Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”

Joseph A. LaManna; Scott A. Mangan; Alfonso Alonso; Norman A. Bourg; Warren Y. Brockelman; Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin; Li Wan Chang; Jyh Min Chiang; George B. Chuyong; Keith Clay; Susan Cordell; Stuart J. Davies; Tucker J. Furniss; Christian P. Giardina; I. A.U. Nimal Gunatilleke; C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke; Fangliang He; Robert W. Howe; Stephen P. Hubbell; Chang Fu Hsieh; Faith M. Inman-Narahari; David Janík; Daniel J. Johnson; David Kenfack; Lisa Korte; Kamil Král; Andrew J. Larson; James A. Lutz; Sean M. McMahon; William J. McShea; Hervé R. Memiaghe; Anuttara Nathalang; Vojtech Novotny; Perry S. Ong; David A. Orwig; Rebecca Ostertag; Geoffrey G. Parker; Richard P. Phillips; Lawren Sack; I. Fang Sun; J. Sebastián Tello; Duncan W. Thomas; Benjamin L. Turner; Dilys M. Vela Díaz; Tomáš Vrška; George D. Weiblen; Amy Wolf; Sandra Ya; Jonathan A. Myers

doi:10.1126/science.aar3824

Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”

Joseph A. LaManna
, Scott A. Mangan
, Alfonso Alonso
, Norman A. Bourg
, Warren Y. Brockelman
, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin
, Li Wan Chang
, Jyh Min Chiang
, George B. Chuyong
, Keith Clay
, Susan Cordell
, Stuart J. Davies
, Tucker J. Furniss
, Christian P. Giardina
, I. A.U. Nimal Gunatilleke
, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke
, Fangliang He
, Robert W. Howe
, Stephen P. Hubbell
, Chang Fu Hsieh

Faith M. Inman-Narahari, David Janík, Daniel J. Johnson, David Kenfack, Lisa Korte, Kamil Král, Andrew J. Larson, James A. Lutz, Sean M. McMahon, William J. McShea, Hervé R. Memiaghe, Anuttara Nathalang, Vojtech Novotny, Perry S. Ong, David A. Orwig, Rebecca Ostertag, Geoffrey G. Parker, Richard P. Phillips, Lawren Sack, I. Fang Sun, J. Sebastián Tello, Duncan W. Thomas, Benjamin L. Turner, Dilys M. Vela Díaz, Tomáš Vrška, George D. Weiblen, Amy Wolf, Sandra Ya, Jonathan A. Myers

Forest Management

Washington University St. Louis
Smithsonian Institution
United States Geological Survey
National Science and Technology Development Agency Thailand
Mahidol University
Wildlife and Plant Conservation
Council of Agriculture Taiwan
Tunghai University
University of Buea
Indiana University Bloomington
United States Department of Agriculture
Utah State University
University of Peradeniya
Sun Yat-Sen University
University of Alberta
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
University of California at Los Angeles
National Taiwan University
Silva Tarouca Research Institute
CNRS
New Guinea Binatang Research Centre
Czech Academy of Sciences
University of South Bohemia
University of the Philippines
Harvard University
University of Hawai'i at Hilo
National Dong Hwa University
Missouri Botanical Garden
Washington State University Vancouver
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Far Eastern University

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	eaar3824
Journal	Science
Volume	360
Issue number	6391
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar3824
State	Published - May 25 2018

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We thank an anonymous reviewer for suggesting the distance-weighted approach. We also thank everyone involved in the collection of the vast quantity of data in the CTFS-ForestGEO network; see table S20 in our original paper for site-specific acknowledgments. Supported by NSF grant DEB-1545761 (S.J.D.), NSF grants DEB-1256788 and DEB-1557094 (J.A.M.), NSF grant DEB-1257989 (S.A.M.), and the Tyson Research Center. We declare no conflicts of interest. The data and R code for analyses are available at the Smithsonian Institution’s ForestGEO database portal: https://forestgeo.si.edu/explore-data and https:// forestgeo.si.edu/plant-diversity-increases-strength-negative-density-dependence-global-scale. We thank an anonymous reviewer for suggesting the distance-weighted approach. We also thank everyone involved in the collection of the vast quantity of data in the CTFS-ForestGEO network; see table S20 in our original paper for site-specific acknowledgments. Supported by NSF grant DEB-1545761 (S.J.D.), NSF grants DEB-1256788 and DEB-1557094 (J.A.M.), NSF grant DEB-1257989 (S.A.M.), and the Tyson Research Center. We declare no conflicts of interest. The data and R code for analyses are available at the Smithsonian Institution’s ForestGEO database portal: https://forestgeo.si.edu/explore-data and https://forestgeo.si.edu/plant-diversity-increases-strength-negative-density-dependence-global-scale.

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DEB-1557094, DEB-1256788, DEB-1257989, 1237491, DEB-1545761

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LaManna, J. A., Mangan, S. A., Alonso, A., Bourg, N. A., Brockelman, W. Y., Bunyavejchewin, S., Chang, L. W., Chiang, J. M., Chuyong, G. B., Clay, K., Cordell, S., Davies, S. J., Furniss, T. J., Giardina, C. P., Nimal Gunatilleke, I. A. U., Savitri Gunatilleke, C. V., He, F., Howe, R. W., Hubbell, S. P., ... Myers, J. A. (2018). Response to Comment on “Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale”. Science, 360(6391), Article eaar3824. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aar3824

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