Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness

Science

Volumn 349, Issue 6245, 2015, Pages 302-305

  Fraser, Lauchlan H ^a   Pither, Jason ^b   Jentsch, Anke ^c   Sternberg, Marcelo ^d   Zobel, Martin ^e   Askarizadeh, Diana ^f   Bartha, Sandor ^g,h   Beierkuhnlein, Carl ^c   Bennett, Jonathan A ⁱ   Bittel, Alex ^j   Boldgiv, Bazartseren ^k   Boldrini, Ilsi I ^l   Bork, Edward ⁱ   Brown, Leslie ^m   Cabido, Marcelo ⁿ   Cahill, James ⁱ   Carlyle, Cameron N ⁱ   Campetella, Giandiego ^o   Chelli, Stefano ^o   Cohen, Ofer ^d   Csergo, Anna Maria ^p   Díaz, Sandra ⁿ   Enrico, Lucas ⁿ   Ensing, David ^b   Fidelis, Alessandra ^q   Fridley, Jason D ^r   Foster, Bryan ^j   Garris, Heath ^s   Goheen, Jacob R ^t   Henry, Hugh A L ^u   Hohn, Maria ^v   Jouri, Mohammad Hassan ^w   Klironomos, John ^b   Koorem, Kadri ^e   Lawrence Lodge, Rachael ^x   Long, Ruijun ^y   Manning, Pete ^z   Mitchell, Randall ^s   Moora, Mari ^e   Müller, Sandra C ^l   Nabinger, Carlos ^l   Naseri, Kamal ^aa   Overbeck, Gerhard E ^l   Palmer, Todd M ^ab   Parsons, Sheena ^j   Pesek, Mari ^j   Pillar, Valério D ^l   Pringle, Robert M ^ac   Roccaforte, Kathy ^j   Schmidt, Amanda ^a   Shang, Zhanhuan ^y   Stahlmann, Reinhold ^c   Stotz, Gisela C ⁱ   Sugiyama, Shu Ichi ^ad   Szentes, Szilárd ^ae   Thompson, Don ^af   Tungalag, Radnaakhand ^k   Undrakhbold, Sainbileg ^k   Van Rooyen, Margaretha ^ag   Wellstein, Camilla ^ah   Wilson, J Bastow ^x,ai   Zupo, Talita ^q   more..

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^g INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND BOTANY   (Hungary)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^k NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^l FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^m UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

ⁿ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^o UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^p TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^q SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^r SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^v Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation   (Hungary)

^w ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^x UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^y LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^z UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^aa FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^ac PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^ae SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^af LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^ah FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^ai LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; GRAIN; GRASSLAND; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT LITTER; PLANT PRODUCTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; GRASSLAND; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84937914481     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aab3916     Document Type: Article

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