Feedbacks between plants and soil microbes form a keystone to terrestrial community and
ecosystem dynamics. Recent advances in dissecting the spatial and temporal dynamics of …

As major consumers of plants, insect herbivores have strong potential to influence long‐term
patterns of plant abundance and community structure. Nonetheless, remarkably few …

Fungi are dominant ecological participants in the forest ecosystems, which play a major role
in recycling organic matter and channeling nutrients across trophic levels. Fungal …

The high tree diversity in tropical forests has long been a puzzle to ecologists. In the 1970s,
Janzen and Connell proposed that tree species (hosts) coexist due to the stabilizing actions …

Shade tolerance is a central concept in forest ecology and strongly influences forest
community dynamics. However, the plant traits and conditions conferring shade tolerance …

Plant enemies can indirectly affect pollinators by modifying plant traits, but simultaneous
tests of herbivore and pathogen effects are lacking, and the role of floral volatiles has …

The Janzen–Connell hypothesis (JCH) predicts that attack by specialist enemies on
seedlings increases with conspecific seedling density, but studies have rarely …

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Background & Aims: Understanding how species coexist is a core question in community
ecology that has long intrigued ecologists. Under the contemporary coexistence theory, the …

Plant–soil feedbacks (PSFs) are a key driver of species diversity and composition in plant
communities worldwide; however, the factors that may cause feedbacks to vary within …