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SUBMITTER: Gougherty AV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10898760 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gougherty Andrew V AV Davies T Jonathan TJ
PLoS biology 20240227 2
Biodiversity appears to strongly suppress pathogens and pests in many plant and animal systems. However, this "dilution effect" is not consistently detected, and when present can vary strikingly in magnitude. Here, we use forest inventory data from over 25,000 plots (>1.1 million sampled trees) to quantify the strength of the dilution effect on dozens of forest pests and clarify why some pests are particularly sensitive to biodiversity. Using Bayesian hierarchical models, we show that pest preva ...[more]