title: Comment on "Disentangling the drivers of β diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients".
abstract: Kraft et al. (Report, 23 September 2011, p. 1755) argued that the latitudinal trend in β diversity is spurious and just reflects a trend in γ diversity. Their results depend on the idiosyncrasies of their data, especially the latitudinally varying degree of undersampling and a local sampling setup that is not suitable for analyzing drivers of β diversity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. hanna.tuomisto@utu.fi
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tuomisto
authors.forename: Kalle
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ruokolainen
mesh_terms: D000531:Altitude; D044822:Biodiversity; D017753:Ecosystem; D004777:Environment; D010944:Plants; D014197:Trees