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

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 A. 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 L. 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

doi:10.1126/science.aad6236

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

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 A. 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 L. 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

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	457
Number of pages	1
Journal	Science
Volume	351
Issue number	6272
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6236
Publication status	Published - 29 Jan 2016

Keywords

biomass production
effect size
grassland
nonhuman
note
priority journal
regression analysis
sampling
species richness
statistical model
statistical significance
variance

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Tredennick, A. T., Adler, P. B., B.Grace, J., Stanley Harpole, W., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W., Michael Anderson, T., Bakker, J. D., Biederman, L. A., Brown, C. S., Buckley, Y. M., Chu, C., Collins, S. L., Crawley, M. J., Fay Jennifer Firn, P. A., Gruner, D. S., Hagenah, N., Hautier, Y., Hector, A., ... Yang, L. H. (2016). Comment on Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness. Science, 351(6272), 457. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad6236

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