Trees' enemies help tropical forests maintain their biodiversity

I don't know if I would call them "enemies"
I think "managers" is a better view
they don't seem to attack the host tree

https://www.sciencecodex.com/trees-enemies-help-tropical-forests-maintain-their-biodiversity-624312
Trees' enemies help tropical forests maintain their biodiversity

CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists have long struggled to explain how tropical forests can maintain their staggering diversity of trees without having a handful of species take over - or having many other species die out.

The answer, researchers say, lies in the soil found near individual trees, where natural "enemies" of tree species reside. These enemies, including fungi and arthropods, attack and kill many of the seeds and seedlings near the host tree, preventing local recruitment of trees of that same species.

Wow, that is so cool!

And, yet again, we find that the extinction of species could throw the local ecosystem into far more chaos than regularly expected - imagine if one of those arthropods is threatened by an invasive species or pesticide and dies off, now one tree could outcompete the others and throw the whole system into disarray!

And on another note, how could they not have coined the phrase "Symbiotic Allelopathy?" It would have been perfect!