The importance of facilitation on community assembly disappears under severe drought stress

Are complementarity effects of species richness on productivity the strongest in species‐rich communities?

(2021) Richard Michalet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Complex biotic interactions mediated by shrubs: Revisiting the stress‐gradient hypothesis and consequences for tree seedling survival

(2020) Arthur Guignabert et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Scale‐dependence of ecological assembly rules: insights from empirical datasets and joint species distribution modelling

(2020) Heidi K. Mod et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Species‐specificity challenges the predictability of facilitation along a regional desert gradient

(2020) Alessandro Filazzola et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Along with intraspecific functional trait variation, individual performance is key to resolving community assembly processes

(2020) Jana Doudová et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Community‐scale effects and strain: Facilitation beyond conspicuous patterns

(2020) Pierre Liancourt et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Patch‐level facilitation fosters high‐Andean plant diversity at regional scales

(2020) Sabrina S. Gavini et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Direct and indirect facilitation affect community productivity through changes in functional diversity in an alpine system

(2020) Xiangtai Wang et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

A Regional Assessment of Changes in Plant–Plant Interactions Along Topography Gradients in Tunisian Sebkhas

(2020) Ghassen Chaieb et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Testing the role of functional trait expression in plant–plant facilitation

(2020) Stephni van der Merwe et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A hierarchical Bayesian model to incorporate uncertainty into methods for diversity partitioning

(2018) Zachary H. Marion et al.   ECOLOGY

Microenvironment and functional-trait context dependence predict alpine plant community dynamics

(2018) Benjamin Blonder et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of indirect facilitation on functional diversity, dominance and niche differentiation in tropical alpine communities

(2018) Alain Danet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Functionally distinct assembly of vascular plants colonizing alpine cushions suggests their vulnerability to climate change

(2018) Jiri Dolezal et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Facilitation as a driver of plant assemblages in Caatinga

(2017) Juan Fernando Carrión et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Testing the environmental filtering concept in global drylands

(2017) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Beyond pairwise mechanisms of species coexistence in complex communities

(2017) Jonathan M. Levine et al.   NATURE

The effect of consumer pressure and abiotic stress on positive plant interactions are mediated by extreme climatic events

(2017) Alessandro Filazzola et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Extreme drought stress shifts net facilitation to neutral interactions between shrubs and sub-canopy plants in an arid desert

(2017) Gefei Zhang et al.   OIKOS

The shift from plant-plant facilitation to competition under severe water deficit is spatially explicit

(2017) Michael J. O'Brien et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Functional trait diversity maximizes ecosystem multifunctionality

(2017) Nicolas Gross et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Intraspecific genetic variation and species coexistence in plant communities

(2016) Bodil K. Ehlers et al.   Biology Letters

Climate change effects on southern California deserts

(2016) D. Bachelet et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Changes in assembly rules along a stress gradient from open dry grasslands to wetlands

(2016) Barbara Lhotsky et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Disentangling canopy and soil effects of a savanna tree species on its understorey

(2016) Fathia Abdallah et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Individual species affect plant traits structure in their surroundings: evidence of functional mechanisms of assembly

(2016) Julia Chacón-Labella et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effect of desert shrubs on fine-scale spatial patterns of understory vegetation in a dry-land

(2016) Gefei Zhang et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Variations in leaf functional traits among plant species grouped by growth and leaf types in Zhenjiang, China

(2016) Congyan Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Limitations to the use of facilitation as a restoration tool in arid grazed savanna: a case study

(2015) Zouhaier Noumi et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Shrub facilitation is an important driver of alpine plant community diversity and functional composition

(2015) Mark Ballantyne et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A guide to Bayesian model selection for ecologists

(2015) M. B. Hooten et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

The effects of foundation species on community assembly: a global study on alpine cushion plant communities

(2015) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   ECOLOGY

A global meta-analysis of the relative extent of intraspecific trait variation in plant communities

(2015) Andrew Siefert et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Does the stress-gradient hypothesis hold water? Disentangling spatial and temporal variation in plant effects on soil moisture in dryland systems

(2015) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Facilitation and the niche: implications for coexistence, range shifts and ecosystem functioning

(2015) Fabio Bulleri et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The relative contribution of short-term versus long-term effects in shrub-understory species interactions under arid conditions

(2015) Zouhaier Noumi et al.   OECOLOGIA

Facilitation promotes changes in leaf economics traits of a perennial forb

(2015) Ana I. García-Cervigón et al.   OECOLOGIA

Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Using trait and phylogenetic diversity to evaluate the generality of the stress-dominance hypothesis in eastern North American tree communities

(2014) Jessica R. Coyle et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Between- and within-species trait variability and the assembly of sapling communities in forest patches

(2014) Marcos B. Carlucci et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

No evidence of facilitation collapse in the Tibetan plateau

(2014) Francisco I. Pugnaire et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Improving intercropping: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology

(2014) Rob W. Brooker et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Importance, but not intensity of plant interactions relates to species diversity under the interplay of stress and disturbance

(2014) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   OIKOS

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

(2013) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The role of biotic interactions for the early establishment of oak seedlings in coastal dune forest communities

(2013) Hassan Muhamed et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Two alternatives to the stress-gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

(2013) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence

(2012) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

(2012) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Within- and among-species variation in specific leaf area drive community assembly in a tropical cloud forest

(2011) Wenxing Long et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited

(2010) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY