Tamm review: Tree interactions between myth and reality

A Pommerening, AJS Meador - Forest ecology and management, 2018 - Elsevier
For a long time, interaction between plants in both general plant and forest science has
been somewhat limited to competition, although an intuitive, non-scientific understanding of …

[BOOK][B] Individual-based methods in forest ecology and management

A Pommerening, P Grabarnik - 2019 - Springer
Individual-based forest ecology and management, where the focus is on individual plants in
the context of their populations, draws on a large body of different quantitative methods that …

Genetic mechanisms of aging in plants: What can we learn from them?

VN Popov, MY Syromyatnikov, C Franceschi… - Ageing Research …, 2022 - Elsevier
Plants hold all records in longevity. Their aging is a complex process. In the presented
review, we analyzed published data on various aspects of plant aging with focus on any …

Phylogenetic clustering and overdispersion for alpine plants along elevational gradient in the Hengduan Mountains Region, southwest China

XH LI, XX ZHU, Y Niu, H Sun - Journal of Systematics and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
To better understand the elevational pattern of phylogenetic structure shown by alpine taxa
and the underlying causes, we analyzed the phylogenetic structure of each elevational belt …

Species richness, functional traits and climate interactively affect tree survival in a large forest biodiversity experiment

X Liu, Y Huang, L Chen, S Li, FJ Bongers… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tree survival affects forest biodiversity, structure and functioning. However, little is known
about feedback effects of biodiversity on survival and its dependence on functional traits and …

Identifying “useful” fitness models: Balancing the benefits of added complexity with realistic data requirements in models of individual plant fitness

TE Martyn, DB Stouffer, O Godoy… - The American …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
Direct species interactions are commonly included in individual fitness models used for
coexistence and local diversity modeling. Though widely considered important for such …

Plant size and competitive dynamics along nutrient gradients

DE Goldberg, JP Martina, KJ Elgersma… - The American …, 2017 - journals.uchicago.edu
Resource competition theory in plants has focused largely on resource acquisition traits that
are independent of size, such as traits of individual leaves or roots or proportional allocation …

Plant competitive interactions and invasiveness: searching for the effects of phylogenetic relatedness and origin on competition intensity

P Dostál - The American Naturalist, 2011 - journals.uchicago.edu
The invasion success of introduced plants is frequently explained as a result of competitive
interactions with native flora. Although previous theory and experiments have shown that …

Success of spatial statistics in determining underlying process in simulated plant communities

C Brown, JB Illian, DFRP Burslem - Journal of Ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Spatial statistics are widely used in studies of ecological processes in plant communities,
especially to provide evidence of neutral or non‐neutral mechanisms that might support …

Can initial intraspecific spatial aggregation increase multi‐year coexistence by creating temporal priority?

LM Porensky, KJ Vaughn, TP Young - Ecological Applications, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Both intraspecific spatial aggregation and temporal priority effects have the potential to
increase long‐term species coexistence. Theory and models suggest that intraspecific …