Six-year removal of co-dominant grasses alleviated competitive pressure on subdominant grasses but dominant shrub removal had neutral effects in a subalpine ecosystem

• Main Authors: Li, Wenjin, Knops, Johannes M. H., Png, Kenny Guochen, Yan, Xi, Dong, Huan, Li, Jinhua, Zhou, Huakun, Sierra, Rubén Díaz
• Other Authors: Asian School of the Environment
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Stress-gradient Hypothesis; Removal Experiments
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/147584
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The ‘stress-gradient hypothesis’ predicts increasing facilitative interactions with increasing environmental stress, but it remains unclear if the prevailing type of interaction (i.e. facilitative or competitive) between dominant and subordinate plant species occurring in harsh environments is depen...