Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

Lauchlan H Fraser¹, Jason Pither², Anke Jentsch³, Marcelo Sternberg⁴, Martin Zobel⁵, Diana Askarizadeh⁶, Sandor Bartha⁷, Carl Beierkuhnlein⁸, Jonathan A Bennett⁹, Alex Bittel¹⁰, Bazartseren Boldgiv¹¹, Ilsi I Boldrini¹², Edward Bork¹³, Leslie Brown¹⁴, Marcelo Cabido¹⁵, James Cahill⁹, Cameron N Carlyle¹³, Giandiego Campetella¹⁶, Stefano Chelli¹⁶, Ofer Cohen⁴, Anna-Maria Csergo¹⁷, Sandra Díaz¹⁵, Lucas Enrico¹⁵, David Ensing², Alessandra Fidelis¹⁸, Jason D Fridley¹⁹, Bryan Foster¹⁰, Heath Garris²⁰, Jacob R Goheen²¹, Hugh A L Henry²², Maria Hohn²³, Mohammad Hassan Jouri²⁴, John Klironomos², Kadri Koorem⁵, Rachael Lawrence-Lodge²⁵, Ruijun Long²⁶, Pete Manning²⁷, Randall Mitchell²⁰, Mari Moora⁵, Sandra C Müller²⁸, Carlos Nabinger²⁹, Kamal Naseri³⁰, Gerhard E Overbeck¹², Todd M Palmer³¹, Sheena Parsons¹⁰, Mari Pesek¹⁰, Valério D Pillar²⁸, Robert M Pringle³², Kathy Roccaforte¹⁰, Amanda Schmidt³³, Zhanhuan Shang²⁶, Reinhold Stahlmann⁸, Gisela C Stotz⁹, Shu-ichi Sugiyama³⁴, Szilárd Szentes³⁵, Don Thompson³⁶, Radnaakhand Tungalag¹¹, Sainbileg Undrakhbold¹¹, Margaretha van Rooyen³⁷, Camilla Wellstein³⁸, J Bastow Wilson³⁹, Talita Zupo¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada. lfraser@tru.ca.
² Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Disturbance Ecology, BayCEER, Uni- versity of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
⁵ Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁶ Faculty of Natural Resources College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran.
⁷ MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary, and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
⁸ Department of Biogeography, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Manhattan, KS 66047, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
¹² Department of Botany, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹³ Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
¹⁴ Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit, University of South Africa, Johannesberg, South Africa.
¹⁵ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV-CONICET) and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, España.
¹⁶ School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
¹⁷ School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁸ Departamento de Botânica, UNESP - Univ. Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil.
¹⁹ Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
²⁰ Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
²¹ Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
²² Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
²³ Department of Botany, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
²⁴ Department of Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University, Nour Branch, Iran.
²⁵ Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
²⁶ International Centre for Tibetan Plateau Ecosystem Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
²⁷ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3013, Bern, Switzerland.
²⁸ Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²⁹ Faculty of Agronomy, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
³⁰ Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
³¹ Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
³² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
³³ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
³⁴ Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan.
³⁵ Institute of Plant Production, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary.
³⁶ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
³⁷ Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
³⁸ Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.
³⁹ Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Landcare Research, Dunedin, New Zealand.

PMID: 26185249
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3916

Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

Lauchlan H Fraser et al. Science. 2015.

. 2015 Jul 17;349(6245):302-5.

doi: 10.1126/science.aab3916.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada. lfraser@tru.ca.
² Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Disturbance Ecology, BayCEER, Uni- versity of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁴ Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
⁵ Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁶ Faculty of Natural Resources College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Iran.
⁷ MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary, and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
⁸ Department of Biogeography, BayCEER, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Manhattan, KS 66047, USA.
¹¹ Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
¹² Department of Botany, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
¹³ Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
¹⁴ Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit, University of South Africa, Johannesberg, South Africa.
¹⁵ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV-CONICET) and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, España.
¹⁶ School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
¹⁷ School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁸ Departamento de Botânica, UNESP - Univ. Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, Brazil.
¹⁹ Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.
²⁰ Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
²¹ Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
²² Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
²³ Department of Botany, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
²⁴ Department of Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University, Nour Branch, Iran.
²⁵ Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
²⁶ International Centre for Tibetan Plateau Ecosystem Management, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.
²⁷ Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH-3013, Bern, Switzerland.
²⁸ Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²⁹ Faculty of Agronomy, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
³⁰ Department of Range and Watershed Management, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
³¹ Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.
³² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
³³ Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
³⁴ Laboratory of Plant Ecology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Japan.
³⁵ Institute of Plant Production, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary.
³⁶ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada.
³⁷ Department of Plant Science, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
³⁸ Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.
³⁹ Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Landcare Research, Dunedin, New Zealand.

