Insect herbivory on seedlings of rainforest trees: Effects of density and distance of conspecific and heterospecific neighbours by Downey, H, Lewis, O, Bonsall, M, Fernandez, D, Gripenberg, S

“…The elevated rates of seedling herbivory at high densities of conspecifics documented in our study are consistent with the predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis, which explains how so many plant species can coexist in tropical forests. …”