title: Response to Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness".
abstract: Tredennick et al. criticize one of our statistical analyses and emphasize the low explanatory power of models relating productivity to diversity. These criticisms do not detract from our key findings, including evidence consistent with the unimodal constraint relationship predicted by the humped-back model and evidence of scale sensitivities in the form and strength of the relationship.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada. jason.pither@ubc.ca.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pither
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Lauchlan H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.affiliation: Department of Disturbance Ecology, BayCEER, 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
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cahill
authors.affiliation: Department of Biogeography, Bayreuth Center of Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER), University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany.
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beierkuhnlein
authors.affiliation: Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary. School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
authors.forename: Sándor
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bartha
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Jonathan A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Bennett
authors.affiliation: Ecology Group, Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
authors.forename: Bazartseren
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Boldgiv
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, Florida, South Africa.
authors.forename: Leslie R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cabido
authors.affiliation: School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
authors.forename: Giandiego
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Campetella
authors.affiliation: Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: Cameron N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Carlyle
authors.affiliation: School of Biosciences and Veterinary Medicine, Plant Diversity and Ecosystems Management Unit, University of Camerino, Camerino, Italy.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chelli
authors.affiliation: School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Anna Mária
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Csergő
authors.affiliation: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.affiliation: Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (IMBIV), National Scientific and Technical Research Council and Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Enrico
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ensing
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Botânica, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fidelis
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: Heath W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Garris
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Hugh A L
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Faculty of Horticultural Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Höhn
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Klironomos
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
authors.forename: Kadri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Koorem
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Rachael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lawrence-Lodge
authors.affiliation: Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Germany.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manning
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Randall J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
authors.forename: Mari
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moora
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
authors.forename: Valério D
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Pillar
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Gisela C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Stotz
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan.
authors.forename: Shu-ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugiyama
authors.affiliation: Institute of Plant Production, Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary.
authors.forename: Szilárd
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Szentes
authors.affiliation: Ecology Group, Department of Biology, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
authors.forename: Radnaakhand
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tungalag
authors.forename: Sainbileg
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Undrakhbold
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy.
authors.forename: Camilla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wellstein
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Botânica, UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Talita
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zupo
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D065948:Grassland; D063245:Plant Development