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.