Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

被引:475
作者
Adler, Peter B. [1 ,2 ]
Seabloom, Eric W. [3 ]
Borer, Elizabeth T. [3 ]
Hillebrand, Helmut [4 ]
Hautier, Yann [5 ]
Hector, Andy [5 ]
Harpole, W. Stanley [6 ]
O'Halloran, Lydia R. [7 ]
Grace, James B. [8 ]
Anderson, T. Michael [9 ]
Bakker, Jonathan D. [10 ]
Biederman, Lori A. [6 ]
Brown, Cynthia S. [11 ]
Buckley, Yvonne M. [12 ]
Calabrese, Laura B. [13 ]
Chu, Cheng-Jin [14 ]
Cleland, Elsa E. [15 ]
Collins, Scott L. [12 ]
Cottingham, Kathryn L. [16 ]
Crawley, Michael J. [17 ]
Damschen, Ellen I. [18 ]
Davies, Kendi F. [19 ]
DeCrappeo, Nicole M. [20 ]
Fay, Philip A. [21 ]
Firn, Jennifer [22 ]
Frater, Paul [6 ]
Gasarch, Eve I. [19 ]
Gruner, Daniel S. [23 ]
Hagenah, Nicole [24 ,25 ]
Lambers, Janneke Hille Ris [26 ]
Humphries, Hope [19 ]
Jin, Virginia L. [27 ]
Kay, Adam D. [28 ]
Kirkman, Kevin P. [24 ]
Klein, Julia A. [29 ]
Knops, Johannes M. H. [30 ]
La Pierre, Kimberly J. [24 ]
Lambrinos, John G. [31 ]
Li, Wei [6 ]
MacDougall, Andrew S. [32 ]
McCulley, Rebecca L. [33 ]
Melbourne, Brett A. [19 ]
Mitchell, Charles E. [34 ]
Moore, Joslin L. [35 ]
Morgan, John W. [36 ]
Mortensen, Brent [6 ]
Orrock, John L. [18 ]
Prober, Suzanne M. [37 ]
Pyke, David A. [20 ]
Risch, Anita C. [38 ]
机构
[1] Utah State Univ, Dept Wildland Resources, Logan, UT 84322 USA
[2] Utah State Univ, Ctr Ecol, Logan, UT 84322 USA
[3] Univ Minnesota, Dept Ecol Evolut & Behav, St Paul, MN 55108 USA
[4] Carl von Ossietzky Univ Oldenburg, Inst Chem & Biol Marine Environm, D-26381 Wilhelmshaven, Germany
[5] Univ Zurich, Inst Evolutionary Biol & Environm Studies, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
[6] Iowa State Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Organismal Biol, Ames, IA 50011 USA
[7] Oregon State Univ, Dept Zool, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[8] US Geol Survey, Natl Wetlands Res Ctr, Lafayette, LA 70506 USA
[9] Wake Forest Univ, Dept Biol, Reynolda Stn 7325, Winston Salem, NC 27109 USA
[10] Univ Washington, Sch Forest Resources, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[11] Colorado State Univ, Dept Bioagr Sci & Pest Management, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[12] Univ Queensland, Sch Biol Sci, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
[13] Univ New Mexico, Dept Biol, Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA
[14] Lanzhou Univ, Minist Educ, Key Lab Arid & Grassland Ecol, Lanzhou 730000, Gansu, Peoples R China
[15] Univ Calif San Diego, Ecol Behav & Evolut Sect, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[16] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Biol Sci, Gilman Lab 6044, Hanover, NH 03755 USA
[17] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Dept Biol Sci, Ascot SL5 7PY, Berks, England
[18] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Zool, Madison, WI 53704 USA
[19] Univ Colorado, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[20] US Geol Survey, Forest & Rangeland Ecosyst Sci Ctr, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[21] USDA ARS, Grassland Soil & Water Res Lab, Temple, TX 76502 USA
[22] Queensland Univ Technol, Sch Biogeosci, Brisbane, Qld 4001, Australia
[23] Univ Maryland, Dept Entomol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[24] Univ KwaZulu Natal, Sch Biol & Conservat Sci, ZA-3209 Kwa Zulu, South Africa
[25] Yale Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[26] Univ Washington, Dept Biol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[27] USDA ARS, Agroecosyst Management Res Unit, Lincoln, NE 68583 USA
[28] Univ St Thomas, Dept Biol, St Paul, MN 55105 USA
[29] Colorado State Univ, Nat Resource Ecol Lab, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[30] Univ Nebraska, Sch Biol Sci, Lincoln, NE 68588 USA
[31] Oregon State Univ, Dept Hort, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[32] Univ Guelph, Dept Integrat Biol, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
[33] Univ Kentucky, Dept Plant & Soil Sci, Lexington, KY 40546 USA
[34] Univ N Carolina, Dept Biol, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA
[35] Univ Melbourne, Sch Bot, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
[36] La Trobe Univ, Dept Bot, Bundoora, Vic 3086, Australia
[37] Commonwealth Sci & Ind Res Org Ecosyst Sci, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia
[38] Swiss Fed Inst Forest Snow & Landscape Res, CH-8903 Birmensdorf ZH, Switzerland
[39] Open Univ, Dept Life Sci, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, Bucks, England
[40] Univ Lancaster, Lancaster Environm Ctr, Lancaster LA1 4YQ, England
[41] Duke Univ, Dept Biol, Durham, NC 27708 USA
[42] Univ Calif Davis, Dept Entomol, Davis, CA 95616 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
DIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY; HYPOTHESIS;
D O I
10.1126/science.1204498
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
For more than 30 years, the relationship between net primary productivity and species richness has generated intense debate in ecology about the processes regulating local diversity. The original view, which is still widely accepted, holds that the relationship is hump-shaped, with richness first rising and then declining with increasing productivity. Although recent meta-analyses questioned the generality of hump-shaped patterns, these syntheses have been criticized for failing to account for methodological differences among studies. We addressed such concerns by conducting standardized sampling in 48 herbaceous-dominated plant communities on five continents. We found no clear relationship between productivity and fine-scale (meters(-2)) richness within sites, within regions, or across the globe. Ecologists should focus on fresh, mechanistic approaches to understanding the multivariate links between productivity and richness.
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页码:1750 / 1753
页数:4
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