Plants interact simultaneously with each other and with soil biota, yet the relative importance
of competition vs. plant–soil feedback (PSF) on plant performance is poorly understood …

Invasions by alien plants provide a unique opportunity to examine competitive interactions
among plants. While resource competition has long been regarded as a major mechanism …

Host-associated bacterial communities can function as an important line of defence against
pathogens in animals and plants. Empirical evidence and theoretical predictions suggest …

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 …

A coordinated continental‐scale field experiment across 31 sites was used to compare the
biomass yield of monocultures and four species mixtures associated with intensively …

This completely revised, fourth edition of Introduction to Plant Population Biology continues
the approach taken by its highly successful predecessors. Ecological and genetic principles …

During the past 100 years, studies spanning thousands of taxa across almost all biomes
have demonstrated that competition has powerful negative effects on the performance of …

Regular grids or lattices are frequently used to study ecosystems, for observations,
experiments and simulations. The regular rectangular or square grid is used more often than …

Ecological research and the way that ecologists use statistics continues to change rapidly.
This second edition of the best-selling Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments leads …

1 Mathematical indices, formed by combining several primary measures, can help
researchers summarize, interpret and display results from plant competition experiments …