Congratulations to Drs. Chrissy Alba, Cathy Fahey and Luke Flory for their composition, Global change stressors alter resources and shift plant interactions from facilitation to competition over time, on being selected to win the 2020 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Alba, Fahey, and Flory used a six-year field experiment to show that two global change agents, drought and a non-native invasive plant (Imperata cylindrica, cogongrass), interacted to determine native longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) survival and growth in temporally dynamic and unexpected ways, ranging from strong facilitation to competitive exclusion.
Citation: Alba C, Fahey C, Flory SL. 2019. Global change stressors alter resources and shift plant interactions from facilitation to competition over time. Ecology 100(12): e02859. DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2859
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