Acknowledgements:
We are grateful for all the collections and individuals contributing and
curating data to aggregated occurrence datasets including GBIF. With
gratitude we recognize the intellectual contributions of an anonymous
reviewer on ELE13731, whose feedback was thoughtful and challenging, and
improved our conceptual approach to this comment. We appreciate feedback
on drafts by Michael Belitz, Dr. Rob Guralnick, and Dr. Leslie Ries.
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Award
EF-1702664. V.S. received support from Georgetown University and from a
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship #1937959.