Term Research Grant Brazil, 2017) para realização de estágio no exterior (Ruhr Universität Bochum, Alemanha). -
Structure-Function Relationships in the Water-Use Strategies and Ecological Diversity of the Bromeliaceae
Structure-function relationships in the water-use strategies and ecological diversity of the Bromeliaceae Jamie Oliver Males Clare College, University of Cambridge Date of submission: 5th May 2017 This dissertation is submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Structure-function relationships in the water-use strategies and ecological diversity of the Bromeliaceae Jamie Oliver Males Summary The Bromeliaceae is one of the largest and most ecologically diverse angiosperm families in the Neotropics. In recent years, this family has begun to emerge as a model system for the study of plant evolutionary ecology and physiology, and major advances have been made in understanding the factors involved in episodes of rapid diversification and adaptive radiation in specific bromeliad lineages. However, despite a long tradition of ecophysiological research on the Bromeliaceae, an integrative, evolutionarily-contextualised synthesis of the links between anatomical) physiological, and ecological aspects of bromeliad biology has hitherto been lacking. The overarching aim of this research project was therefore to use new quantitative data representing a wide range of bromeliad taxonomic and functional groups to elucidate how variation in leaf traits connected by structure- function relationships influences ecological differentiation among bromeliad taxa. Special emphasis was placed on hydraulic and water relations traits because of fast-paced contemporary developments in these fields. The methodologies employed included an assessment of the diversity of bromeliad hydrological habitat occupancy, quantification of key anatomical and physiological traits and their correlations, investigation of the links between vascular and extra-xylary anatomy and hydraulic efficiency and vulnerability, quantification of stomatal sensitivity to leaf-air vapour pressure deficit and stomatal kinetics, and a case study of trait-mediated niche segregation among congeneric epiphytic bromeliad species on the Caribbean island of Trinidad. -
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BROMELIAD SOCIETY OF GREATER CHICAGO THE BSGC NEWS November/December, 2015 President Lori Weigerding (630) 978-7340 Vice President Martha Goode (815) 459-1623 Treasurer Paula Derning (847) 295-2559 Secretary OPEN Newsletter Editor Steve Goode [email protected] WEB SITE http://bromeliad-chicago.org Webmaster Lori Weigerding We have a long break from our meetings. The next one is February 14th. Mark it on your 2016 calendar. Hope your bromeliads do well this winter. President’s Column Well we had a nice time at our visit to the Chalet Nursery. It’s always interesting to learn something about how things are done and new information about the care of our plants. I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving! We certainly did, we went to our son’s house for dinner and then I watched Liyah while her parents went shopping. We have some things to decide on and think about. The first thing is does anyone want to run for any of the offices – President, vice president, secretary, or treasurer, besides those that already hold those offices? As you know the secretary position is vacant at this time. The second item is that the Garden will not allow us to have our show there next year unless we find someone to do it with. They said that we didn’t make good use of the room. So we need to find some where else to hold our show. We’ll be having our next meeting in February 2016. I’ll be showing something from a DVD and we’ll be discussing what we’re going to do for the future. -
Far North Coast Bromeliad Study Group N.S.W
Far North Coast Bromeliad Study Group N.S.W. Study Group meets the third Thursday of each month Next meeting 17th May 2012 at 11 a.m. Venue: PineGrove Bromeliad Nursery 114 Pine Street Wardell 2477 Phone (02) 6683 4188 Discussion: April 2012 General show & tell Editorial Team: Don Beard Ross Little & Helen Clewett [email protected] 1 Meeting 15th March 2012 The meeting was opened at 11:23am by Ron. A total of 32 members attended the meeting. Apologies were given for seven members. Ron mentioned that Rosemary Dalton had had a second operation and was on the mend. Laurie Mountford had also recovered. General Business Ross reminded the meeting that DVD’s containing Newsletters from various Groups and Societies from around Australia were available from the library. The disks are updated monthly. Also, with the author’s permission, member’s articles and photos used in our Newsletters and/or for presentations, would be retained by the library. Both Trish’s and Debbie’s originals have been filed. A copy of Derek Butcher’s (Uncle Derek) latest Tillandsia disk is now in the library. The issue of labelling sales and raffle broms was mentioned again (see p3, FNCBSG(NSW) Newsletter, March 2012). A much repeated discussion on label- ling followed. Ross pointed out that the whole idea of labelling is to make ones life easier, especially when you want to replace lost plants or plants you wish to obtain. You are not expected to remember all the names just retain the tags. In regard to library books, please ensure that the borrowing cards are filled out correctly when borrowing, and that your name is crossed out when the book is returned.