PMID: 26185249
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3916

Erratum in

Erratum for the Report "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness," by Lauchlan H. Fraser, J. Pither, A. Jentsch, M. Sternberg, M. Zobel, D. Askarizadeh, S. Bartha, C. Beierkuhnlein, J. A. Bennett, A. Bittel, B. Boldgiv, I. I. Boldrini, E. Bork, L. Brown, M. Cabido, J. Cahill, C. N. Carlyle, G. Campetella, S. Chelli, O. Cohen, A.-M. Csergo, S. Díaz, L. Enrico, D. Ensing, A. Fidelis, J. D. Fridley, B. Foster, H. Garris, J. R. Goheen, H. A. L. Henry, M. Hohn, M. H. Jouri, J. Klironomos, K. Koorem, R. Lawrence-Lodge, R. Long, P. Manning, R. Mitchell, M. Moora, S. C. Müller, C. Nabinger, K. Naseri, G. E. Overbeck, T. M. Palmer, S. Parsons, M. Pesek, V. D. Pillar, R. M. Pringle, K. Roccaforte, A. Schmidt, Z. Shang, R. Stahlmann, G. C. Stotz, S. Sugiyama, S. Szentes, D. Thompson, R. Tungalag, S. Undrakhbold, M. van Rooyen, C. Wellstein, J. B. Wilson, T. Zupo.
[No authors listed] [No authors listed] Science. 2021 May 28;372(6545):eabj5097. doi: 10.1126/science.abj5097. Science. 2021. PMID: 34045328 No abstract available.

Abstract

The search for predictions of species diversity across environmental gradients has challenged ecologists for decades. The humped-back model (HBM) suggests that plant diversity peaks at intermediate productivity; at low productivity few species can tolerate the environmental stresses, and at high productivity a few highly competitive species dominate. Over time the HBM has become increasingly controversial, and recent studies claim to have refuted it. Here, by using data from coordinated surveys conducted throughout grasslands worldwide and comprising a wide range of site productivities, we provide evidence in support of the HBM pattern at both global and regional extents. The relationships described here provide a foundation for further research into the local, landscape, and historical factors that maintain biodiversity.

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Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
Laanisto L, Hutchings MJ. Laanisto L, et al. Science. 2015 Dec 4;350(6265):1177. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4836. Science. 2015. PMID: 26785470
Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
Fraser LH, Pärtel M, Pither J, Jentsch A, Sternberg M, Zobel M. Fraser LH, et al. Science. 2015 Dec 4;350(6265):1177. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4874. Science. 2015. PMID: 26785471
Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
Tredennick AT, Adler PB, Grace JB, Harpole WS, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Anderson TM, Bakker JD, Biederman LA, Brown CS, Buckley YM, Chu C, Collins SL, Crawley MJ, Fay PA, Firn J, Gruner DS, Hagenah N, Hautier Y, Hector A, Hillebrand H, Kirkman K, Knops JM, Laungani R, Lind EM, MacDougall AS, McCulley RL, Mitchell CE, Moore JL, Morgan JW, Orrock JL, Peri PL, Prober SM, Risch AC, Schütz M, Speziale KL, Standish RJ, Sullivan LL, Wardle GM, Williams RJ, Yang LH. Tredennick AT, et al. Science. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):457. doi: 10.1126/science.aad6236. Science. 2016. PMID: 26823418
Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
Pither J, Fraser LH, Jentsch A, Sternberg M, Zobel M, Cahill J, Beierkuhnlein C, Bartha S, Bennett JA, Boldgiv B, Brown LR, Cabido M, Campetella G, Carlyle CN, Chelli S, Csergő AM, Diaz S, Enrico L, Ensing D, Fidelis A, Garris HW, Henry HA, Höhn M, Klironomos J, Koorem K, Lawrence-Lodge R, Manning P, Mitchell RJ, Moora M, Pillar VD, Stotz GC, Sugiyama S, Szentes S, Tungalag R, Undrakhbold S, Wellstein C, Zupo T. Pither J, et al. Science. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):457. doi: 10.1126/science.aad8019. Science. 2016. PMID: 26823419

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