Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

Bagchi. (2014). Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition. Nature.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2014

DOI

10.1038/nature12911

Link

https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12911

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Domain-specific

• Janzen-Connell Hypothesis
  • Robert Bagchi and colleagues carried the mechanism into a manipulative community-scale field experiment in a Belizean rainforest (Nature, 2014)

    This sourceBagchi and colleagues' Belize field experiment, which sprayed replicated rainforest plots with fungicide or insecticide and found that suppressing fungal pathogens reduced seedling diversity and shifted community composition.

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