Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

The productivity-biodiversity relationship varies across diversity dimensions

  • Philipp Brun,
  • Niklaus E. Zimmermann,
  • Catherine H. Graham,
  • Sébastien Lavergne,
  • Loïc Pellissier,
  • Tamara Münkemüller,
  • Wilfried Thuiller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13678-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The relationships between ecosystem productivity and plant diversity are complex. Here, the authors show that sites with high productivity typically have reduced species diversity but high functional and phylogenetic diversity, potentially owing to the creation of additional niche space.