Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Science. 2012 Mar 30;335(6076):1573; author reply 1573. doi: 10.1126/science.1216393.
Kraft et al. (Report, 23 September 2011, p. 1755) argued that the latitudinal trend in β diversity is spurious and just reflects a trend in γ diversity. Their results depend on the idiosyncrasies of their data, especially the latitudinally varying degree of undersampling and a local sampling setup that is not suitable for analyzing drivers of β diversity.
卡夫等人(2011 年 9 月 23 日,第 1755 页报道)认为,β多样性的纬度趋势是虚假的,只是反映了γ多样性的趋势。他们的结果取决于数据的特殊性,尤其是在纬度上不断变化的抽样不足程度,以及不适合分析β多样性驱动因素的局部抽样设置。