Experiences worldwide reveal that degraded lands restoration projects achieve little
success or fail. Hence, understanding the underlying causes and accordingly, devising …

Biological diversity depends on multiple, cooccurring ecological interactions. However, most
studies focus on one interaction type at a time, leaving community ecologists unsure of how …

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 …

Foundation species structure communities, promote biodiversity, and stabilize ecosystem
processes by creating locally stable environmental conditions. Despite their critical …

Facilitative interactions play crucial roles in community organization, and the stress gradient
hypothesis (SGH) provides a simple conceptual framework for the context-dependency of …

Foundational cushion plants can re-organize community structures and sustain a prominent
proportion of alpine biodiversity, but they are sensitive to climate change. The loss of …

Plants grow in communities where they interact with other plants and with other living
organisms such as pollinators. On the one hand, studies of plant–plant interactions rarely …

Los humedales altoandinos (bofedales) son uno de los más amenazados frente al
calentamiento global. Dada la estrecha relación entre bofedales y agua, el retroceso glacial …

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is an important cushion plant hotspot. However,
the distribution of cushion plants on the QTP is unknown, as are the factors that drive …

Climate change is expected to lead to a drier world, with more frequent and severe droughts,
constituting a growing threat to biodiversity, especially in drylands. Positive plant− plant …