ReviewiScience2019
Foundation Species, Non-trophic Interactions, and the Value of Being Common.
Review in iScience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analysis of ecosystem services associated with oyster restoration.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2023Pooled it
- Marine Heatwaves Overwhelm the Buffering Benefits of Marine Protected Areas: Two Decades of Collapse in a Mediterranean Gorgonian.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Legacies of foundation species shape life after death.Science advances · 2026Article
- Large-scale experimental evaluation of woody plant removal in desert grassland: Restoration, novelty, or degradation?Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Landscape Genomic Analyses ofEvolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Optimizing ecosystem restoration with facilitation cascades.Bioscience · 2026Review
- Mating portfolio and neutral mechanisms are primary causes of genet-ramet frequencies and spatial distributions in smooth cordgrass (Frontiers in genetics · 2026Article
- Nutrient Addition Has a Stronger Effect Than Intraspecific Genetic Diversity on Critical Ecological Responses in a Salt Marsh Foundation Species.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Keystone Predation: What Is It, and Is It Supported by Empirical Evidence?Ecology and evolution · 2025Review
- General laws of biodiversity: Climatic niches predict plant range size and ecological dominance globally.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Assessing the utility of experimentally derived upper thermal limits to predict vulnerability of marine macrophytes to future ocean warming.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Low but significant evolutionary potential for growth, phenology and reproduction traits in European beech.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Impacts of biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debts on the safe operating space of social-ecological systems: a theoretical modelling study.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Removing dead coral after marine heatwaves can mitigate coral-algae competition and increase viable coral recruitment.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- The influence of native shrub density on bird communities in the southern drylands of California, USA.BMC ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Spatially Varying Selection Amplifies Intrapopulation Differentiation Among Phenotypic Traits in the Rocky-Shore Mussel,Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- The Role of Faculty in Cultivating Thriving Campus STEM Ecosystems.CBE life sciences education · 2025Article
- Connecting the dots: Managing species interaction networks to mitigate the impacts of global change.eLife · 2025Review
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Abstract
Foundation species define ecosystems, control the biological diversity of associated species, modulate critical ecosystem processes, and often have important cultural values and resonance. This review summarizes current understanding of the characteristics and traits of foundation species and how to distinguish them from other "important" species in ecological systems (e.g., keystone, dominant, and core species); illustrates how analysis of the structure and function of ecological networks can be improved and enriched by explicit incorporation of foundation species and their non-trophic interactions; discusses the importance of pro-active identification and management of foundation species as a cost-effective and efficient method of sustaining valuable ecosystem processes and services and securing populations of associated rare, threatened, or endangered species; and suggests broader engagement of citizen-scientists and non-specialists in the identification and study of foundation species and their biological and cultural values.
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