Epiphyte-quotient

Pluggable Advisors as Epiphyte Systems

François Pachet 1, Sylvain Giroux 2, Gilbert Paquette 3 1LAFORIA, Université Pierre&Marie Curie, 4, place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France E-mail: [email protected] 2IREMIA, de La Réunion, 15, avenue René Cassin, 97489 St-Denis, La Réunion, France E-mail: [email protected] 3LICEF, Télé-Université, 1001, rue Sherbrooke est, H2X3M4 Montréal, Canada E-mail: [email protected]

Exceptional Epiphyte Diversity on a Single Tree

An exhaustive survey of vascular epiphytes on a single mature canopy tree in a Costa Rican tropical premontane wet forest revealed an extraordinary level of epiphyte diversity. A total of 126 morphospecies representing at least 52 genera and 21 plant families were found growing epiphytically on the phorophyte (host tree), accounting for more than 1% of the entire vascular flora of Costa Rica. T...

Predicting Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) from the Systemizing Quotient-Revised (SQ-R) and Empathy Quotient (EQ).

BACKGROUND Empathizing is a specific component of social cognition. Empathizing is also specifically impaired in autism spectrum condition (ASC). These are two dimensions, measurable using the Empathy Quotient (EQ) and the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ). ASC also involves strong systemizing, a dimension measured using the Systemizing Quotient (SQ). The present study examined the relationship bet...

ε-weakly Chebyshev subspaces and quotient spaces

Bird Use of Epiphyte Resources in Neotropical Trees1 Nalini

Epiphytes are a common component of neotropical forests, but their importance to birds at the community level and their role in contributing to tropical bird diversity has only rarely been considered. Literature accounts from 55 studies document 193 species of neotropical birds that take nectar, fruits, invertebrates, water, and nesting materials from epiphytes. To quantify the amounts and type...