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cryptophyte

[′krip·tə‚fīt]

(botany)

A plant that produces buds either underwater or underground on corms, bulbs, or rhizomes.

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They represent 9% of the cryptophytes species, or 0.6% of all the species recorded in the study area.

Biological spectrum and dispersal syndromes in an area of the semi-arid region of north-eastern Brazil/Espectro biologico e sindromes de dispersao em uma area do semiarido do nordeste brasileiro

For instance, the solute-supported meromixis and the tendency to precipitate carbonate, even the dominance of cryptophytes in the stable part of the water column, and are similar to the features now recognized in Laguna de Guatavita.

Limnology in El Dorado: some surprising aspects of the regulation of phytoplankton productive capacity in a high-altitude Andean lake (Laguna de Guatavita, Colombia)

= November 2002 (early rainy season), Ph = phanerophyte, Ch = chamaephyte, H = hemicryptophyte, Cr = cryptophyte and Th = therophytes.

Species convergence into life-forms in a hyperseasonal cerrado in central Brazil/Convergencia de especies em formas de vida em um cerrado hiperestacional no Brasil central

The majority of taxa associated with Ageratina luciae-brauniae and/or Solidago albopilosa are phanerophytes (40%) or hemicryptophytes (36%); 2% are chamaephytes, 13% are cryptophytes, and 9% are therophytes.

Sandstone rockhouses of the Eastern United States, with particular reference to the ecology and evolution of the endemic plant taxa

Other small fast-growing, edible algae, such as most cryptophyte species, responded negatively to the nutrient and fish additions.

Effects of nutrients and planktivorous fish on the phytoplankton of shallow and deep aquatic systems

of Percentage Leaf size species classes Therophytes 31 39.74 Microphyll Megaphanerophytes 17 21.79 Mesophyll Nanophanerophytes 11 14.10 Nanophyll Cryptophytes 12 15.38 Macrophyll Hemicryptophytes 05 6.41 Leptophyll Chamaephytes 02 2.56 Megaphyll Aphyllous Life-form classes No.

Indigenous Utilization of Plant Biodiversity in Malakkheil-Kotkay Village, District Shangla, Pakistan

It was found that diatoms dominated phytoplankton biomass at all times (typically 50% or more of total phytoplankton biomass) followed by green algae (20 to 30%), cyanobacteria (10 to 20%), and cryptophytes (<10%).

10:15 AM - Noon Podium Session 4 Ecology and Environmental Science Mylander Room--BTSU 207

Riverine phytoplankton, consisting mostly of small-celled cryptophytes and diatoms (Sobczak et al., 2002; Piirsoo et al., 2007), the latter often originating in periphyton, are easily assimilated by aquatic invertebrates, especially collector-gatherers and filter feeders (Webster et al., 1999).

Changes in particulate organic matter passing through a large shallow lowland lake

Finally, free-living phytoplankton, including dinoflagellates, cryptophytes, diatoms, and prymnesiophytes, show no effect of lowered pH (within a range of ~7.0-8.5) on growth rates (Berge et al., 2010), emphasizing the lack of algal growth sensitivity to high pC[O.sub.2] exposure.

Effects of Temperature and pC[Osub.2] on population regulation of symbiodinium spp. in a tropical reef coral

El-Ghareeb and Rezk (1989) provided evidence that therophytes acquire dominance in less saline and more sandy habitats, while cryptophytes and chamaephytes in more saline habitats.

FLORISTIC DIVERSITY OF TABUK PROVINCE, NORTH SAUDI ARABIA

The vegetation, thus affected, includes shrubs, geophytes, hemi- cryptophytes, and annuals.

Digging and Clipping Behaviour of Indian Crested Porcupine, Hystrix indica Kerr, 1792 in a Green Belt of Islamabad, Pakistan

We considered only the life-form categories originally proposed by Raunkiaer: phanerophytes, chamaephytes, hemicryptophytes, cryptophytes and therophytes.