Campus Units
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-29-2016
Journal or Book Title
Science
Volume
351
Issue
6272
First Page
457
Last Page
457
DOI
10.1126/science.aad6236
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.
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Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Tredennick, Andrew T.; Adler, Peter B.; Grace, James B.; Harpole, W. Stanley; Borer, Elizabeth T.; Seabloom, Eric W.; Anderson, T. Michael; Bakker, Jonathan D.; Biederman, Lori A.; Williams, Ryan J.; Fay, Philip A.; Brown, Cynthia S.; Buckley, Yvonne M.; Chu, Chengjin; Collins, Scott L.; Crawley, Michael J.; Firn, Jennifer; Gruner, Daniel S.; Hagenah, Nicole; and Hautier, Yann, "Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”" (2016). Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Publications. 246.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/eeob_ag_pubs/246
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Comments
This article is published as Tredennick, Andrew T., Peter B. Adler, James B. Grace, W. Stanley Harpole, Elizabeth T. Borer, Eric W. Seabloom, T. Michael Anderson et al. "Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”." Science 351, no. 6272 (2016): 457-457. doi: 10.1126/science.aad623.