A size-gradient hypothesis for alpine treeline ecotones

Facilitation in communities: underlying mechanisms, community and ecosystem implications

(2016) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Shifting grassland plant community structure drives positive interactive effects of warming and diversity on aboveground net primary productivity

(2016) Jane M. Cowles et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Competition among plants can lead to an increase in aggregation of smaller plants around larger ones

(2015) Yoshiaki Nakagawa et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

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

(2015) Kari Anne Bråthen et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Diversity differs among three variations of the stress gradients hypothesis in two representations of niche space

(2015) George P Malanson   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Neighborhood functions alter unbalanced facilitation on a stress gradient

(2015) George P. Malanson et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

When it gets cold, plant size matters - a comment on treeline

(2015) Christian Körner   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The Afro-alpine dwarf shrubHelichrysum citrispinumfavours understorey plants through microclimate amelioration

(2015) Andreas H. Schweiger et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

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

Living close to your neighbors: the importance of both competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2014) Alexandra Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Soil nutrient availability determines the facilitative effects of cushion plants on other plant species at high elevations in the south-eastern Himalayas

(2014) Jianguo Chen et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Differences between symmetric and asymmetric facilitation matter: exploring the interplay between modes of positive and negative plant interactions

(2013) Yue Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Ontogenetic shifts in plant interactions vary with environmental severity and affect population structure

(2013) Peter C. le Roux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ecologists should not use statistical significance tests to interpret simulation model results

(2013) J. Wilson White et al.   OIKOS

The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling

(2012) Mary Susanne Wisz et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Size dependence, facilitation, and microhabitats mediate space competition between coral and crustose coralline algae in a spatially explicit model

(2012) Kate E. Buenau et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence

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

Mountain Treelines: A Roadmap for Research Orientation

(2011) George P. Malanson et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Modeling competition between plants using an Individual Based Model: Methods and effects on the growth of two species with contrasted growth forms

(2011) A.-K. Bittebiere et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Competition, species interaction and ageing control tree mortality in boreal forests

(2011) Yong Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitation can maintain clustered spatial pattern of plant populations during density-dependent mortality: insights from a zone-of-influence model

(2010) Xin Jia et al.   OIKOS

Wind as an Ecological Agent at Treelines in North America, the Alps, and the European Subarctic

(2010) Friedrich-Karl Holtmeier et al.   PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

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

Spatial variation in plant interactions across a severity gradient in the sub-Antarctic

(2008) Peter C. le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

Competition among plants: Concepts, individual-based modelling approaches, and a proposal for a future research strategy

(2008) Uta Berger et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS