Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests

Janzen, D. H. (1970). Herbivores and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests. The American Naturalist.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1970

DOI

10.1086/282687

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/282687

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1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Janzen-Connell Hypothesis
  • The Janzen-Connell hypothesis, proposed independently by Daniel Janzen (American Naturalist, 1970) and Joseph Connell (1971), holds that the exceptional tree-species diversity of tropical forests is maintained by a distance- and density-dependent mortality regime: seeds and seedlings suffer disproportionately high death rates near adult conspecific trees and near dense aggregations of conspecific seedlings, so that a recruit's probability of surviving to sapling stage rises systematically with its distance from the nearest parent of the same species and falls with the local density of same-species neighbors

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