Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness.

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Published in Science on September 23, 2011

Authors

Peter B Adler1, Eric W Seabloom, Elizabeth T Borer, Helmut Hillebrand, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, W Stanley Harpole, Lydia R O'Halloran, James B Grace, T Michael Anderson, Jonathan D Bakker, Lori A Biederman, Cynthia S Brown, Yvonne M Buckley, Laura B Calabrese, Cheng-Jin Chu, Elsa E Cleland, Scott L Collins, Kathryn L Cottingham, Michael J Crawley, Ellen I Damschen, Kendi F Davies, Nicole M DeCrappeo, Philip A Fay, Jennifer Firn, Paul Frater, Eve I Gasarch, Daniel S Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Hope Humphries, Virginia L Jin, Adam D Kay, Kevin P Kirkman, Julia A Klein, Johannes M H Knops, Kimberly J La Pierre, John G Lambrinos, Wei Li, Andrew S MacDougall, Rebecca L McCulley, Brett A Melbourne, Charles E Mitchell, Joslin L Moore, John W Morgan, Brent Mortensen, John L Orrock, Suzanne M Prober, David A Pyke, Anita C Risch, Martin Schuetz, Melinda D Smith, Carly J Stevens, Lauren L Sullivan, Gang Wang, Peter D Wragg, Justin P Wright, Louie H Yang

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Wildland Resources and the Ecology Center, Utah State University, 5230 Old Main, Logan, UT 84322, USA. peter.adler@usu.edu

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