Multiple data sources and freely available code is critical when investigating species distributions and diversity: a response to Knouft (2018)

Tad Dallas, University of California, Davis
Robin R. Decker, University of California, Davis
Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis

Abstract

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS A recent comment from Knouft (2018) has suggested that our original article (Dallas et al.) was an ‘inappropriate application of biodiversity data’. Here, we affirm our results, and address the more general point about biodiversity data use.