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

Jason Pither¹, Lauchlan H Fraser², Anke Jentsch³, Marcelo Sternberg⁴, Martin Zobel⁵, James Cahill⁶, Carl Beierkuhnlein⁷, Sándor Bartha⁸, Jonathan A Bennett⁹, Bazartseren Boldgiv¹⁰, Leslie R Brown¹¹, Marcelo Cabido¹², Giandiego Campetella¹³, Cameron N Carlyle¹⁴, Stefano Chelli¹³, Anna Mária Csergő¹⁵, Sandra Diaz¹⁶, Lucas Enrico¹⁶, David Ensing¹⁷, Alessandra Fidelis¹⁸, Heath W Garris², Hugh A L Henry¹⁹, Maria Höhn²⁰, John Klironomos²¹, Kadri Koorem⁵, Rachael Lawrence-Lodge²², Peter Manning²³, Randall J Mitchell²⁴, Mari Moora⁵, Valério D Pillar²⁵, Gisela C Stotz⁶, Shu-ichi Sugiyama²⁶, Szilárd Szentes²⁷, Radnaakhand Tungalag¹⁰, Sainbileg Undrakhbold, Camilla Wellstein²⁸, Talita Zupo¹⁸

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¹ Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada. jason.pither@ubc.ca.
² Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Disturbance Ecology, BayCEER, University 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 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Department of Biogeography, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁸ Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary. School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
⁹ Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁰ Ecology Group, Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
¹¹ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa.
¹² Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
¹³ School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
¹⁵ School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁶ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
¹⁷ Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁸ Departamento de Botânica, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
¹⁹ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
²⁰ Department of Botany, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
²¹ Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
²² Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
²³ Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA.
²⁵ Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²⁶ Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan.
²⁷ Institute of Plant Production, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary.
²⁸ Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.

PMID: 26823419
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8019

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

Jason Pither et al. Science. 2016.

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. 2016 Jan 29;351(6272):457.

doi: 10.1126/science.aad8019.

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¹ Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada. jason.pither@ubc.ca.
² Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
³ Department of Disturbance Ecology, BayCEER, University 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 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
⁷ Department of Biogeography, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
⁸ Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary. School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
⁹ Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁰ Ecology Group, Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
¹¹ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa.
¹² Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
¹³ School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
¹⁴ Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
¹⁵ School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁶ Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
¹⁷ Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁸ Departamento de Botânica, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
¹⁹ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
²⁰ Department of Botany, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
²¹ Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
²² Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
²³ Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany.
²⁴ Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA.
²⁵ Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²⁶ Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan.
²⁷ Institute of Plant Production, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary.
²⁸ Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.

PMID: 26823419
DOI: 10.1126/science.aad8019

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Tredennick et al. criticize one of our statistical analyses and emphasize the low explanatory power of models relating productivity to diversity. These criticisms do not detract from our key findings, including evidence consistent with the unimodal constraint relationship predicted by the humped-back model and evidence of scale sensitivities in the form and strength of the relationship.

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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".
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

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