Everything you always wanted to know about intransitive competition but were afraid to ask

Functional traits and environmental characteristics drive the degree of competitive intransitivity in European saltmarsh plant communities

(2018) Werner Ulrich et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Emergence of weak-intransitive competition through adaptive diversification and eco-evolutionary feedbacks

(2018) Laure Gallien et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Exploring the performance of intransitivity indices in predicting coexistence in multispecies systems

(2018) Robert A. Laird et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intransitive competition is common across five major taxonomic groups and is driven by productivity, competitive rank and functional traits

(2018) Santiago Soliveres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cyclic population dynamics and density-dependent intransitivity as pathways to coexistence between co-occurring annual plants

(2018) Daniel B. Stouffer et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

An experimental extreme drought reduces the likelihood of species to coexist despite increasing intransitivity in competitive networks

(2018) Luis Matías et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Towards the Integration of Niche and Network Theories

(2018) Oscar Godoy et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

Intransitive competition and its effects on community functional diversity

(2017) Laure Gallien   OIKOS

Competitive network determines the direction of the diversity–function relationship

(2017) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity begets diversity in competition for space

(2017) Daniel S. Maynard et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Intraspecific genetic variation and species coexistence in plant communities

(2016) Bodil K. Ehlers et al.   Biology Letters

Strong invaders are strong defenders - implications for the resistance of invaded communities

(2016) Anna Henriksson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Competitive interactions change the pattern of species co-occurrences under neutral dispersal

(2016) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Interspecific interactions through 2 million years: are competitive outcomes predictable?

(2016) Lee Hsiang Liow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dissecting the role of transitivity and intransitivity on coexistence in competing species networks

(2016) Julio M. Alcántara et al.   Theoretical Ecology

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

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

Evolutionarily Driven Shifts in Communities with Intraguild Predation

(2015) Swati Patel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

(2015) Santiago Soliveres et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Intransitivity in Theory and in the Real World

(2015) Alexander Klimenko   Entropy

Plant functional traits have globally consistent effects on competition

(2015) Georges Kunstler 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

Inferring species interactions in ecological communities: a comparison of methods at different levels of complexity

(2015) Francesco Carrara et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Selection for niche differentiation in plant communities increases biodiversity effects

(2014) Debra Zuppinger-Dingley et al.   NATURE

Matrix models for quantifying competitive intransitivity from species abundance data

(2014) Werner Ulrich et al.   OIKOS

Mesoscopic Interactions and Species Coexistence in Evolutionary Game Dynamics of Cyclic Competitions

(2014) Hongyan Cheng et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatial heterogeneity promotes coexistence of rock–paper–scissors metacommunities

(2013) Sebastian J. Schreiber et al.   THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY

Experimental plant communities develop phylogenetically overdispersed abundance distributions during assembly

(2012) Eric Allan et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics Enable Coexistence via Neighbor-Dependent Selection

(2011) David A. Vasseur et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Microhabitat amelioration and reduced competition among understorey plants as drivers of facilitation across environmental gradients: Towards a unifying framework

(2011) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

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

(2011) Shiting Zhang et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

Plant-soil feedbacks contribute to an intransitive competitive network that promotes both genetic and species diversity

(2010) Richard A. Lankau et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Competition increases with abiotic stress and regulates the diversity of biological soil crusts

(2010) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Preemption of space can lead to intransitive coexistence of competitors

(2010) Kyle F. Edwards et al.   OIKOS

Parasite-grass-forb interactions and rock-paper- scissor dynamics: predicting the effects of the parasitic plantRhinanthus minoron host plant communities

(2009) Duncan D. Cameron et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species coexistence, intransitivity, and topological variation in competitive tournaments

(2008) Robert A. Laird et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY