Ants may buffer the Janzen–Connell effect in a tropical forest in Southwest China (OA)
https://botany.fyi/2a09i1
Zhou et al found that associations with ants positively influenced seedling survival and adult growth, and also, species with extrafloral nectaries experienced weaker conspecific negative density dependence compared with species without extrafloral nectaries.
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