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Joseph A. LaManna 1,2,*, Scott A. Mangan 2, Alfonso Alonso 3, Norman A. Bourg 4,5, Warren Y. Brockelman 6,7, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin 8, Li-Wan Chang 9, Jyh-Min Chiang 10, George B. Chuyong 11, Keith Clay 12, Richard Condit 13, Susan Cordell 14, Stuart J. Davies 15,16, Tucker J. Furniss 17, Christian P. Giardina 14, I. A. U. Nimal Gunatilleke 18, C. V. Savitri Gunatilleke 18, Fangliang He 19,20, Robert W. Howe 21, Stephen P. Hubbell 22, Chang-Fu Hsieh 23, Faith M. Inman-Narahari 14, David Janík 24, Daniel J. Johnson 25, David Kenfack 15,16, Lisa Korte 3, Kamil Král 24, Andrew J. Larson 26, James A. Lutz 17, Sean M. McMahon 27,28, William J. McShea 4, Hervé R. Memiaghe 29, Anuttara Nathalang 6, Vojtech Novotny 30,31,32, Perry S. Ong 33, David A. Orwig 34, Rebecca Ostertag 35, Geoffrey G. Parker 28, Richard P. Phillips 12, Lawren Sack 22, I-Fang Sun 36, J. Sebastián Tello 37, Duncan W. Thomas 38, Benjamin L. Turner 13, Dilys M. Vela Díaz 2, Tomáš Vrška 24, George D. Weiblen 39, Amy Wolf 21,40, Sandra Yap 41, Jonathan A. Myers 1,2
- Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- Center for Conservation and Sustainability, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA.
- Conservation Ecology Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park, Front Royal, VA, USA.
- National Research Program - Eastern Branch, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, USA.
- Ecology Laboratory, BIOTEC, National Science and Technology Development Agency, Science Park, Pathum Thani, Thailand.
- Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand.
- Research Office, Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, Taipei 10066, Taiwan.
- Department of Life Science, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
- Department of Botany and Plant Physiology, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama.
- Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Hilo, HI, USA.
- Center for Tropical Forest Science–Forest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Republic of Panama.
- Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA.
- Wildland Resources Department, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
- Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
- Joint Lab for Biodiversity Conservation, Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU)–University of Alberta, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, SYSU, Guangzhou 510275, China.
- Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
- Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, USA.
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
- Department of Forest Ecology, Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Brno, Czech Republic.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA.
- Department of Forest Management, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
- Center for Tropical Forest Science–Forest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA.
- Forest Ecology Group, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA.
- Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technologique, Libreville, Gabon.
- New Guinea Binatang Research Centre, P.O. Box 604, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
- Biology Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branisovska 31, Ceske Budejovice 370 05, Czech Republic.
- Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.
- Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, MA, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI, USA.
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University, Hualian, Taiwan.
- Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USA.
- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Green Bay, WI, USA.
- Institute of Arts and Sciences, Far Eastern University Manila, Manila, Philippines.
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Science 30 Jun 2017: Vol. 356, Issue 6345, pp. 1389-1392
DOI: 10.1126/science.aam5678
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Response #1: LaManna et al. 2018. Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale" Science Vol. 360, Issue 6391, eaar3824. DOI: 10.1126/science.aar3824
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Response #2: LaManna et al. 2018. Response to Comment on "Plant diversity increases with the strength of negative density dependence at the global scale". Science Vol. 360, Issue 6391, eaar5245. DOI: 10.1126/science.aar5245