We present strong evidence that pathogens play a critical role in structuring plant
communities and maintaining plant diversity. Pathogens mediate plant species coexistence …

Abstract The Janzen–Connell (J‐C) hypothesis suggests that specialised natural enemies
cause distance‐or density‐dependent mortality among host plants and is regarded as an …

Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Regression dilution is a statistical inference bias that causes underestimation of the strength
of dependency between two variables when the predictors are error‐prone proxies (EPPs) …

Tropical tree diversity increases with rainfall,. Direct physiological effects of moisture
availability and indirect effects mediated by biotic interactions are hypothesized to contribute …

Density dependence could maintain diversity in forests, but studies continue to disagree on
its role. Part of the disagreement results from the fact that different studies have evaluated …

Specialised natural enemies maintain forest diversity by reducing tree survival in a density‐
or distance‐dependent manner. Fungal pathogens, insects and mammals are the enemy …

In fragmented forests, tree diversity declines near edges but the ecological processes
underlying this loss of diversity remain poorly understood. Theory predicts that top-down …

Abstract The enemy‐induced Janzen–Connell (JC) effect, a classic model invoking
conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) and distance dependence, is a primary …

In this work, we theoretically explore how litter decomposition processes and soil-borne
pathogens contribute to negative plant–soil feedbacks, in particular in transient and stable …