Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

By P. Adler, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, H. Hillebrand, Y. Hautier, Andy Hector, W. Stanley Harpole, Lydia R. O’Halloran, J. Grace, T. M. Anderson and 48 more. Science, 2011

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Uses and misuses of meta‐analysis in plant ecology (2014, methodology): “Therefore, to be conservative, ideally such large-scale meta-analyses should be used as a guide for the future larger-scale experimental or comparative primary studies (e.g. Adler et al. 2011; Moles et al. 2011).”
Scale‐dependent relationships between tree species richness and ecosystem function in forests (2013, background): “Although the hump-shaped productivity-richness pattern has a long history of 181 theoretical and empirical support, its general applicability remains a matter of debate 182 (Whittaker 2010; Adler et al. 2011; Fridley et al. 2012).”
Origins of global mountain plant biodiversity: Testing the ‘mountain‐geobiodiversity hypothesis’ (2019, background): “In previous studies, both NPP and elevation range were shown to ex‐ hibit a positive relationship with plant species diversity at continental to global scales (Gillman et al., 2015, but see Adler et al., 2011).”
Disturbance, productivity, and species diversity: empiricism vs. logic in ecological theory (2014, background): “Adler et al. (2011) evaluated the IPH with data from a global sampling network and concluded that ‘‘productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness,’’ on the basis of the empirical failure of their data to match the predicted patterns.”
Nutrient enrichment, biodiversity loss, and consequent declines in ecosystem productivity (2013, background): “In contrast, many previous observational studies (38) have focused on how diversity and productivity covary across space within time.”
Mechanisms shaping plant biomass and species richness: plant strategies and litter effect in alkali and loess grasslands (2013, result): “…scores (including litter layer) detected in this study ranged from 60 g m 2 up to 2350 g m 2, which is in line with some other studies that investigated a long biomass (standing crop + litter layer) gradient in grasslands (ca. 100–2600 g m 2, Al-Mufti et al. 1977; 130–1850 g m 2, Lamb 2008).”
Meta-analysis and the science of research synthesis (2018, neutral): “For example, a recent paper on species richness in Science used a variant of vote counting methods 70 .”
The priority of prediction in ecological understanding (2017, background): “We provide suggestions for raising the status of prediction in ecology and discuss important questions that will need to be addressed to accomplish this.”
Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments (2014, neutral): “2013) and diversity and productivity relationships (Adler et al. 2011; Grace et al. 2012).”
Size asymmetry of resource competition and the structure of plant communities (2016, background): “…of soil resources (e.g. Al-Mufti et al. 1977; Huston 1994; Rajaniemi 2003; Laliberte et al. 2013; Borer et al. 2014; Fraser et al. 2015; but see, Adler et al. 2011) and a shift in species composition from relatively small and slowgrowing species to fast-growing species of larger size (e.g.…”
Forest productivity increases with evenness, species richness and trait variation: a global meta‐analysis (2012, background): “This contrasts markedly with a recent paper showing no relationship between productivity and species richness in 48 herbaceous sites (Adler et al. 2011).”
Direct and productivity‐mediated indirect effects of fertilization, mowing and grazing on grassland species richness (2012, background): “…data set on productivity and species richness of many sites around the world did not find a universal relationship at the withinsite scale, comparison across sites revealed that species richness declined at high levels of productivity, especially in anthropogenic grasslands (Adler et al. 2011).”