Life form-specific facilitative interactions determine plant biodiversity in global drylands

Nurse shrubs influence plant biodiversity across environmental gradients in rocky outcrops and surrounding rangelands

(2023) Fahime Rafiee et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant–plant interactions determine taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity in severe ecosystems

(2022) Maral Bashirzadeh et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mapping South America’s Drylands through Remote Sensing—A Review of the Methodological Trends and Current Challenges

(2022) Khalil Ali Ganem et al.   Remote Sensing

Changes in plant biodiversity facets of rocky outcrops and their surrounding rangelands across precipitation and soil gradients

(2022) Fahime Rafiee et al.   Scientific Reports

Plant–plant interactions determine natural restoration of plant biodiversity over time, in a degraded mined land

(2022) Maral Bashirzadeh et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities

(2021) Gianalberto Losapio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Low spatial autocorrelation in mountain biodiversity data and model residuals

(2021) Mathieu Chevalier et al.   Ecosphere

Biogeography of global drylands

(2021) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Co‐occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions

(2020) F. Guillaume Blanchet et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nurse plants promote taxonomic and functional diversity in an arid Mediterranean annual plant community

(2020) Jaime Madrigal‐González et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant–plant interactions influence phylogenetic diversity at multiple spatial scales in a semi-arid mountain rangeland

(2019) Maral Pashirzad et al.   OECOLOGIA

V.PhyloMaker: an R package that can generate very large phylogenies for vascular plants

(2019) Yi Jin et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Phylogenetic, functional, and taxonomic richness have both positive and negative effects on ecosystem multifunctionality

(2019) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiple processes at different spatial scales determine beta diversity patterns in a mountainous semi-arid rangeland of Khorassan-Kopet Dagh floristic province, NE Iran

(2019) Maral Pashirzad et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Facilitation of vascular plants by cushion mosses in high-Andean communities

(2019) Sabrina S. Gavini et al.   Alpine Botany

Responses of four dominant dryland plant species to climate change in the Junggar Basin, northwest China

(2019) Jian Xiao et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

(2018) Stephen A. Smith et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Can co-occurrence networks predict plant-plant interactions in a semi-arid gypsum community?

(2018) Léo Delalandre et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Phylogenetic diversity is a better measure of biodiversity than taxon counting

(2018) Joseph T. Miller et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Functional and phylogenetic diversity determine woody productivity in a temperate forest

(2018) MinHui Hao et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A guide to phylogenetic metrics for conservation, community ecology and macroecology

(2016) Caroline M. Tucker et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

On the link between functional traits and growth rate: meta-analysis shows effects change with plant size, as predicted

(2016) Anaïs Gibert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Evaluating Functional Diversity: Missing Trait Data and the Importance of Species Abundance Structure and Data Transformation

(2016) Maria Májeková et al.   PLoS One

iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers)

(2016) T. C. Hsieh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Species colonisation, not competitive exclusion, drives community overdispersion over long-term succession

(2015) Shao-peng Li et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An updated megaphylogeny of plants, a tool for generating plant phylogenies and an analysis of phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Expression of Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-2 in Resected Rectal Cancer

(2015) Xiangjiao Meng et al.   MEDICINE

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

(2015) Enrique Valencia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Local-scale Partitioning of Functional and Phylogenetic Beta Diversity in a Tropical Tree Assemblage

(2015) Jie Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

An updated megaphylogeny of plants, a tool for generating plant phylogenies and an analysis of phylogenetic community structure

(2015) Hong Qian et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

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

Climate and soil attributes determine plant species turnover in global drylands

(2014) Werner Ulrich et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands

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

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

Forest Structure in Low-Diversity Tropical Forests: A Study of Hawaiian Wet and Dry Forests

(2014) Rebecca Ostertag et al.   PLoS One

Integrating environmental, molecular, and morphological data to unravel an ice-age radiation of arctic-alpineCampanulain western North America

(2014) Eric G. DeChaine et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

Plant functional effects on ecosystem services

(2013) Sandra Lavorel   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

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

Co-occurrence Patterns along a Regional Aridity Gradient of the Subtropical Andes Do Not Support Stress Gradient Hypotheses

(2013) Ramiro Pablo López et al.   PLoS One

The influence of trees on nutrients, water, light availability and understorey vegetation in an arid environment

(2012) F. Abdallah et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant trait responses to the environment and effects on ecosystem properties

(2012) Patrick Lienin et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Coverage-based rarefaction and extrapolation: standardizing samples by completeness rather than size

(2012) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantifying the functional responses of vegetation to drought and oxygen stress in temperate ecosystems

(2012) Jacob C. Douma et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2012) M. Jankju   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Environmental conditions and biotic interactions acting together promote phylogenetic randomness in semi-arid plant communities: new methods help to avoid misleading conclusions

(2012) Santiago Soliveres et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

taxonstand: An r package for species names standardisation in vegetation databases

(2012) Luis Cayuela et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast

(2011) J. Cortina et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

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

Species-specificity of nurse plants for the establishment, survivorship, and growth of a columnar cactus

(2010) Juan Pablo Castillo Landero et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Regeneration niche differentiates functional strategies of desert woody plant species

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   OECOLOGIA

Grass-to-tree facilitation in an arid grazed environment (Aïr Mountains, Sahara)

(2009) Fabien Anthelme et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

(2009) Gregory S. Okin et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Community assembly and shifts in plant trait distributions across an environmental gradient in coastal California

(2009) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Global patterns in plant height

(2009) Angela T. Moles et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta-analysis across life-forms and ecosystems

(2009) Lorena Gómez-Aparicio   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A Network of Conserved Damage Survival Pathways Revealed by a Genomic RNAi Screen

(2009) Dashnamoorthy Ravi et al.   PLoS Genetics

Phylocom: software for the analysis of phylogenetic community structure and trait evolution

(2008) Campbell O. Webb et al.   BIOINFORMATICS