The concept and measurement of importance: a comment on Reeset al. 2012

Plant ecology's guilty little secret: understanding the dynamics of plant competition

(2013) Clare J. Trinder et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Competition on productivity gradients - what do we expect?

(2012) Mark Rees   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2012) Mark Rees et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of resource availability on plant recruitment at the community level in a Mediterranean mountain ecosystem

(2011) Luis Matías et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Conceptualizing importance: response to Freckleton and Rees

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

Importance versus intensity of ecological effects: why context matters

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

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

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

What does the stress-gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies

(2010) Dan Malkinson et al.   OIKOS

Effects of competition on great and blue tit reproduction: intensity and importance in relation to habitat quality

(2009) André A. Dhondt   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Measuring the importance of competition in plant communities

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

Refining the stress-gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

When Competition Does Not Matter: Grassland Diversity and Community Composition

(2008) Eric G. Lamb et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Importance: an overlooked concept in plant interaction research

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