The strength of density-dependent mortality is contingent on climate and seedling size

Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale

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How does habitat filtering affect the detection of conspecific and phylogenetic density dependence?

(2016) Junjie Wu et al.   ECOLOGY

Seedling survival responses to conspecific density, soil nutrients, and irradiance vary with age in a tropical forest

(2016) Sydne Record et al.   ECOLOGY

Negative density dependence is stronger in resource-rich environments and diversifies communities when stronger for common but not rare species

(2016) Joseph A. LaManna et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Conspecific and phylogenetic density-dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest

(2015) Yan Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Negative density-dependent mortality varies over time in a wet tropical forest, advantaging rare species, common species, or no species

(2015) Bénédicte Bachelot et al.   OECOLOGIA

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(2015) Fernando Valladares et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Conspecific negative density-dependent mortality and the structure of temperate forests

(2014) Daniel J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY

Do pathogens limit the distributions of tropical trees across a rainfall gradient?

(2014) Erin R. Spear et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Testing predictions of the Janzen-Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival

(2014) Liza S. Comita et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

(2014) Robert Bagchi et al.   NATURE

Soil-borne pathogens restrict the recruitment of a subtropical tree: a distance-dependent effect

(2014) Meng Xu et al.   OECOLOGIA

Interspecific Neighbor Interactions Promote the Positive Diversity-Productivity Relationship in Experimental Grassland Communities

(2014) Yuhua Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Community shifts under climate change: Mechanisms at multiple scales

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Pathogen regulation of plant diversity via effective specialization

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Spatiotemporal variability of reference evapotranspiration and its contributing climatic factors in Yunnan Province, SW China, 1961–2004

(2012) Ze-Xin Fan et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Seasonal differentiation in density-dependent seedling survival in a tropical rain forest

(2012) Luxiang Lin et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of local biotic neighbors and habitat heterogeneity on tree and shrub seedling survival in an old-growth temperate forest

(2012) Xuejiao Bai et al.   OECOLOGIA

Density dependence across multiple life stages in a temperate old-growth forest of northeast China

(2012) Tiefeng Piao et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity

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Consequences of changing rainfall for fungal pathogen-induced mortality in tropical tree seedlings

(2012) Tom Swinfield et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival

(2011) Michelle H. Hersh et al.   ECOLOGY

Experimental evidence for a phylogenetic Janzen-Connell effect in a subtropical forest

(2011) Xubing Liu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Widespread density-dependent seedling mortality promotes species coexistence in a highly diverse Amazonian rain forest

(2010) Margaret R. Metz et al.   ECOLOGY

Testing the Janzen-Connell mechanism: pathogens cause overcompensating density dependence in a tropical tree

(2010) Robert Bagchi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Spatial and temporal temperature trends on the Yunnan Plateau (Southwest China) during 1961-2004

(2010) Ze-Xin Fan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Facilitation can maintain clustered spatial pattern of plant populations during density-dependent mortality: insights from a zone-of-influence model

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Seasonal and spatial variation in water availability drive habitat associations in a tropical forest

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   ECOLOGY

Pests vs. drought as determinants of plant distribution along a tropical rainfall gradient

(2009) Tania Brenes-Arguedas et al.   ECOLOGY

Local neighborhood and species' shade tolerance influence survival in a diverse seedling bank

(2009) Liza S. Comita et al.   ECOLOGY

Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

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