Background Ecological processes such as seedling establishment, biotic interactions, and
mortality can leave footprints on species spatial structure that can be detectable through …

Background Plants condition the soil in which they grow, thereby altering the performance of
subsequent plants growing in this soil. This phenomenon, known as plant-soil feedback …

Forest stand densities are increasing in the boreal and temperate biomes, suggesting that
tree‐tree competition is intensifying. Anticipating the consequences of this intensified …

Half a century ago, Janzen and Connell hypothesized that the high tree species diversity in
tropical forests is maintained by specialized natural enemies. Along with other mechanisms …

There is mounting evidence that species diversity increases the temporal stability of forest
growth. This stabilising effect of diversity has mainly been attributed to species differences in …

Conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD) promotes tree species diversity by
reducing recruitment near conspecific adults due to biotic feedbacks from herbivores …

Individual tree growth and mortality drive forest stand dynamics and are universally
important metrics of tree success. Studying factors that affect growth and mortality is …

The maintenance of tree diversity has been explained by multiple mechanisms. One of the
most thoroughly studied is conspecific negative density dependence, in which specialist …

Tree seedling dynamics underpin subsequent forest structure and diversity as different
species/guilds respond variously to abiotic and biotic stresses. Thus, understanding …

Studies of drivers shaping forest communities frequently include abiotic or biotic factors,
while their interactive effects remain understudied. Here, we combined data on two …