Unpalatable plants facilitate tree sapling survival in wooded pastures

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Nurse plant theory and its application in ecological restoration in lower subtropics of China (2008, background): “Unpalatable species can be used in heavily grazed sites, because these nurse plants can provide refuges for small animals and target species [2,10,11].”
Facilitation of Quercus ilex recruitment by shrubs in Mediterranean open woodlands (2008, background): “…(Schupp 1995), have been described for a wide range of woody species in many ecosystems, predominantly for animal dispersed plants (García & OrtizPulido 2004; Jordano & Herrera 1995; Jordano & Schupp 2000; Traveset et al. 2003), but also for wind dispersers (Houle 1998; Smit et al. 2006b).”
Inclusion of biotic stress (consumer pressure) alters predictions from the stress gradient hypothesis (2009, background): “In the case of Smit et al. (2007) and Vandenberghe et al.”