Models describing the biotic drivers that create and maintain biological diversity within
trophic levels have focused primarily on negative interactions (ie competition), leaving …

The study of plant behaviour will be aided by conceptual approaches and terminology for
cooperation, altruism and hel**. The plant literature has a rich discussion of hel** …

Altitudinal gradients provide a useful space‐for‐time substitution to examine the capacity for
plant competition and facilitation to mediate responses to climate change. Decomposing net …

Climate, competition and site conditions are the main drivers controlling annual secondary
growth in tree species. These factors do no act independently on tree growth, but by means …

Competition theory predicts that local communities should consist of species that are more
dissimilar than expected by chance. We find a strikingly different pattern in a multicontinent …

Climate change and anthropogenic pressures inflict a wide range of profound damages on
coral reef ecosystems, resha** coral reef communities due to their physiological and …

Facilitation (positive interaction) has received increasing attention in plant ecology over the
last decade. Just as for competition, distinguishing different modes of facilitation (mutualistic …

Spatial patterns of plant species are determined by an array of ecologica factors including
biotic and abiotic environmental constraints and intrinsic species traits. Thus, an observed …

A higher frequency of increasingly severe droughts highlights the need for short-term
measures to adapt existing forests to climate change. The maintenance of reduced stand …

Plant–plant interactions change depending on environmental conditions, shifting from
competition to facilitation when the stress is high. In addition to these changes, the relevance …