Great commentary from Evans et al. detailing some flaws in using space-for-time substitutions (SFTS) for climate change ecology. They provide a succinct piece with some ideas for moving forward.
I've used SFTS in the past and will definitely refer to this in the future.

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Here's a shiny app I made that maps the density of observations and unique species for all GBIF records in California. Pretty exciting to see aggregate metrics from 31 million(!) records on-the-fly using duckdb.
Webapp: calacademy-community-science.shinyapps.io/california-g...