Plant Facilitation and Phylogenetics

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Shedding light on shade: ecological perspectives of understorey plant life (2016, background): “The overall role of facilitation in plant community dynamics has been studied intensively (Valiente-Banuet and Verdu 2013), and we argue that a better understanding of the ecology of understorey life is crucial for making further progress in this field (Figure 3).”
Phylogenetic patterns are not proxies of community assembly mechanisms (they are far better) (2015, background): “Coexisting distantly related species are hence considered more likely to be complementary and to engage in mutualism than coexisting closely related species (Verdu et al. 2009; Valiente-Banuet & Verdu 2013, but see Venail et al. 2014 who found no effect).”
Structuring evidence for invasional meltdown: broad support but with biases and gaps (2018, result): “This agrees with Verdú et al. (2012) and Valiente-Banuet and Verdú (2013) who showed that facilitation is more common among distantly related species (i.e., species that have evolved separately).”