Facilitation by leguminous shrubs increases along a precipitation gradient

Facilitation in communities: underlying mechanisms, community and ecosystem implications

(2016) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

(2016) Nicola Stevens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The sign and magnitude of tree-grass interaction along a global environmental gradient

(2016) Noemí Mazía et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Impacts of leguminous shrub encroachment on neighboring grasses include transfer of fixed nitrogen

(2016) Hai-Yang Zhang et al.   OECOLOGIA

Effects of shrub encroachment on soil organic carbon in global grasslands

(2016) He Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Influence of soil microbiota in nurse plant systems

(2015) Susana Rodríguez-Echeverría 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

Disentangling direct and indirect effects of a legume shrub on its understorey community

(2015) Richard Michalet et al.   OIKOS

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

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

Shrub encroachment with increasing anthropogenic disturbance in the semiarid Inner Mongolian grasslands of China

(2013) Hai-Ying Peng et al.   CATENA

Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2013) Justin Dohn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitative or competitive effects of woody plants on understorey vegetation depend on N-fixation, canopy shape and rainfall

(2013) Wilma J. Blaser et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

Disentangling the effects of water and nutrients for studying the outcome of plant interactions in sand dune ecosystems

(2012) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Untangling the positive and negative effects of shrubs on herbaceous vegetation in drylands

(2012) Moran Segoli et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A field test of the stress-gradient hypothesis along an aridity gradient

(2011) Cristina Armas et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Nitrogen transfer from forage legumes to nine neighbouring plants in a multi-species grassland

(2011) Karin Pirhofer-Walzl et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Impact of an exotic N2-fixing Acacia on composition and N status of a native Mediterranean community

(2010) Christine Hellmann et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitation drives 65 years of vegetation change in the Sonoran Desert

(2010) Bradley J. Butterfield et al.   ECOLOGY

Climate and ecosystem15N natural abundance along a transect of Inner Mongolian grasslands: Contrasting regional patterns and global patterns

(2009) Weixin Cheng et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

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

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

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

(2008) ALAN K. KNAPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY