Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 5, Pages 992-995Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12660
Keywords
sampling design; taxonomic sampling effect; chimeric sequences; species richness; metastudy; erroneous statistics; biodiversity
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The generally positive relationship between biodiversity of groups of directly or indirectly interacting organisms is one of the most important ecological concepts (Gaston, 2000 Nature, 405, 220-227; Scherber C, Eisenhauer N, Weisser WW et al., 2010 Nature, 468, 553-556). In a recent issue of Molecular Ecology, Gao C, Shi N-N, Liu Y-X et al. (2013: 22, 3403-3414) reported that the richness of plants and ectomycorrhizal fungi is positively correlated both at local and at global scales. Here, we challenge these findings by re-analysis of data and ascribe the reported results to sampling effect and poor data compilation.
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