World population is projected to reach over nine billion by the year 2050, and ensuring food
security while mitigating environmental impacts represents a major agricultural challenge …

Plants are exposed to heterogeneity in the environment where new stress factors (ie, climate
change, land use change, and invasiveness) are introduced, and where inter‐and …

Sustainable intensification calls for agroecological and adaptive management of the
agrifood system. Here, we focus on intercrop** and how this agroecological practice can …

Drought will increasingly threaten forest ecosystems worldwide. Understanding how
competition influences tree growth response to drought is essential for forest management …

Invasions by alien plants provide a unique opportunity to examine competitive interactions
among plants. While resource competition has long been regarded as a major mechanism …

Extensive research has shown that greater plant community diversity leads to higher levels
of productivity and other ecosystem services, and such increased diversity has been …

1. Once neglected, the role of facilitative interactions in plant communities has received
considerable attention in the last two decades, and is now widely recognized. It is timely to …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is a principal source of food for more than half of the world population,
especially in South and Southeast Asia and Latin America. Elsewhere, it represents a high …

We propose an index to measure the relative interaction intensity in plants (RII) with strong
mathematical and statistical properties which overcome problems shown by other frequently …

Summary 1 Global change and emerging concepts in ecology and evolution are leading to a
growing interest in phenotypic plasticity (PP), the environmentally contingent trait expression …