Extreme drought stress shifts net facilitation to neutral interactions between shrubs and sub‐canopy plants in an arid desert

381 This work is licensed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY)  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/ . The license permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Subject Editor: Richard Michalet Editor-in-Chief: Dries Bonte Accepted 23 August 2017 127: 381–391, 2018 doi: 10.1111/oik.04630 doi: 10.1111/oik.04630 127 381–391

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  2018

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  2018-03-01

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  Biology, Environmental Science

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