Ecological Archives E088-067-A1

Meelis Pärtel, Lauri Laanisto, and Martin Zobel. 2007. Contrasting plant productivity–diversity relationships across latitude: the role of evolutionary history. Ecology 88:1091–1097.

Appendix A (Table A1). A table providing the 163 published studies of the plant productivity–diversity relationship (including latitude, longitude, mean annual temperature, annual precipitation, method of productivity measurement, productivity range, and reference) used in this study. Productivity range as log(max) – log(min) is provided only when the productivity measure was standing biomass or annual precipitation.

Nr.	Lat.	Long.	Temp. (°C)	Prec. (mm)	Relation	Productivity measure	Range	Reference
1	45 N	10 E	13.0	732	Positive	Biomass growth		Adams and Woodward 1989
2	6 N	117 E	25.6	2910	Positive	Standing biomass	1.46	Aiba and Kitayama 1999
3	6 N	116 E	22.3	2987	Positive	Biomass growth		Aiba et al. 2005
4	53 N	1 W	9.2	654	None	Standing biomass	1.24	Al-Mufti et al. 1977
5	2 S	34 E	21.9	1092	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	0.25	Anderson et al. 2004
6	35 S	65 W	16.3	611	None	Annual precipitation	0.69	Barbour and Diaz 1973
7	35 N	115 W	17.5	160	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.59	Barbour and Diaz 1973
8	82 N	25 W	-17.3	0	Unimodal	Soil resources		Bay 1997
9	25 S	135 E	22.0	232	None	Soil resources		Beadle 1966
10	25 S	135 E	22.0	232	Positive	Soil resources		Beadle 1966
11	25 S	135 E	22.0	232	None	Soil resources		Beadle 1966
12	37 N	117 W	13.1	133	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	0.53	Beatley 1969
13	34 S	151 E	17.2	944	None	Soil resources		Blanche and Westoby 1995
14	30 S	25 E	16.1	387	Unimodal	Other		Bond 1983
15	22 S	135 E	23.3	368	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.95	Bowman 1996
16	47 N	8 E	9.1	1182	Unimodal	Standing biomass	0.30	Braschler et al. 2004
17	47 N	8 E	9.1	1182	Unimodal	Standing biomass	0.36	Braschler et al. 2004
18	37 N	116 W	11.7	137	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.79	Brown 1973
19	32 S	66 W	18.6	443	None	Annual precipitation	0.12	Cabido et al. 1997
20	35 N	110 E	10.9	623	None	Annual precipitation	0.26	Cao and Peters 1997
21	33 S	69 W	15.1	225	None	Annual precipitation	0.41	Cavagnaro 1988
22	33 N	107 W	14.5	168	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Chalcraft et al. 2004
23	39 N	96 W	12.9	861	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Chalcraft et al. 2004
24	45 N	73 W	5.6	1061	Positive	Other		Chambers 1987
25	43 N	85 W	8.6	810	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Chase and Leibold 2002
26	43 N	85 W	8.6	810	Positive	Biomass growth		Chase and Leibold 2002
27	4 N	77 W	25.4	3674	Positive	Annual precipitation	1.26	Clinebell et al. 1995
28	9 S	71 W	25.0	2083	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	1.23	Clinebell et al. 1995
29	7 S	52 W	24.7	2244	None	Annual precipitation	0.35	Clinebell et al. 1995
30	9 N	82 W	24.4	2705	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	0.40	Clinebell et al. 1995
31	30 S	20 E	16.1	387	None	Soil resources		Cowling 1990
32	35 N	107 W	12.4	185	None	Standing biomass	0.87	Cully and Cully 1989
