Refining the stress‐gradient hypothesis for competition and facilitation in plant communities

By Fernando T. Maestre, R. Callaway, F. Valladares, Christopher J. Lortie. 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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The role of plant interactions in the restoration of degraded ecosystems: a meta‐analysis across life‐forms and ecosystems (2009, background): “The outcome of plant interactions is highly variable because it implies a balance of positive and negative effects that may change depending on several factors such as the characteristics of the species interacting or the environmental conditions (Callaway & Walker 1997; Armas & Pugnaire 2005; Maest”
Effects of facilitation on community stability and dynamics: synthesis and future directions (2009, background): “Scheffer, unpublished data), environmental severity is relative to the stress tolerance and resource use adaptations of species, such that some species within a community may exhibit different facilitative responses to environmental variation (Maestre et al. 2009) and entire communities may be restr”
Climate and competition effects on tree growth in Rocky Mountain forests (2017, background): “Much of the evidence for facilitation has been detected using experimental approaches restricted to a limited range of environments and over short study periods (Brooker et al. 2008; Maestre et al. 2009).”
Effects of stand composition and tree size on resistance and resilience to drought in sessile oak and Scots pine (2015, background): “…usually 521 present various effects of species mixtures in forests in case of biotic and abiotic disturbances, 522 whether they present benefits or drawbacks (Knoke et al., 2008; Maestre et al., 2009; Felton 523 et al., 2010; Lebourgeois et al., 2013; Perot et al., 2013; Pretzsch et al., 2013).”
Phosphorus availability and microbial community in the rhizosphere of intercropped cereal and legume along a P-fertilizer gradient (2016, methodology): “…effect Our experiment was conducted in a long-term P-fertilizer trial with three contrasting levels to evaluate the effect of soil P status on plant-plant interactions and more precisely to test the stress-gradient hypothesis proposed in ecology (Maestre et al. 2009; Le Roux and McGeoch 2010).”
Designing resilient and sustainable grasslands for a drier future: Adaptive strategies, functional traits and biotic interactions (2013, background): “Hence, if facilitation among species is a potential means by which plant performance may be enhanced, it should be most apparent under severe stress or in resource-poor environments (Callaway et al. 2002; Maestre et al. 2009; Armas et al. 2011).”
Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes (2012, background): “Additionally, facilitation in stressful environments is particularly expected when abiotic stress is mainly induced by a non-resource stressors (e.g., temperature; Maestre et al. 2009) as is commonly the case in mountain areas.”
Effects of litter on seedling establishment in natural and semi‐natural grasslands: a meta‐analysis (2013, background): “Maestre et al. (2009) emphasized that when both resource and non-resource attributes are changed simultaneously, facilitation is expected to increase.”
The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe (2021, result): “Thus, under the improving belowground resources that follow a drought event, the relationship between species may change from positive to negative, which is in line with the stress gradient hypothesis (Maestre et al. 2009) and Forrester’s framework (Forrester, 2014).”
Indirect facilitation promotes macrophyte survival and growth in freshwater ecosystems threatened by eutrophication (2012, background): “Indeed, recent studies have shown for terrestrial plants that the outcome of plant–plant interactions (direction and intensity) depends on species-specific tolerances (Choler, Michalet & Callaway 2001; Liancourt, Callaway & Michalet 2005; see also Maestre et al. 2009 for a review).”
Effects of competition on tree radial‐growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients (2011, background): “…debate has been focused on the stress gradient hypothesis (SGH), which predicts that the role of competition decreases and facilitation increases with increasing stress, although we note that the role of facilitation may diminish in very severe conditions (Brooker et al. 2008; Maestre et al. 2009).”