When facilitation meets clonal integration in forest canopies

What is it about?

Few studies have explored how – within the same system – clonality and positive plant-plant interactions might interact to regulate plant community composition. Canopy-dwelling epiphytes in species-rich forests provide an ideal system for studying this. The study provides novel evidence for interactive effects of clonality and facilitation between vascular and non-vascular species. It also provides important information for the conservation of forest canopy biodiversity by helping us to understand the processes that regulate diversity in these species-rich but fragile ecosystems.

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