Assessing the role of competition and stress: a critique of importance indices and the development of a new approach

Importance versus intensity of ecological effects: why context matters

(2011) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Partitioning the Components of Relative Growth Rate: How Important Is Plant Size Variation?

(2010) Mark Rees et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Towards a more exact definition of the importance of competition - a reply to Freckleton et al. (2009)

(2010) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitating an importance index

(2010) Merav Seifan et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of competition on tree radial-growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients

(2010) Georges Kunstler et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Using three pairs of competitive indices to test for changes in plant competition under different resource and disturbance levels

(2010) Cameron N. Carlyle et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Direct and indirect interactions among plants explain counterintuitive positive drought effects on an eastern Mediterranean shrub species

(2010) Merav Seifan et al.   OIKOS

Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities

(2009) Robert P. Freckleton et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species-specific disturbance tolerance, competition and positive interactions along an anthropogenic disturbance gradient

(2009) Tania Villarreal-Barajas et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Interaction intensity and importance along two stress gradients: adding shape to the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2009) Peter Christiaan le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

Strain and vegetation effects on local limiting resources explain the outcomes of biotic interactions

(2009) N. Gross et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Importance: an overlooked concept in plant interaction research

(2008) Rob W. Brooker et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms

(2008) Eric G. Lamb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY