Authors
Christopher J Lortie, Alessandro Filazzola, Diego A Sotomayor
Publication date
2016/1
Journal
Functional Ecology
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
41-51
Description
  1. Facilitation studies focus primarily on plants often neglecting the extended effects that cascade through ecological networks. Plants interact with other organisms through consumptive effects and a myriad of non‐trophic effects such as habitat amelioration or pollination.
  2. Shrubs are a dominant benefactor species frequent in plant‐facilitation studies but can also have direct and indirect interactions with animals. Herein, we use a systematic review to address the following two objectives: (i) to propose a conceptual framework that explores these interactions including the functional roles of the interacting species, and (ii) to quantitatively summarize the current state of this field examining effects beyond plant–plant interactions.
  3. To date, a relatively limited number of studies have examined the importance of coupled benefactor‐subordinate plant positive interactions with animals (79 studies in total). From this set of …
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Scholar articles
CJ Lortie, A Filazzola, DA Sotomayor - Functional Ecology, 2016