Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

(2013) B. J. Butterfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing the Stress-Gradient Hypothesis at the Roof of the World: Effects of the Cushion Plant Thylacospermum caespitosum on Species Assemblages

(2013) Miroslav Dvorský et al.   PLoS One

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

(2012) Lauchlan H Fraser et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Cushions of Thylacospermum caespitosum (Caryophyllaceae) do not facilitate other plants under extreme altitude and dry conditions in the north-west Himalayas

(2011) Francesco de Bello et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

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

Whole-Community Facilitation Regulates Biodiversity on Patagonian Rocky Shores

(2011) Brian R. Silliman et al.   PLoS One

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

More diverse plant communities have higher functioning over time due to turnover in complementary dominant species

(2011) E. Allan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A definition of mountains and their bioclimatic belts for global comparisons of biodiversity data

(2011) Christian Körner et al.   Alpine Botany

The effect of positive interactions on community structure in a multi-species metacommunity model along an environmental gradient

(2010) Elise Filotas et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Latitudinal variation in local interactions and regional enrichment shape patterns of marine community diversity

(2010) Amy L. Freestone et al.   ECOLOGY

Don’t Diss Integration: A Comment on Ricklefs’s Disintegrating Communities

(2009) Rob W. Brooker et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Plant interactions are unimportant in a subarctic–alpine plant community

(2009) Matthew G. E. Mitchell et al.   ECOLOGY

Do facilitative interactions increase species richness at the entire community level?

(2009) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The Red Queen and the Court Jester: Species Diversity and the Role of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Through Time

(2009) M. J. Benton   SCIENCE

Disintegration of the Ecological Community

(2008) Robert E. Ricklefs   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Toward a better understanding of the regional causes of local community richness

(2008) Susan Harrison et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Positive interactions among competitors can produce species-rich communities

(2008) Kevin Gross   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Patterns of plant species richness in Alpine hay meadows: Local vs. landscape controls

(2007) Lorenzo Marini et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY