Better incentives are needed to reward academic software development

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Eversource Energy Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA. cory.merow@gmail.com.
• ² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
• ³ Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
• ⁴ Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan.
• ⁵ Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
• ⁶ School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
• ⁷ Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
• ⁸ Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ⁹ Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
• ¹¹ Purdue Center for Plant Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
• ¹² Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹³ Department of Biology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁴ PhD Program in Biology, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁵ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
• ¹⁶ Center of Biological Risk, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
• ¹⁷ Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.