NA2RE is reliable but aims for improvement: an answer to Vamberger and Fritz (2018) |
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| Authors: | Neftali Sillero João Campos Anna Bonardi Claudia Corti Raymond Creemers Pierre-Andre Crochet Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović Mathieu Denoël Gentile Francesco Ficetola João Gonçalves Sergei Kuzmin Petros Lymberakis Philip de Pous Ariel Rodríguez Roberto Sindaco Jeroen Speybroeck Bert Toxopeus David R. Vieites Miguel Vences |
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| Affiliation: | 1.CICGE, Centro de Investiga??o em Ciências Geo-Espaciais, Observatório Astronómico Prof. Manuel de Barros, Alameda do Monte da Virgem,Vila Nova de Gaia,Portugal;2.CIBIO,University of Porto,Porto,Portugal;3.Departement of Environmental Science and Policy,Università degli Studi di Milano,Milano,Italy;4.CNRS, Laboratoire d’écologie Alpine (LECA),Universite Grenoble Alpes,Grenoble,France;5.Museo di Storia Naturale dell’Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia “La Specola”,Firenze,Italia;6.RAVON, Reptile Amphibian Fish Conservation Netherlands,Nijmegen,The Netherlands;7.CEFE, CNRS,University Montpellier,Montpellier,France;8.Department of Biology and Ecology,Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics University of Ni?,Ni?,Serbia;9.Department of Evolutionary Biology,Institute for Biological Research “Sini?a Stankovi?” University of Belgrade,Beograd,Serbia;10.F.R.S. - FNRS Senior Research Associate, Laboratory of Fish and Amphibian Ethology, FOCUS, Behavioural Biology Group,University of Liège,Liege,Belgium;11.Institute of Ecology and Evolution,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia;12.Natural History Museum of Crete,University of Crete,Heraklion,Greece;13.Amsterdam,The Netherlands;14.Institut für Zoologie, Stiftung Tier?rztliche Hochschule Hannover,Hannover,Germany;15.Museo Civico di Storia Naturale,Carmagnola (TO),Italia;16.Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Herman Teirlinckgebouw, site Thurn & Taxis,Brussels,Belgium;17.Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC),University of Twente,Enschede,The Netherlands;18.Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC),Madrid,Spain;19.Technische Universit?t Braunschweig, Division of Evolutionary Biology,Zoological Institute,Braunschweig,Germany |
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| Abstract: | A recent paper has suggested that NA2RE, the New Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles of Europe, does not provide a reliable basis for ecological niche modelling studies due to errors flagging introductions and missing data for the native range of the pond turtle genus Emys. We point out that the original NA2RE paper already acknowledged that it was not aimed for fine-scale ecological distribution modelling and that it had the objective of stimulating research for improving the maps. New works now complement the Atlas in improving the coverage and providing new distribution maps for species within species complex. Moreover, we stress that the NA2RE web platform at present hosts only the distribution data compiled in 2014 from different sources, using the taxonomy adopted by the authors at the time. As with any large database, it is advisable that these data are carefully evaluated and quality-filtered before their use in scientific studies. We defend the reliability of the NA2RE web platform as the currently most comprehensive resource for the comparative chorological study of amphibians and reptiles in Europe, and encourage publication of updates and additions following the most recent taxonomic changes, to continuously improve this database and the Atlas. |
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