Scale matters: differences between local, regional, and global analyses.

In their commentary on our recent article, “Where have all the people gone? Enhancing global Conservation using night lights and social media” (Levin et al., 2015), Tortato and Izzo (2016) agree with the manuscriptu0027s approach and major conclusion. However, Tortato and Izzo (2016) state that some of the areas identified by Levin et al. (2015) as “unprotected visitation hotspots” (page 2162) are actually located “in and around protected areas of the Pantanal.” Tortato and Izzo (2016) suggest that this mismatch may result from incompleteness of the version of the World Database on Protected Areas that we used in our global analysis (being from August 2013).This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.