Once seen as anomalous, facilitative interactions among plants and their importance for
community structure and functioning are now widely recognized. The growing body of …

In alpine regions worldwide, climate change is dramatically altering ecosystems and
affecting biodiversity in many ways. For streams, receding alpine glaciers and snowfields …

Since proposed two decades ago, the stress‐gradient hypothesis (SGH), suggesting that
species interactions shift from competition to facilitation with stress, has been widely …

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 …

Plant litter breakdown is a key ecological process in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems.
Streams and rivers, in particular, contribute substantially to global carbon fluxes. However …

Water pollution is ubiquitous globally, yet how the effects of pollutants propagate through
natural ecosystems remains poorly understood. This is because the interactive effects of …

According to the stress gradient hypothesis (SGH), ecological interactions between
organisms shift positively as environmental stress increases. In the case of associational …

Understanding mechanisms that generate range limits is central to knowing why species are
found where they are and how they will respond to environmental change. There is growing …

Positive interspecific interactions such as mutualism, commensalism, and facilitation are
globally ubiquitous. Although research on positive interactions in terrestrial and marine …

The relationship between niche and distribution, and especially the role of biotic interactions
in sha** species' geographic distributions, has gained increasing interest in the last two …