Response to Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”
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.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.aad4874
- Bibcode:
- 2015Sci...350.1177F
- Keywords:
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- ECOLOGY