title: Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
abstract: Laanisto and Hutchings claim that the local species pool is a more important predictor of local plant species richness than biomass and that when the species pool is considered, there is no hump-backed relationship between biomass and richness. However, we show that by calculating a more appropriate measure of species pool, community completeness, both regional and local processes shape local richness.
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada. lfraser@tru.ca.
authors.forename: Lauchlan H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
authors.forename: Meelis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pärtel
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pither
authors.affiliation: Department of Disturbance Ecology, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
authors.forename: Anke
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jentsch
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sternberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zobel
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D065948:Grassland; D063245:Plant Development