33	32 N	35 E	18.8	572	None	Standing biomass		Danin 1976
34	45 N	76 W	6.1	890	None	Standing biomass	1.40	Day et al. 1988
35	38 N	100 W	12.8	542	None	Soil resources		Diamond and Smeins 1988
36	48 N	100 W	4.1	422	Unimodal	Soil resources		Dix and Smeins 1967
37	40 N	100 W	11.3	558	Unimodal	Other		Dodson et al. 2000
38	47 N	7 E	9.1	1139	None	Standing biomass	0.55	Dolt et al. 2004
39	1 S	71 W	25.3	324	Positive	Other		Duivenvoorden 1996
40	35 N	38 E	17.4	162	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	0.90	Ehrman and Cocks 1990
41	64 N	27 E	2.8	517	Unimodal	Soil resources		Eloranta 1986
42	62 N	27 E	3.7	577	Unimodal	Standing biomass		Eloranta 1995
43	35 N	120 W	14.7	320	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Fairbanks and McGwire 2004
44	20 S	147 E	23.7	878	Positive	Other		Fensham 1995
45	20 S	144 E	21.6	699	None	Annual precipitation	0.15	Fensham and Streimann 1997
46	5 S	143 E	25.1	3265	None	Other		Flenley 1969
47	5 S	143 E	25.1	3265	Positive	Other		Flenley 1969
48	33 N	105 W	15.2	266	Positive	Standing biomass	2.40	Forbes 2001
49	55 N	5 W	8.1	1048	None	Standing biomass	0.27	Forrest and Smith 1975
50	13 S	49 E	24.5	1545	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.69	Ganzhorn et al. 1997
51	37 N	6 W	15.9	1402	Unimodal	Standing biomass	2.00	Garcia et al. 1993
52	3 N	10 E	25.2	3431	None	Annual precipitation	0.66	Gentry 1988
53	11 N	86 W	26.8	1568	Positive	Other		Gillespie et al. 2000
54	42 N	75 W	7.2	1149	Positive	Other		Glenn-Lewin 1975
55	16 N	94 W	24.3	1168	Unimodal	Other		Gonazales-Espinosa et al. 2004
56	30 N	90 W	20.4	1522	Unimodal	Standing biomass		Gough et al. 1994
57	69 N	148 W	-12.1	89	None	Biomass growth		Gough et al. 2000
58	30 N	90 W	20.4	1522	None	Standing biomass	2.54	Grace and Pugesek 1997
59	32 N	109 W	17.2	168	Positive	Standing biomass	1.99	Guo and Berry 1998
60	32 N	109 W	17.2	168	Unimodal	Standing biomass		Guo and Berry 1998
61	32 N	109 W	17.2	168	Positive	Standing biomass	0.70	Guo and Berry 1998
62	22 S	69 W	7.2	49	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	2.85	Gutierrez et al. 1998
63	37 N	110 W	11.9	246	Positive	Annual precipitation		Harner and Harper 1976
64	19 N	96 W	26.1	1633	Positive	Standing biomass	1.44	Heitz and Hietz-Seifert 1995
65	45 N	93 W	6.8	745	Positive	Standing biomass	1.00	Hille Ris Lambers et al. 2004
66	31 S	23 E	16.3	202	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.23	Hoffman et al. 1994
67	37 N	121 W	15.7	384	None	Standing biomass	0.51	Hooper 1998
68	37 N	121 W	15.7	384	None	Biomass growth		Hooper and Vitousek 1997
69	27 S	135 E	21.5	186	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	1.13	Hughes et al. 1996
70	45 N	69 W	5.3	1247	None	Standing biomass	1.05	Hunter et al. 1986
71	10 N	84 W	24.1	3097	None	Standing biomass		Huston 1980
72	45 N	93 W	6.8	745	None	Soil resources		Inouye et al. 1987
73	61 N	21 E	4.4	508	Unimodal	Standing biomass	5.65	Jutila 1997
74	65 N	15 E	-0.8	663	Unimodal	Standing biomass	3.60	Kautsky and Kautsky 1989
75	36 N	118 W	10.1	186	None	Annual precipitation	0.27	Keeley 1992
76	40 N	76 W	11.4	1050	None	Annual precipitation	0.15	Keever 1973
77	31 N	84 W	19.3	1359	None	Standing biomass	0.17	Kirkman et al. 1998
