Herbivores as drivers of negative density dependence in tropical forest saplings
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Conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity.
Conspecific negative density-dependent establishment, in which local abundance negatively affects establishment of conspecific seedlings through host-specific enemies, can influence species diversity of plant communities, but the generality of this process is not well understood. We tested the strength of density dependence using the United States Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis ...
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Johnson and colleagues (Reports, 18 May 2012, p. 904) claim that conspecific negative density dependence is a pervasive mechanism driving forest diversity, especially for rare tree species. We show that their results are due to a statistical bias in their analysis caused by the exclusion of joint absences.
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.aau9460