Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

• Published in: Ecography (Copenhagen) Vol. 44; no. 9; pp. 1259 - 1269
• Main Authors: Hughes, Alice C., Orr, Michael C., Ma, Keping, Costello, Mark J., Waller, John, Provoost, Pieter, Yang, Qinmin, Zhu, Chaodong, Qiao, Huijie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2021; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Bias; Biodiversity; Birds; citizen science; data; Developing countries; distributions; ecotypes; global; LDCs; macroecology; Marine systems; Sampling; Species; species richness; Taxonomy; Terrestrial environments; Trends; Vertebrates

Spatial patterns of biodiversity are inextricably linked to their collection methods, yet no synthesis of bias patterns or their consequences exists. As such, views of organismal distribution and the ecosystems they make up may be incorrect, undermining countless ecological and evolutionary studies....