Comentario a "La productividad es un pobre predictor de la riqueza de las especies vegetales"

Jason D Fridley1, J Philip Grime, Michael A Huston

  • 1Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA. fridley@syr.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 24, 2012
PubMed
Resumen

El reanálisis de los datos de diversidad vegetal revela que el modelo respaldado por jorobas (HBM) es fuertemente apoyado cuando se incluyen sitios de alta productividad, basura y antropogénicos. Las conclusiones anteriores de relaciones débiles se debieron a limitaciones analíticas.

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