Epiphytes improve host plant water use by microenvironment modification

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• host plant 100%
• epiphyte 97%
• water use 70%
• fog 20%
• canopy 15%
• removal 9%
• cactus 9%
• artificial substrate 8%
• ecophysiology 8%
• throughfall 7%
• ecosystem 7%
• ecosystem process 6%
• lichen 6%
• vapor pressure 6%
• forest ecosystem 5%
• desert 5%
• soil moisture 5%
• loss 3%
• effect 2%
• soil 2%
• temperature 2%
• rate 2%
• water 1%

Agriculture & Biology

• epiphytes 88%
• host plants 59%
• water 30%
• fog (meteorology) 30%
• canopy 14%
• Eulychnia 13%
• Caesalpinia spinosa 11%
• Tillandsia 9%
• ecosystems 9%
• throughfall 9%
• ecophysiology 7%
• vapor pressure deficit 7%
• forest ecosystems 7%
• Peru 6%
• lichens 6%
• Chile 6%
• deserts 5%
• shade 5%
• soil water 5%
• rain 4%
• soil 3%
• temperature 2%