2023-07-042023-07-042021DINIZ-FILHO, José Alexandre F. et al. Too simple models may predict the island rule for the wrong reasons. Ecology Letters, Hoboken, v. 24, n. 11, p. 2521-2523, 2021. DOI: 10.1111/ele.13878. Disponível em: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13878. Acesso em: 15 jun. 2023.1461-023Xe- 1461-0248https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13878Biddick & Burns (2021) proposed a null/neutral model that reproduces the island rule as a product of random drift. We agree that it is unnecessary to assume adaptive processes driving island dwarfing or gigantism, but several flaws make their approach unrealistic and thus unsuitable as a stochastic model for evolutionary size changes.engAcesso RestritoArtigo10.1111/ele.13878