Intercropping is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes,
growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern intensive agriculture …

While there is a large consensus that plant–plant interactions are a crucial component of the
response of plant communities to the effects of climate change, available data remain …

Facilitation (positive interactions among organisms) in communities has been the subject of
increasing interest for community ecologists since the mid-nineties (Fig. 1), although this is a …

Ecological theory predicts interactions between species to become more positive under
abiotic stress, while competition should prevail in more benign environments. However …

By capitalising on positive biodiversity–productivity relationships, intercropping provides
opportunities to improve agricultural sustainability. Intercropping is generally implemented …

Measurements of competition and facilitation between plants often rely upon intensity and
importance indices that quantify the net effect of neighbours on the performance of a target …

Theory questions the persistence of nonreciprocal interactions in which one plant has a
positive net effect on a neighbor that, in return, has a negative net impact on its benefactor–a …

Plant facilitative interactions enhance co‐occurrence between distant relatives, partly due to
limited overlap in resource requirements. We propose a different mechanism for the …

The spatial configuration of vascular vegetation has been linked to variations in land
degradation and ecosystem functioning in drylands. However, most studies on spatial …

Facilitation by nurse plants has received considerable attention, but the feedback effects of
beneficiaries on the benefactor fitness remain comparatively unexplored. In particular, to our …