Regional records improve data quality in determining plant extinction rates

This is a rebuttal to a global analysis on plant extinction events that appeared in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Knapp, W.M., A. Frances, R. Noss, R. F.C. Naczi, A. Weakley, G.D. Gann, B.G. Baldwin, J. Miller, P. McIntyre, B.D. Mishler, G. Moore, R.G. Olmstead, A. Strong, D. Gluesenkamp, K. Kennedy. 2020. Regional records improve data quality in determining plant extinction rates. Nature Ecology and Evolution 4: 512–514.514 https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-1146-1

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1146-1