Unexpected mechanisms sustain the stress gradient hypothesis in a tropical alpine environment

Introduction: Elevation gradients in the tropics: laboratories for ecosystem ecology and global change research

(2010) Y. MALHI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Potential impacts of climate change on the environmental services of humid tropical alpine regions

(2010) Wouter Buytaert et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Facilitating an importance index

(2010) Merav Seifan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Positive associations between the cushion plant Arenaria polytrichoides (Caryophyllaceae) and other alpine plant species increase with altitude in the Sino-Himalayas

(2010) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Do Facilitative Interactions with Neighboring Plants Assist the Growth of Seedlings at High Altitudes in Alpine Australia?

(2009) Susanna E. Venn et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Grass-to-tree facilitation in an arid grazed environment (Aïr Mountains, Sahara)

(2009) Fabien Anthelme et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Longitudinal zonation of macroinvertebrates in an Ecuadorian glacier-fed stream: do tropical glacial systems fit the temperate model?

(2009) DEAN JACOBSEN et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Do facilitative interactions increase species richness at the entire community level?

(2009) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Understanding and modeling the physical processes that govern the melting of snow cover in a tropical mountain environment in Ecuador

(2009) P. Wagnon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Experimental comparison of competition and facilitation in alpine communities varying in productivity

(2009) Vladimir G. Onipchenko et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Interaction intensity and importance along two stress gradients: adding shape to the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2009) Peter Christiaan le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

Biogenic habitat creation affects biomass–diversity relationships in plant communities

(2009) Ernesto I. Badano et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Strain and vegetation effects on local limiting resources explain the outcomes of biotic interactions

(2009) N. Gross et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Floristic changes in alpine plant communities induced by the cushion plant Azorella madreporica (Apiaceae) in the Andes of central Chile

(2009) CONSTANZA L QUIROZ et al.   REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL

The Geographical and Institutional Distribution of Ecological Research in the Tropics

(2008) Gabriela Stocks et al.   BIOTROPICA

Presence of cushion plants increases community diversity in the high equatorial Andes

(2008) Petr Sklenář   FLORA

Importance: an overlooked concept in plant interaction research

(2008) Rob W. Brooker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Spatial variation in plant interactions across a severity gradient in the sub-Antarctic

(2008) Peter C. le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2008) Janne K. Eränen et al.   OIKOS

Spatial patterns in cushion-dominated plant communities of the high Andes of central Chile: How frequent are positive associations?

(2007) Alex Fajardo et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE