Method matters: pitfalls in analysing phenology from occurrence records.
Elise A LarsenVaughn ShireyPublished in: Ecology letters (2021)
Large occurrence datasets provide a sizable resource for ecological analyses, but have substantial limitations. Phenological analyses in Fric et al. (2020) were misleading due to inadequate curation and improper statistics. Reanalysing 22 univoltine species with sufficient data for independent analysis, we found substantively different macroscale phenological patterns, including later onset at higher latitude for most species.