Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

(2013) B. J. Butterfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do Antarctic lichens modify microclimate and facilitate vascular plants in the maritime Antarctic? A comment to Molina-Montenegro et al. ()

(2013) Angélica Casanova-Katny et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Facilitation displaces hotspots of diversity and allows communities to persist in heavily stressed and disturbed environments

(2013) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Life at the edge, cooperation in Antarctica

(2013) Ragan M. Callaway   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Testing the Stress-Gradient Hypothesis at the Roof of the World: Effects of the Cushion Plant Thylacospermum caespitosum on Species Assemblages

(2013) Miroslav Dvorský et al.   PLoS One

The interplay of stress and mowing disturbance for the intensity and importance of plant interactions in dry calcareous grasslands

(2012) Jean-Paul Maalouf et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Integrating climate change into calcareous grassland management

(2012) Jean-Paul Maalouf et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Facilitation by tussock-forming species on seedling establishment collapses in an extreme drought year in a post-minedSphagnumpeatland

(2012) Asuka Koyama et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Positive interactions between the lichenUsnea antarctica(Parmeliaceae) and the native flora in Maritime Antarctica

(2012) Marco A. Molina-Montenegro et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Disentangling the effects of water and nutrients for studying the outcome of plant interactions in sand dune ecosystems

(2012) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Interspecific facilitation and critical transitions in arid ecosystems

(2012) Mart Verwijmeren et al.   OIKOS

Cushions of Thylacospermum caespitosum (Caryophyllaceae) do not facilitate other plants under extreme altitude and dry conditions in the north-west Himalayas

(2011) Francesco de Bello et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Release from competition and protection determine the outcome of plant interactions along a grazing gradient

(2011) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   OIKOS

Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited

(2010) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

What does the stress-gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies

(2010) Dan Malkinson et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Contrasting community responses to fertilization and the role of the competitive ability of dominant species

(2009) P. Liancourt et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The role of biotic interactions in altering tree seedling responses to an extreme climatic event

(2009) Patrick Saccone et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   OECOLOGIA

The interplay between species’ positive and negative interactions shapes the community biomass-species richness relationship

(2009) Sa Xiao et al.   OIKOS

Does disturbance drive the collapse of biotic interactions at the severe end of a diversity–biomass gradient?

(2009) Estelle Forey et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY