134671 20260217205516.0 doi 10.1111/ele.14425 sideral 138190 ART-2024-138190 eng Daniel, Caroline Fast–slow traits predict competition network structure and its response to resources and enemies 2024 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Plants interact in complex networks but how network structure depends on resources, natural enemies and species resource‐use strategy remains poorly understood. Here, we quantified competition networks among 18 plants varying in fast–slow strategy, by testing how increased nutrient availability and reduced foliar pathogens affected intra‐ and inter‐specific interactions. Our results show that nitrogen and pathogens altered several aspects of network structure, often in unexpected ways due to fast and slow growing species responding differently. Nitrogen addition increased competition asymmetry in slow growing networks, as expected, but decreased it in fast growing networks. Pathogen reduction made networks more even and less skewed because pathogens targeted weaker competitors. Surprisingly, pathogens and nitrogen dampened each other's effect. Our results show that plant growth strategy is key to understand how competition respond to resources and enemies, a prediction from classic theories which has rarely been tested by linking functional traits to competition networks. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/PID2021-127607OB- I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es 7.9 2024 ECOLOGY 7 / 200 = 0.035 2024 Q1 T1 3.905 2024 Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 2024 Q1 13.2 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Allan, Eric Saiz, Hugo Universidad de Zaragoza Godoy, Oscar 5011 220 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. CC.Agrar.y Medio Natural Área Ecología 27, 4 (2024), el14425 [16 pp.] Ecol. lett. ECOLOGY LETTERS 1461-023X 6322515 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/134671/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2627498 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/134671/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:134671 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:26:53 ARTICLE