highly significantP < 0.001
stoebe and its neighbouring communities In the competition containers, biomass of EU neighbouring community explained a highly significant and substantial amount of the variation in biomass of C . stoebe (R 2 = 0.39, Δlog-likelihood = 4.91, P < 0.001; Fig 4a ), but NA neighbouring community did not explain variation in biomass of C . stoebe (R 2 = 0.05, Δlog-likelihood = -13.96, P = 0.48; Fig 4b ).