Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Vialle delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.
Landscape Ecology and Plant Production Systems Unit, Université libre de Bruxelles, CP264-2, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
Science. 2017 Nov 10;358(6364). doi: 10.1126/science.aao2077.
De la Cruz question the reliability of our results, claiming that we do not refer to the most appropriate spatial extent of drylands. In our response, we explain why we chose an existing and internationally recognized delineation of drylands among several options, and why our findings are due to a difference of remote sensing technique and not to the definition of drylands we have selected.
德拉克鲁兹质疑我们研究结果的可靠性,声称我们没有提到最适合的旱地空间范围。在我们的回应中,我们解释了为什么选择现有的和国际公认的旱地划分方法,而不是其他方法,以及为什么我们的发现是由于遥感技术的差异,而不是我们选择的旱地定义。