title: Response to Comment on "An update of Wallace's zoogeographic regions of the world".
abstract: Kreft and Jetz's critique of our recent update of Wallace's zoogeographical regions disregards the extensive sensitivity analyses we undertook, which demonstrate the robustness of our results to the choice of phylogenetic data and clustering algorithm. Their suggested distinction between "transition zones" and biogeographic regions is worthy of further investigation but is thus far unsubstantiated.
authors.affiliation: Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
authors.forename: Ben G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Holt
authors.forename: Jean-Philippe
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lessard
authors.forename: Michael K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Borregaard
authors.forename: Susanne A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Fritz
authors.forename: Miguel B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Araújo
authors.forename: Dimitar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dimitrov
authors.forename: Pierre-Henri
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Fabre
authors.forename: Catherine H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Gary R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Graves
authors.forename: Knud A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Jønsson
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nogués-Bravo
authors.forename: Zhiheng
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Whittaker
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fjeldså
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rahbek
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002980:Climate; D010802:Phylogeny