Patterns of woody plant species abundance and diversity in the seedling layer of a tropical forest

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Developmental changes in habitat associations of tropical trees (2007, background): “seedling plot in the centre of each 5 × 5 m subquadrat of the 50-ha FDP, for a total of 20 000 plots ( Comita et al . 2007 ).”
Conspecific and phylogenetic density‐dependent survival differs across life stages in a tropical forest (2015, background): “Starting in 2001, free-standing woody seedlings ≥20 cm tall and <1 cm dbh were identified and measured every 1 to 2 years in 20 000 1-m2 permanent plots located in the centre of each 5 9 5 m subquadrat of the 50-ha plot (Comita et al. 2007a, 2010).”
Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014, background): “Within species, Janzen–Connell effects are thought to be most prevalent at early life stages, when individuals are more vulnerable to natural enemy attack and tend to be highly clumped because of limited seed dispersal (Nathan & Muller-Landau 2000; Comita et al. 2007).”