Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest

By Scott A Mangan, Stefan A. Schnitzer, E. Herre, Keenan M. L. Mack, M. Valencia, Evelyn Sánchez, James D. Bever. Nature, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Geographic Variation in Species Diversity (2015, positive): “However, a recent evaluation of the latitudinal diversity gradient from the past 500 million years suggests that a steep biodiversity gradient from the poles to the equator occurs only during ice house climates like the past 30 million years (Mannion et al. 2014).”
Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges (2013, background): “Recent work has confirmed that reduced success of conspecific seedlings near adults (conspecific negative density dependence) in the tropics can be attributed to local scale plant–soil feedbacks (Mangan et al. 2010).”
Soil microbes drive the classic plant diversity-productivity pattern. (2011, background): “The presence of host-specific enemies, such as soil pathogens and parasites, may play an important role in explaining the stable maintenance of species diversity in many ecosystems (e.g., Klironomos 2002, Mangan et al. 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): “In addition, recent studies have found that rare species are more sensitive to species-specific pathogens (Klironomos 2002; Mangan et al. 2010), resulting in stronger negative density dependence for rare versus common species within plant communities (Comita et al. 2010; Johnson et al. 2012).”
Invasive plants escape from suppressive soil biota at regional scales (2014, background): “…are a major component of these impacts because pathogens often suppress plant recruitment, growth and survival (Bell, Freckleton & Lewis 2006; Mangan et al. 2010), reduce the relative abundance of species in communities (Bever 1994; Klironomos 2002), mediate competitive interactions between…”
Testing the roles of competition, facilitation and stochasticity on community structure in a species‐rich assemblage (2014, background): “…it has been found that competition during colonization sets limits to population size either by direct competition between conspecific seedlings or because of apparent competition with the mother plant mediated by natural enemies (Comita et al. 2010; Mangan et al. 2010; Johnson et al. 2012).”
Where, when and how plant-soil feedback matters in a changing world (2016, background): “2002), and low-abundance trees (Mangan et al. 2010; Johnson et al. 2012) all have been shown to be negative, so these are positioned in the bottom section of the triangle.”
Causes and implications of the correlation between forest productivity and tree mortality rates (2011, background): “Although fungal and other pathogens of boles and roots have been poorly studied in the tropics (Gilbert 2005, Garcı́a-Guzmán and Morales 2007), it is evident that they, too, contribute to tree mortality at BCI (e.g., Gilbert et al. 1994, Mangan et al. 2010).”
Plant–soil feedback links negative distance dependence and light gradient partitioning during seedling establishment (2013, background): “Our result is consistent with previous work in temperate grassland (Klironomos 2002) and tropical forest (Mangan et al. 2010) systems, where rarity seems to be reinforced by strong negative PSF.”
Scale‐dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests (2013, background): “…in a species’ performance as local abundance 153 of conspecifics decreases, and thus to better overall community-level performance, i.e. 154 higher productivity, when there are more species and fewer individuals per species 155 (Janzen 1970; Connell 1971; Comita et al. 2010; Mangan et al. 2010).”