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 …

An exponential rise in the atmospheric vapour pressure deficit (VPD) is among the most
consequential impacts of climate change in terrestrial ecosystems. Rising VPD has negative …

Facilitation (positive interactions among organisms) in communities has been the subject of
increasing interest for community ecologists since the mid-nineties (Fig. 1), although this is a …

Assisted tree migration has been proposed as a conceptual solution to mitigate lags in biotic
responses to anthropogenic climate change. The rationale behind this concept is that tree …

The plastic responses of plants to abiotic and biotic environmental factors have generally
been addressed separately; thus we have a poor understanding of how these factors …

Introduction Shrub promotes the survival, growth and reproduction of understory species by
buffering the environmental extremes and improving limited resources (ie, facilitation effect) …

Forest cover creates a specific microclimate by buffering most environmental variables. If the
influence of the overstory on microclimatic variables has been well studied, the role of the …

Plant–plant interactions may critically modify the impact of climate change on plant
communities. However, the magnitude and even direction of potential future interactions …

The stress‐gradient hypothesis predicts a higher frequency of facilitative interactions as
resource limitation increases. Under severe resource limitation, it has been suggested that …

Increasing temperatures and drought in desert ecosystems are predicted to cause
decreased vegetation density combined with barren ground expansion. It remains unclear …