The twelve theories of co‐existence in plant communities: the doubtful, the important and the unexplored

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Hydrological niches in terrestrial plant communities: a review (2015, background): “The problem of coexistence in plant communities and its potential solutions have been recently reviewed by Wilson (2011).”
Spatial scale resolves the niche versus neutral theory debate (2014, background): “…and equalizing processes in determining species co-existence is in fact a scaling problem; species that cannot co-exist at small scales, perhaps because there are no stabilizing factors, can do so at larger scales as habitat heterogeneity (a stabilizing factor) is encompassed (e.g. Wilson 2011).”
Testing the ability of functional diversity indices to detect trait convergence and divergence using individual‐based simulation (2016, background): “The theorywas originally developed in the context of resource competition, but there are several other potential stabilizingmechanisms (Chesson 2000; Wilson 2011) that can be based on differences in species attributes.”
Plant species richness: the world records (2012, background): “The co-existence of large numbers of species is also of theoretical importance as a challenge to the ‘Paradox of the Plankton’ (Hutchinson 1961; Wilson 1990, 2011; Palmer 1994).”