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Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”

Author(s) -

Andrew T. Tredennick,

Peter B. Adler,

James B. Grace,

W. Stanley Harpole,

Elizabeth T. Borer,

Eric W. Seabloom,

T. Michael Anderson,

Jonathan D. Bakker,

Lori Biederman,

Cynthia S. Brown,

Yvonne M. Buckley,

Chengjin Chu,

Scott L. Collins,

Michael J. Crawley,

Philip A. Fay,

Jennifer Firn,

Daniel S. Gruner,

Nicole Hagenah,

Yann Hautier,

Andy Hector,

Helmut Hillebrand,

Kevin Kirkman,

Johannes M. H. Knops,

Ramesh Laungani,

Eric M. Lind,

Andrew S. MacDougall,

Rebecca L. McCulley,

Charles E. Mitchell,

Joslin L. Moore,

John W. Morgan,

John L. Orrock,

Pablo Luís Peri,

Suzanne M. Prober,

Anita C. Risch,

Martin Schütz,

Karina L. Speziale,

Rachel J. Standish,

Lauren L. Sullivan,

Glenda M. Wardle,

Ryan J. Williams,

Louie H. Yang

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.556

H-Index - 1186

eISSN - 1095-9203

pISSN - 0036-8075

DOI - 10.1126/science.aad6236

Subject(s) - species richness , productivity , contrast (vision) , ecology , geography , economic geography , biology , demography , economics , computer science , sociology , economic growth , artificial intelligence

Fraser et al. (Reports, 17 July 2015, p. 302) report a unimodal relationship between productivity and species richness at regional and global scales, which they contrast with the results of Adler et al. (Reports, 23 September 2011, p. 1750). However, both data sets, when analyzed correctly, show clearly and consistently that productivity is a poor predictor of local species richness

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