The comment by Gamisch (2020) draws the attention of users of the R-package RPANDA (Methods Ecol. Evol., 7, 2016, 589) on situations when properly interpreting the results of linear diversification dependencies requires caution. Here we provide clarifications to help users interpreting their results when using any type of functional diversification dependencies with time or the environment.
Keywords: Extinction; RPANDA; macroevolution; maximum-likelihood; rate dependencies; speciation.
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