78	37 S	145 E	14.3	621	Unimodal	Soil resources		Kirkpatrick and Bridle 1998
79	53 N	6 E	9.3	806	Unimodal	Standing biomass		Klinkhamer and de Jong 1985
80	39 N	96 W	12.9	861	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Knapp et al. 2002
81	26 N	128 E	20.5	2745	Positive	Biomass growth		Kubota et al. 2004
82	48 N	124 W	9.1	1508	None	Standing biomass	0.48	Kuramoto and Bliss 1970
83	32 N	35 E	18.8	572	Unimodal	Standing biomass	1.95	Kutiel and Danin 1987
84	32 N	35 E	18.8	572	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.75	Kutiel et al. 1995
85	52 N	117 W	-4.5	332	None	Soil resources		La Roi and Hnatiuk 1980
86	53 N	6 E	9.3	806	None	Soil resources		Laan 1979
87	42 N	85 W	9.1	876	Unimodal	Soil resources		Leibold 1999
88	34 S	18 E	16.6	427	Positive	Annual precipitation	1.08	Lindner 1991
89	30 N	84 W	20.4	1381	None	Standing biomass	3.66	Livingston 1984
90	48 N	68 W	2.0	1209	Positive	Soil resources		Loucks 1962
91	32 N	122 W	13.1	427	Unimodal	Biomass growth		McNaughton 1968
92	2 N	35 E	23.0	858	None	Standing biomass	1.13	McNaughton 1983
93	38 S	70 W	11.1	278	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	1.12	Meserve and Glanz 1978
94	30 N	83 W	20.6	1364	Unimodal	Soil resources		Monk 1965
95	45 N	77 W	5.8	881	None	Standing biomass		Moore and Keddy 1989
96	44 S	70 W	8.1	334	None	Annual precipitation	0.58	Mourelle and Ezcurra 1996
97	65 N	25 E	2.5	457	None	Standing biomass	1.83	Muotka and Virtanen 1995
98	65 N	25 E	2.5	457	Unimodal	Standing biomass	2.30	Muotka and Virtanen 1995
99	65 N	25 E	2.5	457	Unimodal	Standing biomass	1.65	Muotka and Virtanen 1995
100	47 N	8 E	9.1	1182	Unimodal	Other		Murphy 2002
101	46 N	74 W	4.6	1039	None	Soil resources		Nantel and Neumann 1992
102	40 N	102 W	10.8	475	None	Annual precipitation	0.18	Nicholson and Hulett 1969
103	67 N	18 E	-2.3	624	Unimodal	Other		Nilsson and Wilson 1991
104	65 N	15 E	-0.8	663	Unimodal	Other		Nilsson and Wilson 1991
105	5 N	6 E	26.4	2642	None	Biomass growth		Nwadiaro 1990
106	16 S	23 E	21.9	869	Positive	Annual precipitation	1.37	O’brien et al. 1998
107	3 N	38 E	23.0	638	Positive	Standing biomass	1.40	Oba et al. 2001
108	25 S	25 E	19.2	448	Positive	Annual precipitation	3.00	O'Brien 1993
109	44 N	120 W	6.8	320	None	Annual precipitation	0.53	Ohmann and Spies 1998
110	44 N	41 E	8.5	923	None	Biomass growth		Onipchenko et al. 1998
111	31 N	35 E	20.1	305	Positive	Standing biomass	0.90	Osem et al. 2002
112	28 N	17 W	16.9	846	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.60	Otto et al. 2001
113	24 N	83 E	25.0	1035	None	Standing biomass	0.57	Pandey and Singh 1991
114	11 S	71 W	25.4	1723	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.24	Phillips et al. 1994
115	40 N	117 W	7.8	117	None	Annual precipitation	1.02	Pianka 1967
116	57 N	135 W	3.8	1625	None	Biomass growth		Pollock et al. 1998
117	8 N	5 W	26.5	1116	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	0.32	Porembski et al. 1995
118	8 N	79 W	25.7	2196	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	0.13	Pyke et al. 2001
119	47 N	102 W	5.4	364	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Redmann 1975
120	35 N	120 W	14.7	320	Unimodal	Annual precipitation	1.76	Richerson and Lum 1980
