Advancing the Monitoring of Traditional Meadow Orchards: Current Approaches and Future Directions

We exemplify unimodal regional wind systems facilitating sand transport toward Tillandsiales. Tillandsiales show a low-energy wind system allowing sand accumulation of predominant grain sizes available at each site. Thereby Tillandsia landbeckii modifies and maintains its own microenvironment. Genomic data reveal high clonality and excess of heterozygosity promoting fitness in a hyperarid environment, and abiotic factors drive the selection of diverse and adaptive Tillandsia phenotypes.