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Appropriate application of information from biodiversity databases is critical when investigating species distributions and diversity: a comment on Dallas et al . ([Dallas, T., 2017])
Author(s) -
Knouft Jason H.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
ecology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.852
H-Index - 265
eISSN - 1461-0248
pISSN - 1461-023X
DOI - 10.1111/ele.12959
Subject(s) - biodiversity , abundance (ecology) , geography , global biodiversity , ecology , diversity (politics) , environmental resource management , biology , environmental science , sociology , anthropology
Using data from biodiversity informatics resources, Dallas et al . (Ecol. Lett., 20, 2017, 1526–1533) suggested limited relationships between climate and local abundance among several taxonomic groups. Investigation of a subset of these data suggests that their results may be misleading due to inappropriate application of the biodiversity data.