Data accessibility
The data used in this study are already entirely in the public domain.
The Gentry forest plot data set (Gentry, 1988, Phillips & Miller, 2002)
is accessible through the Botanical Information and Ecology Network
(BIEN, https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/). The RLS dataset of
global reef fish abundance and biomass (Edgar et al., 2020; Edgar &
Stuart-Smith, 2014) is accessible through the Australian Ocean Data
Network (AODN, https://portal.aodn.org.au/).