Intransitive competition and its effects on community functional diversity

Delineating probabilistic species pools in ecology and biogeography

(2016) Dirk Nikolaus Karger et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Diversity Increases Indirect Interactions, Attenuates the Intensity of Competition, and Promotes Coexistence

(2015) Erik T. Aschehoug et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Large niche differences emerge at the recruitment stage to stabilize grassland coexistence

(2015) Chengjin Chu et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Intransitive competition is widespread in plant communities and maintains their species richness

(2015) Santiago Soliveres et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climatic drivers of trait assembly in woody plants in Japan

(2015) Takayuki Shiono et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Counteraction of antibiotic production and degradation stabilizes microbial communities

(2015) Eric D. Kelsic et al.   NATURE

Species interactions and random dispersal rather than habitat filtering drive community assembly during early plant succession

(2015) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Plant functional traits and the multidimensional nature of species coexistence

(2015) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Contrasting the effects of environment, dispersal and biotic interactions to explain the distribution of invasive plants in alpine communities

(2014) Laure Gallien et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Functional trait differences and the outcome of community assembly: an experimental test with vernal pool annual plants

(2014) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   OIKOS

Water-use efficiency and relative growth rate mediate competitive interactions in Sonoran Desert winter annual plants

(2013) Jennifer R. Gremer et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

A role for indirect facilitation in maintaining diversity in a guild of African acacia ants

(2013) Todd M. Palmer et al.   ECOLOGY

Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae

(2013) Anita Narwani et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Scale decisions can reverse conclusions on community assembly processes

(2013) Tamara Münkemüller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Constraining null models with environmental gradients: a new method for evaluating the effects of environmental factors and geometric constraints on geographic diversity patterns

(2012) Xiangping Wang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Competitive interactions between forest trees are driven by species' trait hierarchy, not phylogenetic or functional similarity: implications for forest community assembly

(2012) Georges Kunstler et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Antagonism influences assembly of a Bacillus guild in a local community and is depicted as a food-chain network

(2012) Rocío-Anaís Pérez-Gutiérrez et al.   ISME Journal

Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes

(2012) Marko J. Spasojevic et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Inferring local competition intensity from patch size distributions: a test using biological soil crusts

(2012) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   OIKOS

Competitive outcomes between two exotic invaders are modified by direct and indirect effects of a native conifer

(2012) Kerry L. Metlen et al.   OIKOS

Forcing by rare species and intransitive loops creates distinct bouts of extinction events conditioned by spatial pattern in competition communities

(2012) John Vandermeer   Theoretical Ecology

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Plant competitive ability and the transitivity of competitive hierarchies change with plant age

(2011) Shiting Zhang et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Plant Neighbour Identity Matters to Belowground Interactions under Controlled Conditions

(2011) Cristina Armas et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of restraint in a structured rock-paper-scissors community

(2011) J. R. Nahum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A competitive network theory of species diversity

(2011) S. Allesina et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intransitive loops in ecosystem models: From stable foci to heteroclinic cycles

(2010) John Vandermeer   Ecological Complexity

Functional trait and phylogenetic tests of community assembly across spatial scales in an Amazonian forest

(2010) Nathan J. B. Kraft et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Opposing effects of competitive exclusion on the phylogenetic structure of communities

(2010) Margaret M. Mayfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Preemption of space can lead to intransitive coexistence of competitors

(2010) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   OIKOS

Opposing assembly mechanisms in a Neotropical dry forest: implications for phylogenetic and functional community ecology

(2009) Nathan G. Swenson et al.   ECOLOGY

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Testing the spatial phylogenetic structure of local communities: statistical performances of different null models and test statistics on a locally neutral community

(2008) Olivier J. Hardy   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY