The everglades are not a pristine habitat they have been altered by sugar cane farming and in fact there is an effort under way to restore them. Second the invasive species here almost never invade pristine habitat unless it is an island of habitat among urban sprawl that has been over taken by invasive species. Case in point brown anoles and cuban treefrogs which are the most numerous of the invasives here in central fl. If you are in an urban area where the native treefrog and green anole populations are under stress due to alteration of their habitat you will fiind populations of the former move in more tto fill a void that has been created than to over take a species that already exists there. Florida is not some far off island where species develop minus predatory pressures Green anoles and native tree frogs evolved with these pressures and are more adept to handle them than there invasive counterparts. It's when you remove their breeding areas hiding places and replace the native flora with exotic flora that doesn't support the same type of insect populations that things go awry. If you look at the ranges of introduced exotics in fl. almost all of there ranges correspond with urban areas and with the locations of various reptile importers. the burmese pop is a bit of an exception to this and I have other theories as to it's origin. Further more as aaron said climate will be a barrier to the expansion assuming it even is a breeding population at all. Something else I have my doubts about. Just because you find a gravid female(s) does not neccessarily mean they are breeding in the wild and until somebody raises burms in an outdoor cage with no temperature protection for several years and they successfully live and reproduce. There will not be one iota of evidence to back up the scientific THEORIES. There will only be speculation but then science has relied on speculation over facts for quite some time now. Creating fear over what might happen apparrently generates more grant money and book deals than boring facts do.

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