How to differentiate facilitation and environmentally driven co-existence

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

(2015) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   ECOLOGY

Positive Species Interactions as Drivers of Vegetation Change on a Barrier Island

(2015) Jackie A. Monge et al.   JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

Fine-scale hydrological niche differentiation through the lens of multi-species co-occurrence models

(2015) Andrew D. Letten et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Cushion plants can have a positive effect on diversity at high elevations in the Himalayan Hengduan Mountains

(2015) Jianguo Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Co-existence in a species-rich grassland: competition, facilitation and niche structure over a soil depth gradient

(2015) Carlos Martorell et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

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

Thermal buffering effect of alpine boulder field microhabitats in Australia: Implications for habitat management and conservation

(2014) Haijing Shi et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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

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

Communities: are they groups of hidden interactions?

(2014) Richard Michalet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Being a facilitator can be costly: teasing apart reciprocal effects

(2014) Eliot J. B. McIntire   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phenotypic differentiation within a foundation grass species correlates with species richness in a subalpine community

(2014) Patrick Al Hayek et al.   OECOLOGIA

Functional traits determine plant co-occurrence more than environment or evolutionary relatedness in global drylands

(2014) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Nurses experience reciprocal fitness benefits from their distantly related facilitated plants

(2014) Lugui Sortibrán et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Climatic extremes lead to species-specific legume facilitation in an experimental temperate grassland

(2014) Mohammed Abu Sayed Arfin Khan et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Disentangling who is who during rhizosphere acidification in root interactions: combining fluorescence with optode techniques

(2014) Marc Faget et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Facilitation among plants in alpine environments in the face of climate change

(2014) Fabien Anthelme et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

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

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

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

Co-occurrence Patterns along a Regional Aridity Gradient of the Subtropical Andes Do Not Support Stress Gradient Hypotheses

(2013) Ramiro Pablo López et al.   PLoS One

Mapping Sub-Antarctic Cushion Plants Using Random Forests to Combine Very High Resolution Satellite Imagery and Terrain Modelling

(2013) Phillippa K. Bricher et al.   PLoS One

A functional comparative approach to facilitation and its context dependence

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

Nurse plant effects on plant species richness in drylands: The role of grazing, rainfall and species specificity

(2012) Santiago Soliveres et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Combining observational and experimental methods in plant–plant interaction research

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

The Alpine Cushion Plant Silene acaulis as Foundation Species: A Bug’s-Eye View to Facilitation and Microclimate

(2012) Olivia Molenda et al.   PLoS One

Facilitation of plant species richness and endangered species by a tussock grass in a moist tall grassland revealed using hierarchical Bayesian analysis

(2011) Zhe Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD): a new resource for vegetation science

(2011) Jürgen Dengler et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Plant–plant spatial interactions in the dry Puna (southern Peruvian Andes)

(2011) Andrea Catorci et al.   Alpine Botany

Modeling species co-occurrence by multivariate logistic regression generates new hypotheses on fungal interactions

(2010) Otso Ovaskainen et al.   ECOLOGY

Floristic changes in alpine plant communities induced by the cushion plant Azorella madreporica (Apiaceae) in the Andes of central Chile

(2009) CONSTANZA L QUIROZ et al.   REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL

Facilitation of tree saplings by nurse plants: Microhabitat amelioration or protection against herbivores?

(2008) Lorena Gómez-Aparicio et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Role of invasive Melilotus officinalis in two native plant communities

(2008) Laura C. Van Riper et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY