Pathogens and insect herbivores drive rainforest plant diversity and composition

By Robert Bagchi, R. Gallery, Sofia Gripenberg, Sarah J. Gurr, Lakshmi Narayan, C. Addis, R. Freckleton, O. Lewis. Nature, 2014

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Testing predictions of the Janzen–Connell hypothesis: a meta-analysis of experimental evidence for distance- and density-dependent seed and seedling survival (2014, background): “In particular, pathogens have been implicated as agents of negative density and distance dependence in a number of recent experimental studies from both temperate and tropical forests (Packer & Clay 2000; Freckleton & Lewis 2006; Bagchi et al. 2010, 2014; Mangan et al. 2010; Liu et al. 2012).”
How mycorrhizal associations drive plant population and community biology (2020, background): “Because AMplants are relatively vulnerable to soil-borne pathogen attack and accumulate soil-borne pathogens, densitydependent accumulation of taxon-specific pathogens in the rhizosphere may suppress the abundance of prevalent AM plant species and hence contribute to the high plant diversity in AM-d”
Global diversity and geography of soil fungi (2014, background): “Strong phylogenetic signals in soil feedbacks, adaptive radiation, and negative density dependence (the Janzen-Connell hypothesis) have probably contributed to the pronounced richness of both plants and their pathogens at low latitudes (36, 37).”