Green roofs are promoted as a nature-based approach to mitigate various environmental
issues and provide a variety of ecosystem services. However, establishing and maintaining …

Importance of nurse plants structuring plant communities is well‐appreciated at local scales,
yet the effect of a single nurse on large scales has been neglected in analyses. So far …

Background Climatic warming is increasing regionally and globally, and results concerning
warming and its consequent drought impacts have been reported extensively. However, due …

Ongoing encroachment is driving recent alpine shrubline dynamics globally, but the role of
shrub-shrub interactions in shaping shrublines and their relationships with stem density …

Organisms from higher tropical levels (eg, herbivores) can mediate indirect competitive
interactions between two target plant species, but such apparent competition may also be …

Interactions between two plant species can be influenced by the presence of other plant
species and such an effect may change as the diversity of the other species increases. To …

Restoration of degraded environments is essential to mitigate adverse impacts of human
activities on ecosystems. Plant–plant interactions may provide effective means for restoring …

Question Rocky outcrops generally restrict recruitment and survival of plant species due to
their environmental conditions including low soil moisture, nutrient shortages and …

Relationships between plant diversity and soil properties are important for restoring
ecosystem function to adapt climate change in drylands. Taxonomic, functional and …

The structuring of plant assemblages along environmental gradients is typically explained
by shifts from competition (limiting similarity) to environmental filtering as the environment …