Giant stem rosettes have strong facilitation effects on alpine plant communities in the tropical Andes

Phylogenomic Analysis of the Explosive Adaptive Radiation of the Espeletia Complex (Asteraceae) in the Tropical Andes

(2018) Charles Pouchon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Resistance of plant-plant networks to biodiversity loss and secondary extinctions following simulated environmental changes

(2017) Gianalberto Losapio et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Alpine cushion plants have species-specific effects on microhabitat and community structure in the tropical Andes

(2017) Nicole Hupp et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Fine nurse variations explain discrepancies in the stress-interaction relationship in alpine regions

(2017) Fabien Anthelme et al.   OIKOS

Nurse species and indirect facilitation through grazing drive plant community functional traits in tropical alpine peatlands

(2017) Alain Danet et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Geography shapes the phylogeny of frailejones (Espeletiinae Cuatrec., Asteraceae): a remarkable example of recent rapid radiation in sky islands

(2017) Mauricio Diazgranados et al.   PeerJ

Temperature Microclimates of Plants in a Tropical Alpine Environment: How Much does Growth Form Matter?

(2016) Petr Sklenář et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Evidence of Facilitation Cascade Processes as Drivers of Successional Patterns of Ecosystem Engineers at the Upper Altitudinal Limit of the Dry Puna

(2016) Luca Malatesta et al.   PLoS One

Facilitation among plants as an insurance policy for diversity in Alpine communities

(2015) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The Afro-alpine dwarf shrubHelichrysum citrispinumfavours understorey plants through microclimate amelioration

(2015) Andreas H. Schweiger et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

A systematic review and conceptual framework for the mechanistic pathways of nurse plants

(2014) Alessandro Filazzola et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking patterns and processes through ecosystem engineering: effects of shrubs on microhabitat and water status of associated plants in the high tropical Andes

(2014) Lirey A. Ramírez et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Shrubs as foundation species in a high tropical alpine ecosystem: a multi-scale analysis of plant spatial interactions

(2014) Yolanda Cáceres et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Páramo is the world's fastest evolving and coolest biodiversity hotspot

(2013) Santiago Madriñán et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Plant–plant interactions in tropical alpine environments

(2012) Fabien Anthelme et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Unexpected mechanisms sustain the stress gradient hypothesis in a tropical alpine environment

(2011) Fabien Anthelme et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

Slope orientation enhances the nurse effect of a paramo shrub, Hypericum irazuense (Hypericaceae) in Costa Rica

(2009) Alejandro G. Farji-Brener et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Presence of cushion plants increases community diversity in the high equatorial Andes

(2008) Petr Sklenář   FLORA

Geographic variation in the response to thermal acclimation in rufous-collared sparrows: are physiological flexibility and environmental heterogeneity correlated?

(2008) G. Cavieres et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY