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Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition.
Published 2014“…Our study provides an overall test of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis and demonstrates the crucial role that insects and pathogens have both in structuring tropical plant communities and in maintaining their remarkable diversity.…”
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Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition
Published 2014“…Tropical forests are important reservoirs of biodiversity, but the processes that maintain this diversity remain poorly understood. The Janzen-Connell hypothesis suggests that specialized natural enemies such as insect herbivores and fungal pathogens maintain high diversity by elevating mortality when plant species occur at high density (negative density dependence; NDD). …”
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Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree.
Published 2010“…The Janzen-Connell hypothesis is a leading explanation for plant-species diversity in tropical forests. …”
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