Phenotypic plasticity is considered the major means by which plants cope with
environmental heterogeneity. Although ubiquitous in nature, actual phenotypic plasticity is …

The consequences of global change for the maintenance of species diversity will depend on
the sum of each species responses to the environment and on the interactions among them …

Most ecologists are not card-carrying members of either individualistic or interdependent
guilds, but our perception of plant community organization, and the way we conduct …

The idea that the role of facilitative interactions increases as environmental conditions
become more stressful has become a ruling paradigm in ecology. Here, we review three …

Here, we investigated the physiological and structural leaf responses of seedlings of two
evergreen and two deciduous Quercus species, grown in a glasshouse and subjected to …

In this study we assessed the effectiveness of rodents as dispersers of Quercus ilex in a
patchy landscape in southeastern Spain. We experimentally followed the fates of 3,200 …

Question: Positive interactions are predicted to be common in communities develo**
under high physical stress or high herbivory pressure due to neighbour amelioration of …

Question: Insufficient tree regeneration threatens the long‐term persistence of biodiverse
Mediterranean open oak woodlands. Could shrubs, scarce due to decades of management …

Background and Aims Germination and seedling establishment, which are critical stages in
the regeneration process of plant populations, may be subjected to natural selection and …

Abstract In Central-Western Spain, forests and woodlands composed of Quercus sp. support
outstanding levels of biodiversity, but there is increasing concern about their long-term …