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Understanding the main determinants of species coexistence across space andtime is a central question in ecology. However, ecologists still know littleabout the scales and conditions at which biotic interactions matter and howthese interact with the environment to structure species assemblages. Here weuse recent theory developments to analyze plant distribution and trait dataacross Europe and find that plant height clustering is related to bothevapotranspiration and gross primary productivity. This clustering is a signalof interspecies competition between plants, which is most evident inmid-latitude ecoregions, where conditions for growth (reflected in actualevapotranspiration rates and gross primary productivities) are optimal. Awayfrom this optimum, climate severity likely overrides the effect of competition,or other interactions become increasingly important. Our approach bridges thegap between species-rich competition theories and large-scale speciesdistribution data analysis.

A signal of competitive dominance in mid-latitude herbaceous plant communities