Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition

How to quantify competitive ability

(2018) Simon P. Hart et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do persistent rare species experience stronger negative frequency dependence than common species?

(2017) Glenda Yenni et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity effects in the wild are common and as strong as key drivers of productivity

(2017) J. Emmett Duffy et al.   NATURE

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

(2017) Joseph A. LaManna et al.   SCIENCE

The spatial scales of species coexistence

(2017) Simon P. Hart et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

How to quantify the temporal storage effect using simulations instead of math

(2016) Stephen P. Ellner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity

(2016) W. Stanley Harpole et al.   NATURE

Direct effects dominate responses to climate perturbations in grassland plant communities

(2016) Chengjin Chu et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2015) Chengjin Chu et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler et al.   NATURE

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

Phylogenetic relatedness and the determinants of competitive outcomes

(2014) Oscar Godoy et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Simultaneous intraspecific facilitation and interspecific competition between native and annual grasses

(2014) Roger L. Sheley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival

(2014) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Response of tree growth and species coexistence to density and species evenness in a young forest plantation with two competing species

(2013) Catherine Collet et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Insect herbivores change the outcome of plant competition through both inter- and intraspecific processes

(2013) Tania N. Kim et al.   ECOLOGY

Does relatedness matter? Phylogenetic density-dependent survival of seedlings in a tropical forest

(2013) Edwin Lebrija-Trejos et al.   ECOLOGY

Phenology effects on invasion success: insights from coupling field experiments to coexistence theory

(2013) Oscar Godoy et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial pattern of trees influences species productivity in a mature oak–pine mixed forest

(2013) Marie Ange Ngo Bieng et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Complementarity in mixed-species stands of Abies alba and Picea abies varies with climate, site quality and stand density

(2013) David I. Forrester et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Indirect effects and facilitation among native and non-native species promote invasion success along an environmental stress gradient

(2013) Phoebe L. Zarnetske et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species-rich assemblage

(2013) Carlos Martorell et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Seasonal differentiation in density-dependent seedling survival in a tropical rain forest

(2012) Luxiang Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The performance of Mediterranean subshrubs depends more on microsite than on regional climate conditions

(2012) Antonio Gazol et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Grazing-induced effects on soil properties modify plant competitive interactions in semi-natural mountain grasslands

(2012) Eduardo Medina-Roldán et al.   OECOLOGIA

On a collision course: competition and dispersal differences create no-analogue communities and cause extinctions during climate change

(2012) M. C. Urban et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity

(2012) D. J. Johnson et al.   SCIENCE

Sustained dynamic transience in a Lotka–Volterra competition model system for grassland species

(2011) I.R. Geijzendorffer et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Neighbour interactions strengthen with increased soil resources in a northern hardwood forest

(2011) Thomas W. Baribault et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The balance between facilitation and competition in mixtures of Eucalyptus and Acacia changes as stands develop

(2011) David I. Forrester et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spatial pattern formation and relative importance of intra- and interspecific competition in codominant tree species, Podocarpus nagi and Neolitsea aciculata

(2010) Satoshi Nanami et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

On the evidence for species coexistence: a critique of the coexistence program

(2010) Adam M. Siepielski et al.   ECOLOGY

Do position and species identity of neighbours matter in 8–15-year-old post harvest mesic stands in the boreal mixedwood?

(2010) Frédéric Boivin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

(2010) Scott A. Mangan et al.   NATURE

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

(2010) James D. Bever et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Time Lags and the Balance of Positive and Negative Interactions in Driving Grassland Community Dynamics

(2009) Emily C. Farrer et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Endangered, apparently: the role of apparent competition in endangered species conservation

(2009) N. J. DeCesare et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Local neighborhood and species' shade tolerance influence survival in a diverse seedling bank

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   ECOLOGY

Plant invasions and the niche

(2009) Andrew S. MacDougall et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

(2009) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Functional tradeoffs determine species coexistence via the storage effect

(2009) Amy L. Angert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant-soil feedbacks: a meta-analytical review

(2008) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nitrogen Enhances the Competitive Ability of Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) Relative to Native Grasses

(2008) Edward Vasquez et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management