@article{fdi:010082133,
  title = {{I}ndirect facilitation drives species composition and stability in drylands [+ correction p. 205]},
  author = {{D}anet, {A}. and {S}chneider, {F}. {D}. and {A}nthelme, {F}abien and {K}efi, {S}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{D}ryland ecosystems are likely to respond discontinuously to gradual changes in environmental conditions. {D}irect facilitation between plants, whereby plants improve the local environmental conditions for others, has been shown to be a mechanism contributing to these discontinuous ecosystem transitions. {T}heoretical models describing dryland vegetation dynamics often consider a single plant species and one type of facilitation, namely direct facilitation. {H}owever, another type of facilitation-indirect facilitation-is widespread in dryland ecosystems as well; it is performed by plants protected against grazing, the nurses, when this protection extends to other plants growing in their neighbourhood that are deprived of such protection, the protegees. {L}ittle is known about the long-term effects of indirect facilitation on dryland dynamics. {H}ere, we developed and analysed a theoretical model including two species-a nurse and a protegee-and indirect facilitation through grazing. {W}e investigated the effects of indirect facilitation on species composition, species spatial clustering and the stability of dryland ecosystems. {W}e showed that indirect facilitation through grazing enables the stable coexistence of the nurse and the protegee and allows the reversibility of the protegee extinction. {S}urprisingly, the strength of indirect facilitation affected neither the total nor the interspecific vegetation clustering. {O}ur study highlights that spatially explicit grazing protection may affect species composition and the stability of dryland ecosystems and gives hints about how species interactions translate into spatial clustering.},
  keywords = {{ZONE} {ARIDE} ; {ZONE} {SEMIARIDE} ; {G}razing ; {I}ndirect facilitation ; {S}tability ; {D}rylands ; {A}lternative stable states ; {C}atastrophic shifts ; {R}esilience},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{T}heoretical {E}cology},
  volume = {14},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {189--203 [+ correction p. 205]},
  ISSN = {1874-1738},
  year = {2021},
  DOI = {10.1007/s12080-020-00489-0},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010082133},
}