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- adjective Of or pertaining to plants of the genus
Erica - adjective In plant anatomy and ecology "ericoid leaves" are such as occur in many species of Erica, but also in many thousands of species in other families. Typically they are small, often leathery, usually needle-like or scale-like, non-deciduous, and generally adapted to poor soils and arid conditions, such as in
fynbos andmaquis . - adjective Plants of "ericoid habit" generally have ericoid leaves and are slender, scrubby and woody, like many Erica species.
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Examples
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Leaf 15N abundance of subarctic plants provides field evidence that ericoid, ectomycorrhizal and non - and arbuscular mycorrhizal species access different sources of soil nitrogen.
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Arbuscular, ecto -, ericoid, arbutoid, and orchid mycorrhizal fungi are associated with plants in arctic ecosystems [52].
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Marojejy, Andringitra, Anjanaharibe-Sud, Tsaratanana and Andohahela are significant sites in that they are areas where there is an intact elevational cline from lowland forest through to ericoid thicket.
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On Tsaratanana montane sclerophyllous forest exists up to about 2,500 m and then shifting to ericoid thicket, while in on these other three massifs the ericoid thicket commences just below 2,000 m.
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However, at the elevations of the ericoid thicket there is a pronounced decrease in species richness for all of these groups.
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Plants that grow on rock outcrops are less threatened than other ericoid thicket species because the rocky areas block the local passage of fire.
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Madagascar ericoid thickets - Encyclopedia of Earth
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However, it is established that similar to other ecoregions on Madagascar there are a number of narrowly distributed endemic species and recent biological inventories of the ericoid thicket has located further endemic species.
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The Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve in the north and Andohahela National Park in the extreme southeast contain small areas of ericoid thicket above 1,950 m.
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The transition from montane sclerophyllous forest to ericoid thicket may occur at different elevations.
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