Response to comment on "Interspecific competition limits bird species' ranges on tropical mountains".

Freeman, Benjamin G; Strimas-Mackey, Matthew; Miller, Eliot T · Science · 2023

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Abstract

Xing <i>et al.</i> (<i>1</i>) create new variables and fit models to argue against the hypothesis that interspecific competition shapes species' elevational ranges. However, their key newly created variable is best interpreted as a proxy for the important variable of the interspecific competition hypothesis. Thus, their reanalysis uncovers the patterns we already described that are consistent with the interspecific competition hypothesis.