I’ve been involved in a debate about the SAFE index, which has arisen from a paper that was published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment by Clements et al., and from the subsequent media reporting of the article. Corey Bradshaw has been the main protagonist on the other side of this debate, some of which he discusses on his blog.
I’ve written a response to his blog on his site, which can be accessed from this link.
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