Phragmites australis is a cosmopolitan grass and often the dominant species in the
ecosystems it inhabits. Due to high intraspecific diversity and phenotypic plasticity, P …

Phragmites australis (common reed) is one of the most extensively distributed species of
emergent plant worldwide. The adaptive features of this plant show its competitive character …

Community ecology aims to understand what factors determine the assembly and dynamics
of species assemblages at different spatiotemporal scales. To facilitate the integration …

Interactions among species determine local‐scale diversity, but local interactions are
thought to have minor effects at larger scales. However, quantitative comparisons of the …

New evidence demonstrates that facilitation plays a crucial role even at the edge of life in
Maritime Antarctica. These findings are interpreted as support for the stress‐gradient …

Coexistence between plant species is well known to depend on the outcomes of species
interactions within an environmental context. The incorporation of environmental variation …

Previous syntheses on the effects of environmental conditions on the outcome of plant–plant
interactions summarize results from pairwise studies. However, the upscaling to the …

Altitudinal gradients provide a useful space‐for‐time substitution to examine the capacity for
plant competition and facilitation to mediate responses to climate change. Decomposing net …

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 …

Trait-based approaches have been widely used to explore the relationships between
submerged macrophytes and their surrounding environments. However, the effects of …