Facilitation in communities: underlying mechanisms, community and ecosystem implications

When can positive interactions cause alternative stable states in ecosystems?

(2016) Sonia Kéfi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Beneficiary feedback effects on alpine cushion benefactors become more negative with increasing cover of graminoids and in dry conditions

(2015) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional assessment of animal interactions with shrub-facilitation complexes: a formal synthesis and conceptual framework

(2015) Christopher J. Lortie et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

A portfolio effect of shrub canopy height on species richness in both stressful and competitive environments

(2015) Kari Anne Bråthen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Influence of soil microbiota in nurse plant systems

(2015) Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría 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

Facilitation among plants as an insurance policy for diversity in Alpine communities

(2015) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Facilitation and sustainable agriculture: a mechanistic approach to reconciling crop production and conservation

(2015) Rob W. Brooker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Facilitation and the niche: implications for coexistence, range shifts and ecosystem functioning

(2015) Fabio Bulleri et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Disentangling the heritable and plastic components of the competitive and facilitative effects of an alpine foundation species

(2015) Patrick Al Hayek et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of a legume shrub on its understorey community

(2015) Richard Michalet et al.   OIKOS

Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

(2015) L. H. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

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

Competition, facilitation and environmental severity shape the relationship between local and regional species richness in plant communities

(2014) Richard Michalet et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

(2014) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY

No evidence of facilitation collapse in the Tibetan plateau

(2014) Francisco I. Pugnaire et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Communities: are they groups of hidden interactions?

(2014) Richard Michalet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The context dependence of beneficiary feedback effects on benefactors in plant facilitation

(2014) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Plant–plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: A global synthesis of community-level studies

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

(2013) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Introduction to the Special Feature on Mechanisms of Plant Competition

(2013) David Robinson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Consequences of facilitation: one plant's benefit is another plant's cost

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

A role for below-ground biota in plant-plant facilitation

(2013) Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

A global analysis of bidirectional interactions in alpine plant communities shows facilitators experiencing strong reciprocal fitness costs

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

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

Soil microbial community under a nurse-plant species changes in composition, biomass and activity as the nurse grows

(2013) S. Hortal et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence

(2012) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Interspecific facilitation and critical transitions in arid ecosystems

(2012) Mart Verwijmeren et al.   OIKOS

Phenotypic variation in nurse traits and community feedbacks define an alpine community

(2011) Richard Michalet et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interactions among plants and evolution

(2011) Andrea S. Thorpe et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A field test of the stress-gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient

(2011) Cristina Armas et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited

(2010) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is the cask of facilitation ready for bottling? A symposium on the connectivity and future directions of positive plant interactions

(2009) R. J. Pakeman et al.   Biology Letters

Facilitation in the conceptual melting pot

(2009) Rob W. Brooker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

The evolution of facilitation and mutualism

(2009) Judith L. Bronstein   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 interplay between species’ positive and negative interactions shapes the community biomass-species richness relationship

(2009) Sa Xiao et al.   OIKOS