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In stressful environments, nurse elements, such as shrubs or rocks, facilitate plant recruitment by providing less severe environments for seed germination and seedling survival. As seedlings develop, however, they may compete for resources with their nurse when it is a plant instead of a rock. We examined the role of conspecific plants and rocks as nurses of an endangered Atacama-Desert shrub. Establishment was highest under conspecific plants, revealing that in stressful environments plants can facilitate establishment of their own species. Our study contrasts findings from other environments where recruitment is lowest near plants of the same species.

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Conspecific plants are better ‘nurses’ than rocks: consistent results revealing intraspecific facilitation as a process that promotes establishment in a hyper-arid environment