The document describes 7 figures related to analyzing relationships between productivity, richness, and diversity at local and regional scales. Figure 1 shows a preferred unimodal relationship between local productivity and richness. Figures 2-3 examine local and regional richness and similarity comparisons. Figures 4-6 model regional hump-backed and linear relationships between productivity, richness, and their variance/mean. Figure 7 analyzes regional differences in vegetation and mean similarity.

1. Figure 1: Local Producivity against richness. Linear (solid) and unimodal
(dashed) poisson regression lines are shown. The unimodal model is preferred.
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2. Figure 2: Local richness
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3. Figure 3: Plot-wise comparison of similarity versus differences in productivity.
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4. Figure 4: Regional productivity versus richness. Linear (solid) and unimodal
modals (dashed) regression lines are shown. The linear model models are hump-
backed models
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5. Figure 5: Regional productivity against mean beta-diversity
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6. Figure 6: Regional variance in productivity as a function of mean productivity
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7. Figure 7: Regional difference in NDVI and difference in mean similarity
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