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Response to Comment on 'Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale'
- Source :
- Science. 360
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018.
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Abstract
- Hülsmann and Hartig suggest that ecological mechanisms other than specialized natural enemies or intraspecific competition contribute to our estimates of conspecific negative density dependence (CNDD). To address their concern, we show that our results are not the result of a methodological artifact and present a null-model analysis that demonstrates that our original findings—(i) stronger CNDD at tropical relative to temperate latitudes and (ii) a latitudinal shift in the relationship between CNDD and species abundance—persist even after controlling for other processes that might influence spatial relationships between adults and recruits.
- Subjects :
- Population Density
Alternative methods
0106 biological sciences
Multidisciplinary
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Scale (descriptive set theory)
Biodiversity
Atmospheric sciences
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Trees
Density dependence
Seedlings
Relative species abundance
Ecosystem
Mathematics
Plant diversity
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959203 and 00368075
- Volume :
- 360
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....82f6eb36c8d0f087aac718f83c6e11b6