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 Cheng-Jin Chu Scott L. Collins Michael J. Crawley Philip A. Fay Jennifer Firn Daniel S. Gruner Nicole Hagenah Yann Hautier Andy Hector Helmut Hillebrand Kevin P. 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 Schuetz Karina L. Speziale Rachel J. Standish Lauren L. Sullivan Glenda M. Wardle Ryan J. Williams Louie H. Yang Andrew T. Tredennick 2016 <p>Fraser <i>et al</i>. (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 <i>et al</i>. (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.</p> application/pdf 10.1126/science.aad6236 en American Association for the Advancement of Science Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness" article