Title
The biogeography of sodium in Neotropical figs (Moraceae)
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Harms K.
American Museum of Natural History
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
Sodium is essential for animals but not for most plants. Terrestrial sodium comes largely from marine aerosols, so inland ecosystems should have greater potential for sodium limitation than coastal ecosystems. We report a significant decrease of sodium in fruits of four Neotropical Ficus species with distance from presumed marine source.
Start page
18
End page
22
Volume
49
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología
Ciencias de las plantas, Botánica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85000577414
Source
Biotropica
ISSN of the container
00063606
Sponsor(s)
We extend our gratitude to Stella Sylva and Barbara Thiers from the New York Botanical Garden and Jim Solomon from the Missouri Botanical Garden for providing permits and facilitating access to herbarium Ficus samples. We thank Santiago Claramunt and two anonymous reviewers for their comments on the manuscript, Louise Emmons for her feedback on previous research that led to this study, and Maheshi Dassanayake, Fern Galvez, and Jennifer Powers for helpful suggestions. This research received funding from LSU.
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