Frequency and intensity of facilitation reveal opposing patterns along a stress gradient
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Frequency and intensity of facilitation reveal opposing patterns along a stress gradient
Disentangling the different processes structuring ecological communities is a long-standing challenge. In species-rich ecosystems, most emphasis has so far been given to environmental filtering and competition processes, while facilitative interactions between species remain insufficiently studied. Here, we propose an analysis framework that not only allows for identifying pairs of facilitating...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Evolution
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2045-7758,2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.3855