Appropriate application of information from biodiversity databases is critical when investigating species distributions and diversity: a comment on Dallas et al. ()

Using data from biodiversity informatics resources, Dallas et al. (Ecol. Lett., 20, 2017, 1526–1533) suggested limited relationships between climate and local abundance among several taxonomic groups. Investigation of a subset of these data suggests that their results may be misleading due to inappropriate application of the biodiversity data.