ArticleEcology letters2025
A Continuum From Positive to Negative Interactions Drives Plant Species' Performance in a Diverse Community.
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- Dispersal diversity buffers species vulnerability to local extinction.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Interaction matrices as unifying tools for navigating ecological complexity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Review
- Temporal Decoupling of Biodiversity Effects on Grassland Productivity and Stability.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Which, when, and where traits matter: functional trait-mediated species associations shift with microenvironmental and climatic variation.The New phytologist · 2026Article
- Indirect Interactions Driven by Soil Effects Enable Coexistence Among Competing Plant Species.Ecology letters · 2026Article
- Evolution in Response to an Abiotic Stress Shapes Species Coexistence.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Coexistence and extinction in flow-kick systems: An invasion growth rate approach.Journal of mathematical biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
With many species interacting in nature, determining which interactions describe community dynamics is nontrivial. By applying a computational modeling approach to an extensive field survey, we assessed the importance of interactions from plants (both inter- and intra-specific), pollinators and insect herbivores on plant performance (i.e., viable seed production). We compared the inclusion of interaction effects as aggregate guild-level terms versus terms specific to taxonomic groups. We found that a continuum from positive to negative interactions, containing mostly guild-level effects and a few strong taxonomic-specific effects, was sufficient to describe plant performance. While interactions with herbivores and intraspecific plants varied from weakly negative to weakly positive, heterospecific plants mainly promoted competition and pollinators facilitated plants. The consistency of these empirical findings over 3 years suggests that including the guild-level effects and a few taxonomic-specific groups rather than all pairwise and high-order interactions, can be sufficient for accurately describing species variation in plant performance across natural communities.
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