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Ecological Facilitation May Drive Major Evolutionary Transitions

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Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

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Positive density dependence in seedlings of the neotropical tree speciesGarcinia macrophyllaandXylopia micans

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Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

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Temporal shifts from facilitation to competition occur between closely related taxa

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Switching from negative to positive density-dependence among populations of a cobble beach plant

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Increasing intraspecific facilitation in exposed environments: consistent results from mountain birch populations in two subarctic stress gradients

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Interactions between mountain birch seedlings from differentiated populations in contrasting environments of subarctic Russia

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