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

Competition, facilitation and environmental severity shape the relationship between local and regional species richness in plant communities

(2014) Richard Michalet et al.   ECOGRAPHY

1914–2014: A revised worldwide catalogue of cushion plants 100 years after Hauri and Schröter

(2014) Serge Aubert et al.   Alpine Botany

A global meta-analytic contrast of cushion-plant effects on plants and on arthropods

(2014) Amanda R. Liczner et al.   PeerJ

Under niche construction: an operational bridge between ecology, evolution, and ecosystem science

(2013) Blake Matthews et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

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

Alpine cushion plants inhibit the loss of phylogenetic diversity in severe environments

(2013) B. J. Butterfield et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

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

Unifying sources and sinks in ecology and Earth sciences

(2012) Michel Loreau et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Foundation species influence trait-based community assembly

(2012) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity

(2012) Andrés Baselga et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Cushion plants are foundation species with positive effects extending to higher trophic levels

(2012) Anya M. Reid et al.   Ecosphere

Ecological assembly rules in plant communities-approaches, patterns and prospects

(2011) Lars Götzenberger et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

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

Co-occurrence-based measure of species' habitat specialization: robust, unbiased estimation in saturated communities

(2011) Zoltán Botta-Dukát   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

The best for the guest: high Andean nurse cushions of Azorella madreporica enhance arbuscular mycorrhizal status in associated plant species

(2011) M. Angélica Casanova-Katny et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Disentangling the Drivers of   Diversity Along Latitudinal and Elevational Gradients

(2011) N. J. B. Kraft et al.   SCIENCE

Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in α-diversity

(2011) Jonathan M. Chase et al.   Ecosphere

Don’t Diss Integration: A Comment on Ricklefs’s Disintegrating Communities

(2009) Rob W. Brooker et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Beyond description: the active and effective way to infer processes from spatial patterns

(2009) Eliot J. B. McIntire et al.   ECOLOGY