https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.4.e32449 (17 Dec 2018)
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Does the manuscript conform to the focus and scope of this journal? | Yes |
Does the manuscript contain unpublishable, for example fraudulent or pseudoscience, content? | No |
Do the title, abstract and keywords accurately reflect the contents and data? | Yes |
Is the manuscript written in grammatically and stylistically correct English? | Yes |
Does the manuscript contain sufficiently detailed information to merit publication? | Yes |
Are the methods relevant to the study and adequately described? | Yes |
Did the authors cite most of the literature pertinent to the subject? | Yes |
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Are the conclusions supported by the data? | Yes |
If applicable, are taxonomic and nomenclatural novelties compliant to the respective biological Code? | N/A |
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This report is good to see as it raises the significance of georeferencing as one of the three pillars of quality occurrence data. It is well-written, informative and provides good coverage of the issues. The Supplementary Material was useful.
Rationale: Data are made available for more than research. For example, biosecurity management, reserve planning etc.
GRU: Jumps from Suppl. matterial 2 to 6?
Participant demographics first paragraph is largely covered under the next section (Results and Outcomes). Suggest move the para under Results and Outcomes to largely replace (combine) the former paragraph.
"shape files" should be "shapefiles"?
Table 1. Need title that explains what the numbers represent
Discussion. "somewhat unque"? Something is either unique or not.
"At the same time,": Unnecessary
Proposed actions to speed up biocollection data in research. This seems off-topic.
Conclusions. I would like to see a sentene or two on "what would we do differently in the future"?