[Technical Response] Response to Comment on “Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness”
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: Jason Pither, Lauchlan H. Fraser, Anke Jentsch, Marcelo Sternberg, Martin Zobel, James Cahill, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Sándor Bartha, Jonathan A. Bennett, Bazartseren Boldgiv, Leslie R. Brown, Marcelo Cabido, Giandiego Campetella, Cameron N. Carlyle, Stefano Chelli, Anna Mária Csergő, Sandra Diaz, Lucas Enrico, David Ensing, Alessandra Fidelis, Heath W. Garris, Hugh A. L. Henry, Maria Höhn, John Klironomos, Kadri Koorem, Rachael Lawrence-Lodge, Peter Manning, Randall J. Mitchell, Mari Moora, Valério D. Pillar, Gisela C. Stotz, Shu-ichi Sugiyama, Szilárd Szentes, Radnaakhand Tungalag, Sainbileg Undrakhbold, Camilla Wellstein, Talita Zupo