Facilitation as a ubiquitous driver of biodiversity

EJB McIntire, A Fajardo - New phytologist, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Models describing the biotic drivers that create and maintain biological diversity within
trophic levels have focused primarily on negative interactions (ie competition), leaving …

Moving forward on facilitation research: response to changing environments and effects on the diversity, functioning and evolution of plant communities

S Soliveres, C Smit, FT Maestre - Biological Reviews, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Once seen as anomalous, facilitative interactions among plants and their importance for
community structure and functioning are now widely recognized. The growing body of …

Facilitative plant interactions and climate simultaneously drive alpine plant diversity

LA Cavieres, RW Brooker, BJ Butterfield… - Ecology …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interactions among species determine local‐scale diversity, but local interactions are
thought to have minor effects at larger scales. However, quantitative comparisons of the …

Plant functional traits are dynamic predictors of ecosystem functioning in variable environments

JD Huxley, CT White, HC Humphries… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
A central goal at the interface of ecology and conservation is understanding how the
relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem function (B–EF) will shift with changing …

Revisiting phylogenetic signal; strong or negligible impacts of polytomies and branch length information?

R Molina-Venegas, MÁ Rodríguez - BMC evolutionary biology, 2017‏ - Springer
Background Inaccurate estimates of phylogenetic signal may mislead interpretations of
many ecological and evolutionary processes, and hence understanding where potential …

Two alternatives to the stress‐gradient hypothesis at the edge of life: the collapse of facilitation and the switch from facilitation to competition

R Michalet, Y Le Bagousse‐**uet… - Journal of …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
New evidence demonstrates that facilitation plays a crucial role even at the edge of life in
Maritime Antarctica. These findings are interpreted as support for the stress‐gradient …

Facilitation and biodiversity–ecosystem function relationships in crop production systems and their role in sustainable farming

RW Brooker, TS George, Z Homulle… - Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
We review the need for increasing agricultural sustainability, how this can in part be
delivered by positive biodiversity–ecosystem function (BEF) effects, the role within these of …

Facilitation and sustainable agriculture: a mechanistic approach to reconciling crop production and conservation

RW Brooker, AJ Karley, AC Newton… - Functional …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Food security is currently considered a major global problem. However, increasing intensity
of food production in agricultural systems has driven reductions in farmland biodiversity. A …

Incorporating intraspecific variation into species distribution models improves distribution predictions, but cannot predict species traits for a wide‐spread plant species

NI Chardon, S Pironon, ML Peterson, DF Doak - Ecography, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The most common approach to predicting how species ranges and ecological functions will
shift with climate change is to construct correlative species distribution models (SDMs) …

Facilitation in communities

R Michalet, FI Pugnaire - Functional Ecology, 2016‏ - JSTOR
Facilitation (positive interactions among organisms) in communities has been the subject of
increasing interest for community ecologists since the mid-nineties (Fig. 1), although this is a …