Janzen-Connell effects are widespread and strong enough to maintain diversity in grasslands.
Crop rotation schemes are believed to work by preventing specialist soil-borne pests from depressing the future yields of similar crops. In ecology, such negative plant-soil feedbacks may be viewed as a type of Janzen-Connell effect, which promotes species coexistence and diversity by preventing the...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2008
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