Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world

• Main Authors: Hughes, Alice, Ma, Keping, Costello, Mark, Waller, John, Provoost, Pieter, Yang, Qinmin, Zhu, Chaodong, Qiao, Huijie, Orr, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2021
• Subjects: global; Data; Distributions; Antarctic; Webb; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.zw3r2287z; http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.zw3r2287z

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....