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Are endemic species necessarily ecological specialists? Functional variability and niche differentiation of two threatened Dianthus species in the montane steppes of northeastern Iran

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Enhanced facilitation at the extreme end of the aridity gradient in the Atacama Desert: a community-level approach

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A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world-wide

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A review of plant diversity, vegetation, and phytogeography of the Khorassan-Kopet Dagh floristic province in the Irano-Turanian region (northeastern Iran–southern Turkmenistan)

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

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Plant-plant interactions as a mechanism structuring plant diversity in a Mediterranean semi-arid ecosystem

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Grass-Shrub Associations over a Precipitation Gradient and Their Implications for Restoration in the Great Basin, USA

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

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Understanding the effects of a new grazing policy: the impact of seasonal grazing on shrub demography in the Inner Mongolian steppe

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Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

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

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Sagebrush carrying out hydraulic lift enhances surface soil nitrogen cycling and nitrogen uptake into inflorescences

(2013) Z. G. Cardon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Role of nurse shrubs in restoration of an arid rangeland: Effects of microclimate on grass establishment

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

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

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

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

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(2008) M. Jankju   ARID LAND RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT

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