Communities: are they groups of hidden interactions?

Do indirect interactions always contribute to net indirect facilitation?

(2013) Sa Xiao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Direct and indirect interactions co-determine species composition in nurse plant systems

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   OIKOS

Functional species pool framework to test for biotic effects on community assembly

(2012) Francesco de Bello et al.   ECOLOGY

An experimental test of the response of macroecological patterns to altered species interactions

(2012) S. R. Supp et al.   ECOLOGY

Accounting for dispersal and biotic interactions to disentangle the drivers of species distributions and their abundances

(2012) Isabelle Boulangeat et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A guide for using functional diversity indices to reveal changes in assembly processes along ecological gradients

(2012) Norman W.H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity

(2012) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

(2011) Fabien Anthelme et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Acer negundo invasion along a successional gradient: early direct facilitation by native pioneers and late indirect facilitation by conspecifics

(2010) Patrick Saccone et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Don’t Diss Integration: A Comment on Ricklefs’s Disintegrating Communities

(2009) Rob W. Brooker et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

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

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

(2009) Sa Xiao et al.   OIKOS

Assessing facilitative responses to a nurse shrub at the community level: the example of Potentilla fruticosa in a sub-alpine grassland of northwest China

(2009) J. Xu et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY