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 …

Multiple hypotheses have emerged to explain the apparent paradox of high diversity of the
deep‐sea benthos when the environmental conditions are often predicted to inhibit rather …

Abiotic stress limits crop productivity [1], and plays a major role in determining the distri‐-
bution of plant species across different types of environments. Abiotic stress and its effects …

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 …

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 …

The stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts that the community-wide prevalence of
positive interactions, relative to negative interactions, is greater under more severe …

The identification of functional traits critical to plant responses to the environment promotes
our understanding of assembly of communities which relies on environmental filtering …

Abstract Background and Aims The stress gradient hypothesis (SGH), the view that
competition prevails in undisturbed and productive environments, and shifts to facilitation in …

Genetic variation and environmental heterogeneity fundamentally shape the interactions
between plants of the same species. According to the resource partitioning hypothesis …

Aim It is widely recognized that the prediction of invasion success at large biogeographical
scales requires jointly accounting for alien species traits and local community filters, such as …