Check our new paper on liana community structure in Ghana. We investigated environmental and forest structural drivers of liana diversity, abundance and basal area: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70124

With funding support from IFS, Sweden.
#tropics #lianas #climbingplants #ecology

Lianas are taking over the rainforests, and it's visible from space

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-lianas-rainforests-visible-space.html

#HackerNews #Lianas #Rainforests #Space #Ecology #Nature #Conservation

#Lianas, #trees show varied stem #xylem structure-function link.

#water #transport #biomechanics

https://phys.org/news/2024-03-lianas-trees-varied-stem-xylem.html

Tarzan won't be swinging from lianas any more...
and the language of 'liberating trees'.

A “study found that removing woody vines, also known as #Lianas, from five to 10 trees per hectare was a cost-effective way to increase timber yields while also increasing the absorption of carbon by the liberated trees.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-07/vine-control-could-improve-tree-health-absorb-more-carbon/102297386

“Liana-infested future crop trees”
"Liana cutting in selectively logged forests increases both carbon sequestration and timber yields
Liberating future crop trees from lianas is a cost-effective way to increase rates of carbon sequestration, increase timber yields, and restore degraded forest."
"Infestations of trees by woody climbing plants (i.e., lianas) are common and increasing in an estimated 250 Mha of the 1 billion hectares of mixed-species tropical and temperate forest subjected to selective logging. Cutting lianas that impede the growth of future crop trees (FCTs) in these forests would sequester carbon at low cost and increase timber yields."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378112723002724
#Logging #Language #Framing #Tropical #Forests #Ecosystems #Rainforest #Vines #Wildlife #Habitat #Biodiversity