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SUBMITTER: Fei S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303326 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fei Songlin S Jo Insu I Guo Qinfeng Q Wardle David A DA Fang Jingyun J Chen Anping A Oswalt Christopher M CM Brockerhoff Eckehard G EG
Nature communications 20181221 1
Understanding biodiversity-productivity relationships (BPRs) is of theoretical importance, and has important management implications. Most work on BPRs has focused on simple and/or experimentally assembled communities, and it is unclear how these observed BPRs can be extended to complex natural forest ecosystems. Using data from over 115,000 forest plots across the contiguous United States, we show that the bivariate BPRs are positive in dry climates and hump-shaped in mesic climates. When consi ...[more]