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 …

Understanding the role of competition in structuring communities requires that we quantify
competitive ability in a way that permits us to predict the outcome of competition over the …

The stress‐gradient hypothesis (SGH) predicts an increasing importance of facilitative
mechanisms relative to competition along gradients of increasing environmental stress …

Plants are essential components of bioretention systems, with bioretention design-guides
around the world providing extensive advice on the role of selection of plants to maximize …

In recent years the importance of facilitative interactions in ecological communities is
increasingly recognized. This phenomenon has been observed repeatedly, particularly in …

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 …

The storage effect has become a core concept in community ecology, explaining how
environmental fluctuations can promote coexistence and maintain biodiversity. However …

There is an ongoing debate about whether communities are closely integrated and bound
together via interactions such as competition or facilitation, or are disintegrated and …

Climate change will exacerbate the degree of abiotic stress experienced by semi-arid
ecosystems. While abiotic stress profoundly affects biotic interactions, their potential role as …

Ecologists have long recognized the roles of competition and disturbance in shaping
ecological communities, and the combinatorial effects of these two factors have been the …