Positive Interactions: Crucial Organizers in a Plant Community

摘要: For more than a century, ecologists have concentrated on competition as crucial process for community organization. However, recent experimental investigations uncovered the striking influence of positive interactions organization plant communities. Complex combinations and operating simultaneously among species seem to be widespread in nature. In present paper, we reviewed mechanism ecological importance communities, emphasizing certainties uncertainties that made it an attractive area research. Positive interactions, or facilitation, occur when one enhances survival, growth, richness another. The facilitation increases with abiotic stress relative decreases. Only by combining many fields biology can fully understand how occur. (Managing editor: Ya-Qin Han)