Fine nurse variations explain discrepancies in the stress-interaction relationship in alpine regions

Evidence of Facilitation Cascade Processes as Drivers of Successional Patterns of Ecosystem Engineers at the Upper Altitudinal Limit of the Dry Puna

(2016) Luca Malatesta et al.   PLoS One

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

(2015) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   ECOLOGY

Cushion plant morphology controls biogenic capability and facilitation effects ofSilene acaulisalong an elevation gradient

(2015) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2015) Fabio Bulleri et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Size class structure, growth rates, and orientation of the central Andean cushionAzorella compacta

(2015) Catherine Kleier et al.   PeerJ

Shrub Effects on Herbaceous Vegetation Vary with Growth Stages and Herb Relative Location

(2015) Yuhui He et al.   POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

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

No evidence of facilitation collapse in the Tibetan plateau

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

Plant–plant interactions, environmental gradients and plant diversity: A global synthesis of community-level studies

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

Plant clonal morphologies and spatial patterns as self-organized responses to resource-limited environments

(2014) P. Couteron et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Linking patterns and processes through ecosystem engineering: effects of shrubs on microhabitat and water status of associated plants in the high tropical Andes

(2014) Lirey A. Ramírez et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Serge Aubert et al.   Alpine Botany

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

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Modulating effects of ontogeny on the outcome of plant-plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Cristina Armas et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ontogenetic shifts in plant interactions vary with environmental severity and affect population structure

(2013) Peter C. le Roux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

A global analysis of bidirectional interactions in alpine plant communities shows facilitators experiencing strong reciprocal fitness costs

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

Shrub facilitation increases plant diversity along an arid scrubland-temperate rain forest boundary in South America

(2012) Maarten J. van Zonneveld et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Experimental support of the stress-gradient hypothesis in herbivore-herbivore interactions

(2012) Olivier Dangles et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Plant–plant interactions in tropical alpine environments

(2012) Fabien Anthelme et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

The return of the variance: intraspecific variability in community ecology

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

Cryptic spatial aggregation of the cushion plant Azorella selago (Apiaceae) revealed by a multilocus molecular approach suggests frequent intraspecific facilitation under sub-Antarctic conditions

(2011) M. E. Cerfonteyn et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional morphology and microclimate of Festuca orthophylla, the dominant tall tussock grass in the Andean Altiplano

(2011) José Alberto Fernandez Monteiro et al.   FLORA

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

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

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

(2011) Andrea Catorci et al.   Alpine Botany

Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited

(2010) Milena Holmgren et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Intraspecific functional variability: extent, structure and sources of variation

(2010) Cécile Hélène Albert et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Positive associations between the cushion plant Arenaria polytrichoides (Caryophyllaceae) and other alpine plant species increase with altitude in the Sino-Himalayas

(2010) Yang Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Do facilitative interactions increase species richness at the entire community level?

(2009) Lohengrin A. Cavieres et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta-analysis across life-forms and ecosystems

(2009) Lorena Gómez-Aparicio   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Interaction intensity and importance along two stress gradients: adding shape to the stress-gradient hypothesis

(2009) Peter Christiaan le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

Strain and vegetation effects on local limiting resources explain the outcomes of biotic interactions

(2009) N. Gross et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Presence of cushion plants increases community diversity in the high equatorial Andes

(2008) Petr Sklenář   FLORA

Spatial variation in plant interactions across a severity gradient in the sub-Antarctic

(2008) Peter C. le Roux et al.   OECOLOGIA

Energy balance and temperature relations ofAzorella compacta, a high-elevation cushion plant of the central Andes

(2008) C. Kleier et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY