Facilitation in plant communities: the past, the present, and the future

By Rob W. Brooker, Fernando T. Maestre, R. Callaway, Christopher L. Lortie, L. Cavieres, G. Kunstler, P. Liancourt, Katja Tielbörger, Justin M. J. Travis, Fabien Anthelme and 14 more. 2007

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Above‐ versus below‐ground competitive effects and responses of a guild of temperate tree species (2009, background): “Booth 2004 ). Even if the interaction is resource-based, there is ample evidence that the effects of neighbouring trees on soil resource availability can be controlled by ‘supply-side’ effects of ecosystem processes such as litterfall chemistry rather than simply by ‘demand-side’ effects of resource”
Experimental evidence for indirect facilitation among invasive plants (2014, background): “Facilitative interactions have received increasing attention as potential drivers of plant community structure (reviewed by Brooker et al. 2008).”
Influence of Environmental Variability on Root Dynamics in Northern Forests (2009, background): “By most accounts, mechanisms of competition and facilitation ( Vandermeer, 1992 ; Man and Lieffers, 1999 ; Brooker et al.”
Plant–plant interactions in tropical alpine environments (2012, neutral): “While these interactions include both intraspecific and interspecific levels (Brooker et al., 2008) most available studies in temperate and sub-polar/alpine environments have analysed the latter level.”
Facilitation research in marine systems: state of the art, emerging patterns and insights for future developments (2009, background): “…or alpine tundra (Choler, Michalet & Callaway 2001; Bret-Harte et al. 2004; GómezAparicio et al. 2004; Cavieres, Quiroz & Molina-Montenegro 2007; Brooker et al. 2008), but less frequently in less extreme ecosystems such as pastures, prairies or grasslands (see Table S1 in Brooker et al. 2008).”
Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species‐rich assemblage (2014, methodology): “stress amelioration and thus depend on tolerance (Flores & Jurado 2003; Brooker et al. 2008), so functional groups separate succulent and non-succulent plants.”
High competitiveness of a resource demanding invasive acacia under low resource supply (2009, background): “Generally, the highest competition intensity is expected at high resource availability (Grime and Hodgson 1987 and references therein), whereas facilitation, defined here as a positive interaction effects, are more likely to occur under high but not excessive stress conditions (Callaway et al. 2002;”
A meta-analysis of context-dependency in plant response to inoculation with mycorrhizal fungi. (2010, background): “Recently, ecologists have begun to propose specific hypotheses on how simultaneous positive and negative interactions influence plant community dynamics (Lortie et al. 2004; Brooker et al. 2008; Maestre et al. 2009).”
Socialism in soil? The importance of mycorrhizal fungal networks for facilitation in natural ecosystems (2009, background): “changes in the abiotic environment or through other organisms (Brooker et al. 2008).”
Feedbacks between geomorphology and biota controlling Earth surface processes and landforms: A review of foundation concepts and current understandings (2011, background): “Thus, the way in which interactions between organisms and resulting diversity vary as physical disturbances and environmental stress change, received considerable attention from the ecological perspective (Brooker et al., 2008).”
Effects of competition on tree radial‐growth vary in importance but not in intensity along climatic gradients (2011, background): “Negative and positive plant–plant interactions play a central role in regulating the composition and dynamics of plant communities (Keddy 1989; Brooker et al. 2008).”
Under strong niche overlap conspecifics do not compete but help each other to survive: facilitation at the intraspecific level (2010, background): “More insightful hypotheses about facilitation, its origins and its evolutionary consequences, are being explored and needed (e.g. Brooker et al. 2008; Valiente-Banuet &Verdú 2008; Kikvidze & Callaway 2009).”
Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress‐gradient hypothesis (2013, background): “Competitive interactions between coexisting plants have traditionally been believed to shape community structure (Grime 1977; Connell 1983), but recent research indicates the importance of both competitive and facilitative mechanisms (Bruno, Stachowicz & Bertness 2003; Brooker et al. 2008; Bullock 2”