Institute of Biology/Geobotany, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 06108 Halle (Saale), Germany.
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Science. 2019 Jan 11;363(6423). doi: 10.1126/science.aav9863.
Yang have raised criticism that the results reported by us would not be relevant for natural forests. We argue that productivity is positively related to species richness also in subtropical natural forests, and that both the species pools and the range of tree species richness used in our experiment are representative of many natural forests of this biome.
杨提出了批评，认为我们报告的结果与天然林无关。我们认为，生产力与亚热带天然林的物种丰富度也呈正相关，而且我们实验中使用的物种库和树种丰富度范围都代表了该生物群系的许多天然林。
