The relationship between biodiversity and productivity has emerged as a major scientific issue today. In this paper, we introduce their concepts and research background., summarize the new advance and debates in the relationship between productivity and species richness: 1.To date, it is not conclusively accepted whether species richness or species traits decides the ecosystem function ;2.The increasing evidence of the relationship between biodiversity and productivity indicates that their relationship may vary strongly with scale. Understanding ecologic scale will help us break through in the study; 3. Although species differ in importance to ecosystem processes, we do not believe that this argues for preservation of just a few species for that we can not identify which species within a group are more or less important, particularly in the long-term; 4.There are not general patterns between species richness and productivity because of the complexity of natural ecosystem. On the basis of the existing results of the studies, both the problems open to be solved and the potential trend of the study are discussed, which is of great significance to the future studies.
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