Indeed, the upper portions of the fallow trees were almost devoid of epiphytes.
Trees represented the most diverse life form (124 spp), followed by herbs (101 spp), lianas (85), shrubs (66), herbaceous climbers epiphytes (15) and parasites (two).
We defined epiphytes as plants that spend most of their life cycle attached to other plants.
Was it true that the montane forest, swathed in epiphytes, was hardly ever exposed to drying air?
Little is known, however, about epiphyte proliferation in disturbed forests.
However, the frequency distribution of the leaf longevity of climbers and epiphytes overlapped with those of trees and herbs.
Longevity of fallen epiphytes in a neotropical montane forest.
In the lowland forests, some trees were nearly free of epiphytes while others were covered almost as densely as trees in the mountains.
