Competition and facilitation structure plant communities under nurse tree canopies in extremely stressful environments

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

Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress

(2013) Qiang He et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High reproductive efficiency as an adaptive strategy in competitive environments

(2013) Stephen P. Bonser   FUNCTIONAL 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

Direct and indirect interactions co-determine species composition in nurse plant systems

(2013) Christian Schöb et al.   OIKOS

The interplay of stress and mowing disturbance for the intensity and importance of plant interactions in dry calcareous grasslands

(2012) Jean-Paul Maalouf et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The influence of trees on nutrients, water, light availability and understorey vegetation in an arid environment

(2012) F. Abdallah et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

The restoration of vegetation cover in the semi-arid Iberian southeast

(2011) J. Cortina et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Competition and body size in plants: the between-species trade-off for maximum potential versus minimum reproductive threshold size

(2011) A. J. Tracey et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Assessing occurrence, specificity, and mechanisms of plant facilitation in terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Climatic drivers of plant–plant interactions and diversity in alpine communities

(2011) Zaal Kikvidze et al.   Alpine Botany

Interactions of Acacia raddiana with herbaceous vegetation change with intensity of abiotic stress

(2010) Fathia Abdallah et al.   FLORA

Facilitation ofQuercus ilexin Mediterranean shrubland is explained by both direct and indirect interactions mediated by herbs

(2010) Bárbara Cuesta et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities

(2010) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2009) Fabien Anthelme et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED 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

Does disturbance drive the collapse of biotic interactions at the severe end of a diversity–biomass gradient?

(2009) Estelle Forey et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Desert shrubs have negative or neutral effects on annuals at two levels of water availability in arid lands of South Australia

(2008) James T. Weedon et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Shoot, but not root, competition reduces community diversity in experimental mesocosms

(2008) Eric G. Lamb et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY