Predicting the impacts of climate change on species is one of the biggest challenges that ecologists face. Predictions routinely focus on the direct effects of climate change on …
Abstract Smooth cordgrass Spartina alterniflora Loisel., a perennial rhizomatous grass native to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of North America, spreads rapidly in estuaries and …
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 …
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 …
The composition of communities is strongly altered by anthropogenic manipulations of biogeochemical cycles, abiotic conditions, and trophic structure in all major ecosystems …
1 We investigated the factors producing zonation patterns of the dominant plants in south- eastern USA salt marshes where Juncus roemerianus dominates the high marsh, and …
Summary 1 Theoretical models have predicted that the relative importance of facilitation and competition will vary inversely across gradients of abiotic stress, with facilitation being the …
Theoretical models predict that the net outcome of biotic interactions among plants is the sum of co‐occurring negative and positive interactions, with facilitation generally increasing …
Mangrove forests are hot spots in the global carbon cycle, yet the fate for a majority of mangrove net primary production remains unaccounted for. The relative proportions of …