Combined Grazing and Drought Stress Alter the Outcome of Nurse: Beneficiary Interactions in a Semi-arid Ecosystem

The effect of consumer pressure and abiotic stress on positive plant interactions are mediated by extreme climatic events

(2017) Alessandro Filazzola et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Facilitation in communities: underlying mechanisms, community and ecosystem implications

(2016) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Recent negative trends of wild rabbit populations in southern Spain after the arrival of the new variant of the rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus RHDV2

(2016) José Guerrero-Casado et al.   MAMMALIAN BIOLOGY

Grazing Effects on Precipitation-Driven Associations between Sagebrush and Perennial Grasses

(2016) Maike F. Holthuijzen et al.   WESTERN NORTH AMERICAN NATURALIST

Local Facilitation May Cause Tipping Points on a Landscape Level Preceded by Early-Warning Indicators

(2015) Chi Xu et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Directversusindirect facilitation (herbivore mediated) among woody plants in a semiarid Chaco forest: A spatial association approach

(2015) Andrés Tálamo et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Spatial and temporal aridity gradients provide poor proxies for plant-plant interactions under climate change: a large-scale experiment

(2015) Johannes Metz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Does the stress-gradient hypothesis hold water? Disentangling spatial and temporal variation in plant effects on soil moisture in dryland systems

(2015) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Does extreme environmental severity promote plant facilitation? An experimental field test in a subtropical coastal dune

(2015) Camila T. Castanho et al.   OECOLOGIA

The relative contribution of short-term versus long-term effects in shrub-understory species interactions under arid conditions

(2015) Zouhaier Noumi et al.   OECOLOGIA

Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Extreme weather events and plant–plant interactions: shifts between competition and facilitation among grassland species in the face of drought and heavy rainfall

(2014) Kerstin Grant et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Extreme stresses, niches, and positive species interactions along stress gradients

(2014) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY

Shrubs facilitating seedling performance in ungulate-dominated systems: biotic versus abiotic mechanisms of plant facilitation

(2014) Ramón Perea et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Drought and grazing combined: Contrasting shifts in plant interactions at species pair and community level

(2014) Mart Verwijmeren et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Importance, but not intensity of plant interactions relates to species diversity under the interplay of stress and disturbance

(2014) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   OIKOS

Mechanisms of plant-plant interactions: concealment from herbivores is more important than abiotic-stress mediation in an African savannah

(2014) A. M. Louthan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

(2013) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Interspecific facilitation and critical transitions in arid ecosystems

(2012) Mart Verwijmeren et al.   OIKOS

Changes in Semi-Arid Plant Species Associations along a Livestock Grazing Gradient

(2012) Hugo Saiz et al.   PLoS One

Structure and spatial self-organization of semi-arid communities through plant–plant co-occurrence networks

(2011) H. Saiz et al.   Ecological Complexity

Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: Mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function

(2011) F.I. Pugnaire et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Testing the role of biotic stress in the stress gradient hypothesis. Processes and patterns in arid rangelands

(2011) Pamela Graff et al.   OIKOS

Assessing occurrence, specificity, and mechanisms of plant facilitation in terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

How to fit nonlinear plant growth models and calculate growth rates: an update for ecologists

(2011) C. E. Timothy Paine et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of cattle and rabbit grazing on clonal expansion of spiny shrubs in wood-pastures

(2010) Christian Smit et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited

(2010) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Temporal dynamics of herbivory and water availability interactively modulate the outcome of a grass-shrub interaction in a semi-arid ecosystem

(2010) Santiago Soliveres et al.   OIKOS

Factors and interactions controlling infiltration, runoff, and soil loss at the microscale in a patchy Mediterranean semiarid landscape

(2009) Ángeles G. Mayor et al.   EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS

Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis

(2009) Christian Smit 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

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

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

Spatial patterns of recruitment in Mediterranean plant species: linking the fate of seeds, seedlings and saplings in heterogeneous landscapes at different scales

(2008) Lorena Gómez-Aparicio   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Importance: an overlooked concept in plant interaction research

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