Trade-off between competition and facilitation defines gap colonization in mountains

Daily environmental conditions determine the competition-facilitation balance for plant water status

(2015) Alexandra Wright et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Living close to your neighbors: the importance of both competition and facilitation in plant communities

(2014) Alexandra Wright et al.   ECOLOGY

Alien Roadside Species More Easily Invade Alpine than Lowland Plant Communities in a Subarctic Mountain Ecosystem

(2014) Jonas J. Lembrechts et al.   PLoS One

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

Facilitation of the non-native annual plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum (Aizoaceae) by the endemic cactus Eulychnia acida (Cactaceae) in the Atacama Desert

(2012) Jaime Madrigal-González et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Effect of gap size, aspect and slope on available light and soil temperature after patch-selection cutting in yellow birch–conifer stands, Quebec, Canada

(2012) Marcel Prévost et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Effects of forest gaps on some microclimate variables in Castanopsis kawakamii natural forest

(2012) Zhongsheng He et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Canopy gap size influences niche partitioning of the ground-layer plant community in a northern temperate forest

(2012) Christel C. Kern et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Establishment and spatial associations of recruits in meadow gaps

(2012) Pavel Fibich et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant community type and small-scale disturbances, but not altitude, influence the invasibility in subarctic ecosystems

(2012) Ann Milbau et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root niche partitioning among grasses, saplings, and trees measured using a tracer technique

(2012) Andrew Kulmatiski et al.   OECOLOGIA

The interplay between above- and below-ground plant-plant interactions along an environmental gradient: insights from two-layer zone-of-influence models

(2012) Wei-Ping Zhang et al.   OIKOS

Assessing the importance of disturbance, site conditions, and the biotic barrier for dandelion invasion in an Alpine habitat

(2011) Constanza L. Quiroz et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Processes at multiple scales affect richness and similarity of non-native plant species in mountains around the world

(2011) Tim Seipel et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Colonization of experimentally created gaps along an alpine successional gradient

(2011) Kay Cichini et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Untangling positive and negative biotic interactions: views from above and below ground in a forest ecosystem

(2010) Rebecca A. Montgomery et al.   ECOLOGY

Species recruitment in alpine plant communities: the role of species interactions and productivity

(2010) Kari Klanderud   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited

(2010) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Surface temperature lapse rates over complex terrain: Lessons from the Cascade Mountains

(2010) Justin R. Minder et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Facilitation can maintain clustered spatial pattern of plant populations during density-dependent mortality: insights from a zone-of-influence model

(2010) Xin Jia et al.   OIKOS

Vegetation–environment interactions in a sub-arctic primary succession

(2010) Nick Cutler   POLAR BIOLOGY

Assembly of nonnative floras along elevational gradients explained by directional ecological filtering

(2010) J. M. Alexander et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The effects of gap size on some microclimate variables during late summer and autumn in a temperate broadleaved deciduous forest

(2009) Zulkiflee Abd Latif et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

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

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

Improving gap light index (GLI) to quickly calculate gap coordinates

(2008) Lile Hu et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Slope, aspect and climate: Spatially explicit and implicit models of topographic microclimate in chalk grassland

(2008) Jonathan Bennie et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Ain't no mountain high enough: plant invasions reaching new elevations

(2008) Aníbal Pauchard et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Controlling invasive annual grasses in grazed pastures: population dynamics and critical gap sizes

(2008) Katherine N. Tozer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY