Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 25 May 2018 English Publisher:American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Journal:Science, volume 360 (issn: 0036-8075, eissn: 1095-9203,

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Authors: Lisa Hülsmann; Florian Hartig;

doi: 10.1126/science.aar2435

pmid: 29798852

Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”

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Abstract

LaManna et al . (Reports, 30 June 2017, p. 1389) claim that subadult trees are proportionally less common at high conspecific adult density (CNDD) and that this effect increases toward the tropics and for rare species. We show that the CNDD-abundance correlation may have arisen from a methodological artifact and that a range of processes can explain the reported latitudinal pattern.

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Keywords

Population Density, Biodiversity, Ecosystem, Trees

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