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Comment
. 2015 Dec 4;350(6265):1177.
doi: 10.1126/science.aad4874.

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

Lauchlan H Fraser  1 , Meelis Pärtel  2 , Jason Pither  3 , Anke Jentsch  4 , Marcelo Sternberg  5 , Martin Zobel  2
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Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

Lauchlan H Fraser et al. Science. .
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Abstract

Laanisto and Hutchings claim that the local species pool is a more important predictor of local plant species richness than biomass and that when the species pool is considered, there is no hump-backed relationship between biomass and richness. However, we show that by calculating a more appropriate measure of species pool, community completeness, both regional and local processes shape local richness.

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  • Plant ecology. Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness.
    Fraser LH, Pither J, Jentsch A, Sternberg M, Zobel M, Askarizadeh D, Bartha S, Beierkuhnlein C, Bennett JA, Bittel A, Boldgiv B, Boldrini II, Bork E, Brown L, Cabido M, Cahill J, Carlyle CN, Campetella G, Chelli S, Cohen O, Csergo AM, Díaz S, Enrico L, Ensing D, Fidelis A, Fridley JD, Foster B, Garris H, Goheen JR, Henry HA, Hohn M, Jouri MH, Klironomos J, Koorem K, Lawrence-Lodge R, Long R, Manning P, Mitchell R, Moora M, Müller SC, Nabinger C, Naseri K, Overbeck GE, Palmer TM, Parsons S, Pesek M, Pillar VD, Pringle RM, Roccaforte K, Schmidt A, Shang Z, Stahlmann R, Stotz GC, Sugiyama S, Szentes S, Thompson D, Tungalag R, Undrakhbold S, van Rooyen M, Wellstein C, Wilson JB, Zupo T. Fraser LH, et al. Science. 2015 Jul 17;349(6245):302-5. doi: 10.1126/science.aab3916. Science. 2015. PMID: 26185249
  • 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

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