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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Main Authors: Petermann, J, Fergus, A, Turnbull, L, Schmid, B
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008

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