Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
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Fraser et al. (Reports, 17 July 2015, p. 302) report that a hump-backed model describes the worldwide relationship between productivity and plant species richness in grassland communities. We reanalyze their data from a larger-scale perspective, using local species pool. This influences richness far more strongly than productivity, and, when this is taken into account, the hump-backed richness-productivity relationship disappears.
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species richness ' ' Comment on ' ' Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant
Fraser et al. (Reports, 17 July 2015, p. 302) report that a hump-backed model describes the worldwide relationship between productivity and plant species richness in grassland communities. We reanalyze their data from a larger-scale perspective, using local species pool. This influences richness far more strongly than productivity, and, when this is taken into account, the hump-backed richness-...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science
دوره 351 6272 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015