Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future

RW Brooker, FT Maestre, RM Callaway, CL Lortie… - Journal of ecology, 2008 - JSTOR
1. Once neglected, the role of facilitative interactions in plant communities has received
considerable attention in the last two decades, and is now widely recognized. It is timely to …

Community Response to Extreme Drought (CRED): a framework for drought‐induced shifts in plant–plant interactions

LW Ploughe, EM Jacobs, GS Frank… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 52 I. Introduction 52 II. The Community Response to Extreme Drought
(CRED) framework 55 III. Post‐drought rewetting rates: system and community recovery 61 …

[КНИГА][B] Positive interactions and interdependence in plant communities

RM Callaway - 2007 - Springer
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 …

Shifts from complementarity to selection effects maintain high productivity in maize/legume intercrop** systems

WP Zhang, SN Gao, ZX Li, HS Xu… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Complementarity (CE) and selection effects (SE) have been either invoked to explain the
positive diversity–productivity relationship in natural and semi‐natural ecosystems. Few …

Positive plant interactions in the Iberian Southeast: mechanisms, environmental gradients, and ecosystem function

FI Pugnaire, C Armas, FT Maestre - Journal of arid environments, 2011 - Elsevier
Semi-arid ecosystems are privileged sites to address the effects of plant interactions on
community structure and dynamics because environmental conditions are demanding and …

Plant survival in relation to seed size along environmental gradients: A long‐term study from semi‐arid and Mediterranean annual plant communities

J Metz, P Liancourt, J Kigel, D Harel… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A positive relationship between seed size and subsequent offspring survival is a key
assumption in ecological theory concerning life‐history strategies. Yet, this relationship is …

What does the stress‐gradient hypothesis predict? Resolving the discrepancies

D Malkinson, K Tielbörger - Oikos, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years the importance of facilitative interactions in ecological communities is
increasingly recognized. This phenomenon has been observed repeatedly, particularly in …

Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in abiotic factors modulate multiple ontogenetic shifts between competition and facilitation

S Soliveres, L DeSoto, FT Maestre, JM Olano - Perspectives in Plant …, 2010 - Elsevier
Plant–plant interactions are largely influenced by both environmental stress and ontogeny.
Despite the effects of each of these factors on the overall outcome of these interactions has …

Temporal dynamics of nutrient uptake by neighbouring plant species: evidence from intercrop**

WP Zhang, GC Liu, JH Sun, D Fornara… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The productivity of species‐diverse plant assemblages strongly depends on the temporal
dynamics of nutrient uptake by competing neighbouring plants. Our understanding …

Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species‐rich assemblage

C Martorell, RP Freckleton - Journal of Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is an ongoing debate about whether communities are closely integrated and bound
together via interactions such as competition or facilitation, or are disintegrated and …