José Ramón Obeso

TL;DR: The mechanisms that enable the compensation of the reproductive costs are detailed, including the plastic responses of photosynthesis and growth, the effects of the timing of investment, plant architecture and plant physiological integration.

TL;DR: A novel model proposes a novel approach that relates the diversity of both species and interactions along a gradient of environmental deterioration and explores how the rate of loss of ecological functions, and consequently of ecosystem services, can be accelerated or restrained depending on how the rates of species loss covaries with the rateof interactions loss.

TL;DR: It is suggested that nurse plants mitigate the negative effect of herbivores on yew regeneration, by providing defence against browsing and trampling, and range-scale yew management must consider the local functioning of the interaction among avian seed-dispersers, nurse fleshy-fruited plants and ungulate herbivory in combination with regional measures, targeting the habitats where facilitation emerges.

TL;DR: This study suggests the importance of considering several levels of the modular hierarchy for the analyses of costs of reproduction in the dioecious tree Ilex aquifolium, which suggests that branch growth and trunk growth might be decoupled.

TL;DR: Sex ratio and sexual dimorphism in physiology and growth were studied in the dioecious tree Ilex aquifolium at two localities in northern Spain and efficiency of photosynthesis was significantly lower on fruiting branches of female plants than on nonfruiting branches.