For
 example,Andriollo et al. (2018) used F IS to examine diversity across bat species andWogan et al. (2020) used this same metric to examine subpopulation differentiation in a generalist bird. A methodological clarification to the original manuscript would have appropriately addressed these concerns.Prof. Hedrick cites supplementary materials from a dissertation chapter(Winkler, 2017) to make claims about **data** and analyses in the related article published in Ecology and Evolution at the center of this discussion(Winkler et al., 2019). These claims are unsupported because the **data** mentioned were written in 2017, almost two years beforeWinkler et al. (2019) was accepted for publication in Ecology and Evolution. Methods were revised, **data** were rescrutinized, and supplementary materials were all updated during the peer review process at two journals before being accepted by Ecology and Evolution.