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20. Living at the Edge: Increasing Stress for Plants 2–13 Years After the Retreat of a Tropical Glacier F. Anthelme et al. 10.3389/fevo.2021.584872
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22. Cushion plants can have a positive effect on diversity at high elevations in the Himalayan Hengduan Mountains J. Chen et al. 10.1111/jvs.12275
23. Variation of biomass and morphology of the cushion plant Androsace tapete along an elevational gradient in the Tibetan Plateau Y. He et al. 10.1111/1442-1984.12031
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27. Multi-taxon patterns from high Andean peatlands: assessing climatic and landscape variables A. Izquierdo et al. 10.1007/s42974-020-00029-0
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29. Rhododendron aureum Georgi formed a special soil microbial community and competed with above‐ground plants on the tundra of the Changbai Mountain, China X. Wang et al. 10.1002/ece3.3307
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32. Thylacospermum caespitosum population structure and cushion species community diversity along an altitudinal gradient R. Zhao et al. 10.1007/s11356-018-2893-2
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34. Cushion plants act as facilitators for soil microarthropods in high alpine Sweden P. Ľuptáčik et al. 10.1007/s10531-021-02247-y
35. Fine Scale Patterns and Drivers of Plant Species Richness on a Sub‐Antarctic Island J. Tsamba et al. 10.1111/jvs.70015
36. Effect of cushion plants on the soil seed bank in overgrazed semiarid regions R. Erfanzadeh et al. 10.1002/ldr.3517
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39. Putative local adaptations modulate the interactions of the carnivorous plant Drosera uniflora Willd (1809) (Droseraceae) with cushion and shrub nurse plants J. Orellana & C. Valdivia 10.1111/aec.12762
40. Cushion-plant protection determines guild-dependent plant strategies in high-elevation peatlands of the Cordillera Real, Bolivian Andes V. Raevel et al. 10.1016/j.ppees.2017.09.006
41. Rhizosphere effect of three plant species of environment under periglacial conditions (Majella Massif, central Italy) L. Massaccesi et al. 10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.07.010
42. A multi-scale approach reveals random phylogenetic patterns at the edge of vascular plant life Y. Le Bagousse-Pinguet et al. 10.1016/j.ppees.2017.10.002
43. A global analysis of bidirectional interactions in alpine plant communities shows facilitators experiencing strong reciprocal fitness costs C. Schöb et al. 10.1111/nph.12641
44. Consequences of facilitation: one plant's benefit is another plant's cost C. Schöb et al. 10.1111/1365-2435.12185
45. How cushion plant communities structure nival soil biodiversity: A metabarcoding study in the French Alps K. Dumas et al. 10.1016/j.baae.2024.08.002
46. Community restructuring can maintain diversity across a severity gradient in the absence of foundation species L. Harris et al. 10.1890/ES14-00242.1
47. The influence of cushion plants on soil fertility islands under their canopies with ontogenesis in an extreme alpine ecosystem R. Zhao 10.1007/s11104-022-05798-3
48. Effects of foundation species above and below tree line R. Gavilán & R. Callaway 10.1080/11263504.2016.1200687
49. SGH: stress or strain gradient hypothesis? Insights from an elevation gradient on the roof of the world P. Liancourt et al. 10.1093/aob/mcx037
50. Shift from facilitative to neutral interactions by the cushion plant Silene acaulis along a primary succession gradient U. Kjær et al. 10.1111/jvs.12584
51. Warming enhances growth but does not affect plant interactions in an alpine cushion species F. Pugnaire et al. 10.1016/j.ppees.2020.125530
52. Testing the role of functional trait expression in plant–plant facilitation S. van der Merwe et al. 10.1111/1365-2435.13681
53. Leaf litter of a dominant cushion plant shifts nitrogen mineralization to immobilization at high but not low temperature in an alpine meadow Y. He et al. 10.1007/s11104-014-2216-4
54. Gender and abiotic stress affect community‐scale intensity of facilitation and its costs B. Cranston et al. 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2012.01981.x
55. Fine nurse variations explain discrepancies in the stress‐interaction relationship in alpine regions F. Anthelme et al. 10.1111/oik.04248
56. Cushion shrubs encroach subhumid rangelands and form fertility islands along a grazing gradient in Patagonia B. Vogel et al. 10.1007/s11104-022-05398-1
57. Nitrogen‐fixing cushion Astragalus siculus modulates soil fertility, microclimate, plant facilitation, bacterial and fungal microbiota along an elevation gradient G. Bonanomi et al. 10.1111/jvs.13193
58. Impact of differentially structured cushion plants on soil organic carbon content under dry high-mountain periglacial conditions M. Sulwiński et al. 10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117433
59. An exploratory study of facilitation in three species of Raoulia C. Kleier & T. Trenary 10.1080/0028825X.2017.1294084
60. Early life history responses and phenotypic shifts in a rare endemic plant responding to climate change D. Winkler et al. 10.1093/conphys/coz076
61. Cross‐scale facilitation: a framework for microclimate moderation of climate change L. Brigham & K. N. Suding 10.1111/oik.10241
62. Variation in plant functional groups indicates land degradation on the Tibetan Plateau J. Luo et al. 10.1038/s41598-018-36028-5
63. Shrub facilitation is an important driver of alpine plant community diversity and functional composition M. Ballantyne & C. Pickering 10.1007/s10531-015-0910-z
64. Soil under nurse plants is always better than outside: a survey on soil amelioration by a complete guild of nurse plants across a long environmental gradient M. Mihoč et al. 10.1007/s11104-016-2908-z