Reply to Fattorini and Borges: Conditional CIs and sensitivity analysis characterize uncertainty in global insect richness estimates

Authors

• Robert Colwell, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut,
• Laura Melissa Guzman
• Dirk Steinke
• Anne Chao
• Daniel H. Janzen, University of Pennsylvania
• Winnie Hallwachs, University of Pennsylvania
• Austin Baker
• Jose L Fernández-Triana, hCanadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
• Paul D.N. Hebert
• Frank Joyce
• Robert Puschendorf, School of Biological and Marine Sciences
• Donald Quicke
• Rodolphe Rougerie, Department of Origins and Evolution, Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences & Lettres, Sorbonne Université, Université des Antilles, Paris F-75005, France
• M. Alex Smith, University of Guelph
• Nelson Zamora, Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Cartago 159-7050, Costa Rica
• Michael J. Sharkey, The Hymenoptera Institute, Lexington, KY 40502

ORCID

• Robert Puschendorf: 0000-0002-8105-171X

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

10.1073/pnas.2631365123

Publication Date

2026-10-13

Publication Title

PNAS Nexus

Volume

123

Issue

41

Deposit Date

2026-10-06

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Colwell, R., Guzman, L., Steinke, D., Chao, A., Janzen, D., Hallwachs, W., Baker, A., Fernández-Triana, J., Hebert, P., Joyce, F., Puschendorf, R., Quicke, D., Rougerie, R., Smith, M., Zamora, N., & Sharkey, M. (2026) 'Reply to Fattorini and Borges: Conditional CIs and sensitivity analysis characterize uncertainty in global insect richness estimates', PNAS Nexus, 123(41). Available at: 10.1073/pnas.2631365123