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 …

Given the rate of projected environmental change for the 21st century, urgent adaptation and
mitigation measures are required to slow down the on-going erosion of biodiversity. Even …

Species distribution modelling is central to both fundamental and applied research in
biogeography. Despite widespread use of models, there are still important conceptual …

Aim There is a debate as to whether biotic interactions exert a dominant role in governing
species distributions at macroecological scales. The prevailing idea is that climate is the key …

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 …

Models describing the biotic drivers that create and maintain biological diversity within
trophic levels have focused primarily on negative interactions (ie competition), leaving …

A central tenet of ecology and biogeography is that the broad outlines of species ranges are
determined by climate, whereas the effects of biotic interactions are manifested at local …

Natural systems are being subjected to unprecedented rates of change and unique
pressures from a combination of anthropogenic environmental change drivers. Plant–plant …

While the relationship between facilitation and competition has been explored extensively in
recent years, there is also a natural link between facilitation and mutualism, as both are …

Ongoing and predicted global change makes understanding and predicting species' range
shifts an urgent scientific priority. Here, we provide a synthetic perspective on the so far …