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The present dissertation aims at contributing to our understanding
of the processes that determine epiphyte diversity in anthropogenic
landscapes. At a dry forest site, epiphytic bryophytes responded
sensitively to human disturbance, but vascular epiphytes did not.
At a moist forest site, vascular epiphyte assemblages on isolated
remnant trees were impoverished markedly and strongly biased to
xerotolerant taxa. Field-experimental work at this site could show
that this was related to 1) strongly increased mortality of
established plants on isolated remnant trees following their
isolation in clear-cuts, and 2) reduced and compositionally biased
establishment on isolated trees. Evidence is presented to suggest
that growth conditions (especially microclimate) are a more
decisive predictor of epiphyte communities in disturbed habitats at
these sites than dispersal constraints. The response of epiphyte
communities to disturbance may further vary with mesoclimate.
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