Reported climate change impacts on cloud forest ants are driven by sampling bias: A critical evaluation of Warne et al. (2020)

Klimes, Petr, Bishop, Tom R., Fayle, Tom M. and Xing, Shuang 2021. Reported climate change impacts on cloud forest ants are driven by sampling bias: A critical evaluation of Warne et al. (2020). Biotropica 53 (4) , pp. 982-986. 10.1111/btp.12952

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Abstract

We present a reanalysis of the study by Warne et al. (2020), where authors reported substantial changes through time in a cloud forest ant assemblage in response to climate change after a decade. We show that these changes are due to major differences between the sampling periods in terms of sampling methods and effort. We stress the need for a fully standardized methodology to distinguish true climate change effects on communities from sampling bias.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0006-3606
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	19 August 2021
Date of Acceptance:	11 February 2021
Last Modified:	28 Nov 2024 15:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/143535

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