Overview on biotic interactions and abiotic factors (stress and disturbance)

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Table of contents

CHAPTER ONE: LITERATURE OVERVIEW
1- Bridging ‘community ecology’ to ‘evolutionary biology’: the emergence of ‘community genetics’
2- Community assembly: from genes to communities
3- Evolution, natural selection and adaptation
4- Thesis objectives
CHAPTER TWO: STUDY SITES, MODEL SPECIES AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS
1- The study site in the Pyrenees, the model species (Festuca gautieri subsp. scoparia Hackel & Kerner), and the experimental designs
2- The study site in the Mount-Lebanon, the model species (Onobrychis cornuta (L.) Desv.) and the experimental design
CHAPTER THREE: Phenotypic differentiation within a foundation grass species correlates with species richness in a subalpine community
CHAPTER FOUR: Disentangling the heritable and plastic components of the competitive and facilitative effects of two contrasting phenotypes of a foundation species
CHAPTER FIVE: Differential effects of contrasting phenotypes of a foundation legume shrub drive plant-plant interactions in a Mediterranean mountain
CHAPTER SIX: SYNTHESIS
1- Determinism of the observed phenotypic variation: the contribution of genetic variation and phenotypic plasticity
2- Consequences of the phenotypic variation within foundation species on the subordinate species
3- Perspectives for future studies
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