Keywords
HOST DECLINE
EPIPHYTE-HOST RELATIONSHIP
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Abstract
Authors of textbooks who consider the ecological strategy ofepiphytism at all routinely describe vascular epiphytes as organisms which grow upon other plants but have no significant effect on their hosts. Abercrombie et al (1970) in A Dictionary ofBiology describes an epiphyte as "a plant attached to another plant, not growing parasitically upon it but merely using it for support." In point of fact, little but descriptive and often anecdotal information is available in the literature on the impact vascular epiphytes have on other botanical elements sharing their forest communities. In the absence of published quantitative data on this subject, most biologists seem willing to accept the epiphyte-host relationship as basically commensalistic except for those occasions when significant shading or mechanical damage occurs to the host as a result of very heavy infestations.
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