Nurse species and indirect facilitation through grazing drive plant community functional traits in tropical alpine peatlands

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

(2017) Fabien Anthelme et al.   OIKOS

The Mechanisms and Consequences of Interspecific Competition Among Plants

(2016) Erik T. Aschehoug et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Does grazing induce intraspecific trait variation in plants from a sub-humid mountain ecosystem?

(2016) Juan I. Whitworth-Hulse et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

When can positive interactions cause alternative stable states in ecosystems?

(2016) Sonia Kéfi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Community-level plant palatability increases with elevation as insect herbivore abundance declines

(2016) Patrice Descombes et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do community-weighted mean functional traits reflect optimal strategies?

(2016) Robert Muscarella et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity Increases Indirect Interactions, Attenuates the Intensity of Competition, and Promotes Coexistence

(2015) Erik T. Aschehoug et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Growth and Organic Carbon Production in Peatlands Dominated by Distichia muscoides, Bolivia, South America

(2015) David J. Cooper et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

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

(2015) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   ECOLOGY

Beneficiary feedback effects on alpine cushion benefactors become more negative with increasing cover of graminoids and in dry conditions

(2015) Richard Michalet 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 interplay of nurse and target plant traits influences magnitude and direction of facilitative interactions under different combinations of stress and disturbance intensities in Andean dry grassland

(2015) Andrea Catorci et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Facilitation consequences for reproduction of the benefactor cushion plantLaretia acaulisalong an elevational gradient: costs or benefits?

(2015) Mary Carolina García et al.   OIKOS

The interplay of nurse and target plant traits influences magnitude and direction of facilitative interactions under different combinations of stress and disturbance intensities in Andean dry grassland

(2015) Andrea Catorci et al.   Journal of Plant 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

The context dependence of beneficiary feedback effects on benefactors in plant facilitation

(2014) Christian Schöb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF 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

Partitioning net interactions among plants along altitudinal gradients to study community responses to climate change

(2013) Richard Michalet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Variability in functional traits mediates plant interactions along stress gradients

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Vegetation and ecology of the high Andean peatlands of Bolivia Vegetación y ecología de los bofedales altoandinos de Bolivia

(2013) Barbara Ruthsatz   PHYTOCOENOLOGIA

More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

(2012) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Interspecific facilitation and critical transitions in arid ecosystems

(2012) Mart Verwijmeren et al.   OIKOS

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

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Release from competition and protection determine the outcome of plant interactions along a grazing gradient

(2011) Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al.   OIKOS

Alpine Peatlands of the Andes, Cajamarca, Peru

(2010) David J. Cooper et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Quantifying relationships between traits and explicitly measured gradients of stress and disturbance in early successional plant communities

(2010) Grégory Sonnier et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Leaf Traits as Functional Descriptors of the Intensity of Continuous Grazing in Native Grasslands in the South of Brazil

(2010) Pablo Cruz et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Grass-to-tree facilitation in an arid grazed environment (Aïr Mountains, Sahara)

(2009) Fabien Anthelme et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis

(2009) Christian Smit et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

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

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

Competition, traits and resource depletion in plant communities

(2009) Cyrille Violle et al.   OECOLOGIA

Positive interactions among competitors can produce species-rich communities

(2008) Kevin Gross   ECOLOGY LETTERS