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 …

Phenotypic traits and their associated trade-offs have been shown to have globally consistent
effects on individual plant physiological functions 1 , 2 , 3 , but how these effects scale up …

The relative importance of competition vs. environmental filtering in the assembly of communities
is commonly inferred from their functional and phylogenetic structure, on the grounds …

Climate change is expected to increase the magnitude and the frequency of extreme climatic
events such as droughts. Better understanding how plant communities will respond to …

Background Despite empirical support for an increase in ecosystem productivity with species
diversity in synthetic systems, there is ample evidence that this relationship is dependent …

Global warming is predicted to dramatically alter communities' composition through differential
colonization abilities, such as between sessile plants and their mobile herbivores. Novel …

Hutchinson defined species' realized niche as the set of environmental conditions in which
populations can persist in the presence of competitors. In terms of demography, the realized …

Due to species‐specificity of the outcomes of biotic interactions, it is difficult to generalize from
observed biotic interactions at the individual plant level to the effect of those interactions at …

Plant interactions play a central role in regulating plant communities and this role can be
altered by abiotic stress. With increasing stress, ecological theory predicts that the role of …

A central concept in forest ecology is that differences in the growth rates and shade tolerances
of tree species determine patterns of secondary succession. The most shade‐tolerant tree …