121	35 N	97 W	16.6	886	Positive	Standing biomass		Risser and Rice 1971
122	19 N	67 W	24.3	1495	None	Standing biomass		Rodriguez and Stoner 1990
123	13 S	131 E	27.1	1521	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.42	Russell-Smith 1991
124	9 N	71 W	21.4	1421	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.51	Sarmiento 1983
125	45 N	82 W	5.9	778	Unimodal	Other		Schamp et al. 2003
126	45 N	90 W	5.3	805	None	Biomass growth		Scheiner and Jones 2002
127	5 S	35 E	20.6	739	None	Annual precipitation	0.11	Schmidt 1975
128	23 S	17 E	18.0	388	Positive	Annual precipitation	1.08	Schulze et al. 1996
129	41 N	106 W	5.3	269	Unimodal	Standing biomass	1.40	Scott and Billings 1964
130	47 N	72 W	2.1	1195	Positive	Standing biomass	1.80	Shipley et al. 1991
131	45 N	76 W	6.1	890	Unimodal	Standing biomass	2.84	Shipley et al. 1991
132	25 N	83 E	27.1	1108	Positive	Standing biomass	0.23	Singh and Misra 1969
133	53 N	2 W	8.1	1063	Unimodal	Soil resources		Stevens et al. 2004
134	0 N	73 W	25.4	2952	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.46	ter Steege et al. 2000
135	2 S	60 W	26.7	2093	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.20	ter Steege et al. 2000
136	4 S	50 W	25.5	2481	None	Annual precipitation	0.24	ter Steege et al. 2000
137	5 N	58 W	26.5	2553	Positive	Annual precipitation	0.43	ter Steege et al. 2000
138	0 S	40 E	29.0	255	Unimodal	Soil resources		Tieszen et al. 1979
139	19 N	100 W	13.2	719	None	Annual precipitation	0.48	Trejo and Dirzo 2002
140	38 N	21 E	16.6	953	Positive	Standing biomass		Troumbis and Memtsas 2000
141	0 S	40 E	29.0	255	None	Other		Uku and Mavuti 1994
142	5 S	145 E	25.7	3322	None	Standing biomass	0.40	Walker 1968
143	38 N	105 W	10.3	333	None	Standing biomass		Ward 1986
144	66 N	17 E	-1.8	586	Unimodal	Standing biomass	0.35	Wardle et al. 1997
145	54 N	23 E	6.6	583	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Wassen et al. 1990
146	45 N	91 W	5.6	814	Unimodal	Standing biomass	1.41	Weiher 2003
147	35 N	89 W	15.8	1365	Unimodal	Standing biomass	3.71	Weiher et al. 2004
148	50 N	60 W	1.3	1072	None	Soil resources		Wells 1996
149	52 N	5 E	9.5	795	Positive	Soil resources		Werger et al. 1983
150	39 N	124 W	12.4	693	None	Biomass growth		Westman and Whittaker 1975
151	50 N	2 E	9.8	767	Unimodal	Standing biomass	1.39	Wheeler and Giller 1982
152	50 N	2 W	10.5	800	Unimodal	Biomass growth		Wheeler and Shaw 1991
153	35 N	83 W	12.2	1510	None	Biomass growth		Whittaker 1966
154	32 N	111 W	18.4	151	None	Biomass growth		Whittaker and Niering 1975
155	41 N	72 W	10.6	1124	None	Biomass growth		Whittaker and Woodwell 1969
156	17 S	134 E	26.5	584	None	Annual precipitation	0.48	Williams et al. 1996
157	45 N	93 W	6.8	745	Unimodal	Standing biomass		Wilson and Keddy 1988
158	45 S	167 E	6.0	1546	None	Other		Wilson et al. 1996
159	45 N	64 W	6.6	1383	Unimodal	Standing biomass	3.61	Wisheu and Keddy 1989
160	45 N	64 W	6.6	1383	Unimodal	Standing biomass	3.16	Wisheu and Keddy 1989
161	31 N	35 E	20.2	164	Positive	Annual precipitation	1.05	Vogel et al. 1986
162	26 N	128 E	20.0	2745	Positive	Biomass growth		Yasuhiro et al. 2004
163	58 N	25 E	5.0	766	Unimodal	Standing biomass	1.96	Zobel and Liira 1997

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