Effects of facilitation on community stability and dynamics: synthesis and future directions

By Bradley J. Butterfield. 2009

98 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/75916ea19e14821cea5c47f0ef4c85cd88a1866d

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecological Modeling

1. F. Pugnaire
2. C. Martorell
3. C. Armas
4. Qiang He
5. Marten Scheffer
6. M. Holmgren
7. A. Altieri
8. M. Spasojevic

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. F. Pugnaire
2. C. Armas
3. C. Schöb
4. C. Martorell
5. M. Bertness
6. A. Altieri
7. Qiang He
8. K. Suding

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. F. Pugnaire
2. C. Armas
3. Marten Scheffer
4. C. Schöb
5. M. Bertness
6. C. Martorell
7. A. Altieri
8. Qiang He

Citations in the corpus

• Direct and indirect interactions co‐determine species composition in nurse plant systems (2013, background): “However, we expected that an average of specieslevel interactions would underestimate community-level facilitation as species-level interactions do usually not consider cases of obligate facilitation, even though they may be common in harsh environments (Butterfield 2009).”
• Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species‐rich assemblage (2014, background): “…of positive interactions on community structure: they seem to increase species richness in some cases (Valiente-Banuet et al., 2006; Bruno, Stachowicz & Bertness 2003; Cavieres & Badano 2009), but also tend to destabilize communities and thus lead to species extinction (May 1973; Butterfield 2009).”
• Global shifts towards positive species interactions with increasing environmental stress. (2013, background): “Positive species interactions can also govern the stability (Butterfield 2009), productivity (Mulder et al. 2001) and energy flux (Ernst & Banks 2002) of ecosystems.”
• Strong facilitation in mild environments: the stress gradient hypothesis revisited (2010, background): “As facilitation has fundamental implications for the stability and functioning of communities (Butterfield 2009), it is important to recognize that the role of facilitation is not limited to extreme environments.”
• Inferring community assembly mechanisms from functional diversity patterns: the importance of multiple assembly processes (2012, background): “Second, facilitation often allows coexistence in stressful environments (Callaway et al. 2002; Brooker et al. 2008; Butterfield 2009).”