Liana - Wikipedia
Lianas are characteristic of tropical moist broadleaf forests (especially seasonal forests), but may be found in temperate rainforests and temperate deciduous forests. There are also temperate lianas, for example the members of the Clematis or Vitis (wild grape) genera.
Lianas - Introduction - Smithsonian National Museum of Natural …
Lianas (also known as vines, climbing plants or climbers) are plants with long, flexible, climbing stems that are rooted in the ground, and usually have long dangling branches. In order to climb, they have developed a wide range of climbing strategies and specialized structures affix themselves to the supporting structures.
Liana | Climbing Vines, Rainforest & Woody Vines | Britannica
liana, any long-stemmed, woody vine that is rooted in the soil and climbs or twines around other plants. They are a conspicuous component of tropical forest ecosystems and represent one of the most important structural differences between tropical and temperate forests.
Lianas | Rainforests - Earth Facts
Lianas, woody climbing vines, are an important feature of the rainforest. They start out as small upright shrubs. Most lianas produce long shoots with tendrils that attach themselves to a support. Eventually they extend into the canopy, reaching it via the understory and lower canopy trees, and sometimes growing up with their supporting trees.
The ecology of lianas and their role in forests - ScienceDirect
2002年5月1日 — Lianas are a polyphyletic group of woody plants all sharing a common growth strategy that centers on ascending to the canopy using the architecture of other plants. Unlike trees, lianas have relatively little structural support, so they can allocate more resources to reproduction, canopy development, and stem and root elongation [a, b]. Thus ...
What is a Liana? - World of Flowering Plants
A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines rooted in the soil at ground level and uses trees and other means of vertical support to climb up to the canopy to access well-lit forest areas. Lianas are characteristic of tropical moist deciduous forests (especially seasonal forests) but may be found in temperate rainforests.
Lianas: Current Biology - Cell Press
2018年3月19日 — What are lianas? Most researchers define lianas as climbing plants that develop a significant amount of wood. They are emblematic of the functional diversity and the complex, fractal-like, three-dimensional structures of tropical forests, where different growth forms of different sizes and shapes grow on and around each other ( Figure 1 ).
LIANA中文(简体)翻译：剑桥词典 - Cambridge Dictionary
noun [ C ] us uk / liˈɑːnə / Add to word list. a woody plant that grows in tropical forests. 藤本植物. (liana在剑桥英语-中文（简体）词典的翻译 © Cambridge University Press) liana的 例句. The …
Ecology of Lianas: Diversity and Distribution | SpringerLink
2023年2月14日 — Lianas are one of the most distinctive features of tropical forest ecosystems. Their ecological significance, particularly in determining the structural and functional diversity of tropical forests, is now more obvious than ever (Schnitzer et al., 2015 ).
Ecology of Lianas | Wiley Online Books
2014年10月18日 — This book provides insight into the ecology and evolution of lianas, their anatomy, physiology, and natural history, their global abundance and distribution, and their wide-ranging effects on the myriad organisms that inhabit tropical and temperate forests.