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. 2025 Aug 26;2025:gigabyte163. doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.163
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Reviewer name and names of any other individual's who aided in reviewer Bastien MOLCRETTE
Do you understand and agree to our policy of having open and named reviews, and having your review included with the published papers. (If no, please inform the editor that you cannot review this manuscript.) Yes
Is the language of sufficient quality? Yes
Please add additional comments on language quality to clarify if needed
Are all data available and do they match the descriptions in the paper? Yes
Additional Comments “Date information was available for 75% of the records (n= 299)”: I only count 289 occurrences with event date in the GBIF dataset; needs to be clarified. Related: “Finally, it is worth noting that about 33% of the records lack available date information”: 107 occurrences missing data info over 396 occurrences = 27% (not 33%)
Are the data and metadata consistent with relevant minimum information or reporting standards? See GigaDB checklists for examples <a href="http://gigadb.org/site/guide" target="_blank">http://gigadb.org/site/guide</a> Yes
Additional Comments 1 - GBIF Non-American dataset catalog number 86 (Azores occurrence) is indicated as continent = Asia, when it is Africa in the manuscript (Africa makes more sense than Asia) 2 - 46 Recorded date are not formatted correctly, need to follow ISO 8601 (see https://discourse.gbif.org/t/please-share-your-dates-correctly/3824)
Is the data acquisition clear, complete and methodologically sound? Yes
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Is there sufficient detail in the methods and data-processing steps to allow reproduction? Yes
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Is there sufficient data validation and statistical analyses of data quality? Yes
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Is the validation suitable for this type of data? Yes
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Is there sufficient information for others to reuse this dataset or integrate it with other data? Yes
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Any Additional Overall Comments to the Author Need to change GBIF dataset license to CC0
Recommendation Minor Revision