Biotic and abiotic factors interact with dominant plants—the locally most frequent or with the largest coverage—and nondominant plants differently, partially because dominant plants modify the environment where nondominant ...

The vertical zonation and dominance of salt marshes halophytic plants has long attracted the attention of ecologist, since their waterlogged soils can be anoxic and highly saline, limiting plants that do not have mechanisms ...

It is widely recognized that arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) influence plant community structure. Several studies in the past few years have focused on the effect of AMF on plant diversity, showing contradictory results. ...

Question: Do herbivory and the presence of a dominant grass competitor interactively affect herbaceous communities and assembly rules in a SW Atlantic salt marsh?. Location: Upper salt marsh, Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon, ...

Recent applications of coexistence theory to plant invasions posit that non-natives establish in resident communities through either niche differences or traits conferring them with fitness advantages, the former being ...

Reductions in community evenness can lead to local extinctions as dominant species exclude subordinate species; however, herbivores can prevent competitiveexclusion by consuming otherwise dominant plant species, thus ...