WHAT IS THE OBSERVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIES RICHNESS AND PRODUCTIVITY

By G. Mittelbach, Christopher F. Steiner, S. Scheiner, K. Gross, H. Reynolds, R. Waide, M. Willig, S. Dodson, L. Gough. 2001

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The mid‐domain effect applied to elevational gradients: species richness of small mammals in Costa Rica (2004, background): “…Publishing Ltd 25 Productivity gradients frequently demonstrate humpshaped relationships in species richness, revealing peaks in richness at intermediate productivity levels along a gradient from low to high productivity (Rosenzweig, 1992, 1995; Waide et al., 1999; Mittelbach et al., 2001).”
Conservation Biogeography: assessment and prospect (2005, background): “Often the term scale, or spatial scale, is used to refer to both of these quite distinct properties of study systems, but they are not equivalent or substitutable (Palmer & White, 1994; Nekola & White, 1999; Whittaker et al. , 2001; Whittaker & Heegaard, 2003).”
Climate change effects on plant biomass alter dominance patterns and community evenness in an experimental old‐field ecosystem (2010, background): “Previous work, demonstrating that when climate change alleviates limits to plant productivity it reduces community evenness, corroborates this hypothesis (e.g., Leadley et al., 1999; but see Mittelbach et al., 2001; Niklaus et al., 2001).”
Carbon storage in tropical forests correlates with taxonomic diversity and functional dominance on a global scale (2014, background): “It has been suggested that variation in C storage and productivity increases with the extent of a study, and this increased variation can result in a larger overall response to species richness (Mittelbach et al., 2001).”
A comprehensive framework for global patterns in biodiversity (2004, background): “…of the total productivity of the habitat to support individuals, hence species (the productivity hypothesis: Wright et al. 1993; Huston 1994; Mittelbach et al. 2001) or the physiological tolerance of organisms for low energy environments (the ambient energy hypothesis: Pianka 1966; Turner…”
Species–energy relationships and habitat complexity in bird communities (2004, background): “Primary productivity, a measure of the energy entering an ecosystem, has been a focus of richness studies, however the exact form of the productivity–richness relationship has been debated (e.g. Ricklefs & Schluter 1993; Mittelbach et al. 2001; Chase & Leibold 2002; Whittaker & Heegaard 2003).”
On some hypotheses of diversity of animal life at great depths on the sea floor (2015, background): “The unimodal relationship also appears to be more common in studies that compare diversity among community types as opposed to holding community types constant (Mittelbach et al. 2001).”
On the specification of structural equation models for ecological systems. (2010, background): “Both theory and experience tell us that the relationships among biomass, light, and species richness are not necessarily linear and may be unimodal (Grime 1973, Mittelbach et al. 2001, Scheiner and Willig 2005).”
Scleractinian corals as facilitators for other invertebrates on a Caribbean reef (2006, background): “, and in part because the factors affecting invertebrate diversity operate over regional scales (Cornell & Karlson 2000) rather than the local scales (i.e. <20 km, sensu Mittelbach et al. 2001) exploited here (2 km).”
Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: insights from aquatic systems (2004, background): “…functioning, rather than Accepted 16 September 2003 Copyright # OIKOS 2004 ISSN 0030-1299 OIKOS 104: 419 /422, 2004 OIKOS 104:3 (2004) 419 the reverse relationship of how ecosystem processes may affect species diversity, which has been the subject of recent reviews (Mittelbach et al. 2001).”
Contrasting Relationships between Precipitation and Species Richness in Space and Time (2007, background): “The traditional explanations for the effect of resource availability, or productivity, on diversity (Waide et al. 1999, Mittelbach et al. 2001) focus on short-term, local interactions involving population growth and resource competition.”
Do biotic interactions shape both sides of the humped-back model of species richness in plant communities? (2006, background): “Mittelbach et al. (2001, 2003) have shown that the humped-back shape observed at local and regional scales commonly disappears at a scale larger than a continent (see also Kikvidze et al. 2005).”
Scale dependence in the species-richness-productivity relationship: The role of species turnover (2004, methodology): “We consider scale dependence to occur if either the form or parameterization (with the exception of the y intercept) of the richness–productivity relationship changed significantly as focal scale increased (as in Waide et al. 1999, Gross et al. 2000, Mittelbach et al. 2001, Lyons and Willig 2002).”