title: Positive interactions in communities.
abstract: Current concepts of the role of interspecific interactions in communities have been shaped by a profusion of experimental studies of interspecific competition over the past few decades. Evidence for the importance of positive interactions - facilitations - in community organization and dynamics has accrued to the point where it warrants formal inclusion into community ecology theory, as it has been in evolutionary biology.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Bertness
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Callaway