Plant–soil negative feedback explains vegetation dynamics and patterns at multiple scales

Spatial patterns and self‐organization of plants has been a subject of fascination because the underlying mechanisms have been hard to determine, raising different explanatory hypotheses. Plant–soil negative feedback (PSNF) – defined as the induction of negative conditions for conspecific establishment – has been widely studied in both field and laboratory conditions, and conceptually demonstrated by some modelling works. We present a...