Response to comments on "productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness"

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6075, 2012, Pages

  Grace, James B ^a   Adler, Peter B ^b   Seabloom, Eric W ^c   Borer, Elizabeth T ^c   Hillebrand, Helmut ^d   Hautier, Yann ^e   Hector, Andy ^e,f   Harpole, W Stanley ^g   O'Halloran, Lydia R ^h   Anderson, T Michael ⁱ   Bakker, Jonathan D ^j   Brown, Cynthia S ^k   Buckley, Yvonne M ^l   Collins, Scott L ^m   Cottingham, Kathryn L ⁿ   Crawley, Michael J ^o   Damschen, Ellen I ^p   Davies, Kendi F ^q   DeCrappeo, Nicole M ^r   Fay, Philip A ^s   Firn, Jennifer ^t   Gruner, Daniel S ^u   Hagenah, Nicole ^v,w   Jin, Virginia L ^x   Kirkman, Kevin P ^v   Knops, Johannes M H ^y   La Pierre, Kimberly J ^w   Lambrinos, John G ^h   Melbourne, Brett A ^q   Mitchell, Charles E ^z   Moore, Joslin L ^aa   Morgan, John W ^ab   Orrock, John L ^p   Prober, Suzanne M ^ac   Stevens, Carly J ^ad,ae   Wragg, Peter D ^c   Yang, Louie H ^af   more..

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^k Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

ⁿ Dartmouth College   (United States)

^o IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^r FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^s AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^t QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^u Bldg 142   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^w YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x USDA Agricultural Research Service Lincoln Nebraska   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^ab LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^ac CSIRO   (Australia)

^ad OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^ae LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^af UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; NOTE; PLANT LITTER; PLANT SPECIES RICHNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84863380383     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1214939     Document Type: Note

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