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Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”

Overview of attention for article published in Science, January 2016
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Title
Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”
Published in
Science, January 2016
DOI 10.1126/science.aad6236
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Authors

Andrew T Tredennick, Peter B Adler, James B Grace, W Stanley Harpole, Elizabeth T Borer, Eric W Seabloom, T Michael Anderson, Jonathan D Bakker, Lori A Biederman, Cynthia S Brown, Yvonne M Buckley, Chengjin Chu, Scott L Collins, Michael J Crawley, Philip A Fay, Jennifer Firn, Daniel S Gruner, Nicole Hagenah, Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Helmut Hillebrand, Kevin Kirkman, Johannes M H Knops, Ramesh Laungani, Eric M Lind, Andrew S MacDougall, Rebecca L McCulley, Charles E Mitchell, Joslin L Moore, John W Morgan, John L Orrock, Pablo L Peri, Suzanne M Prober, Anita C Risch, Martin Schütz, Karina L Speziale, Rachel J Standish, Lauren L Sullivan, Glenda M Wardle, Ryan J Williams, Louie H Yang

Abstract

Fraser et al. (Reports, 17 July 2015, p. 302) report a unimodal relationship between productivity and species richness at regional and global scales, which they contrast with the results of Adler et al. (Reports, 23 September 2011, p. 1750). However, both data sets, when analyzed correctly, show clearly and consistently that productivity is a poor predictor of local species richness.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 2 2%
United Kingdom 1 1%
Austria 1 1%
South Africa 1 1%
Unknown 88 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 27 29%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 16%
Professor 10 11%
Other 6 6%
Student > Master 6 6%
Other 15 16%
Unknown 14 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 40 43%
Environmental Science 20 22%
Computer Science 3 3%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 2 2%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Other 4 4%
Unknown 23 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 March 2016.
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#3,728,525
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Outputs from Science
#36,184
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#65,501
of 398,782 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#661
of 1,043 outputs
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