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Jeff Schofield
at Thu Feb 25 22:33:30 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Schofield ]
Time, it changes everything. You think not? I pose the example of the Everglades Ratsnake. In the 70s if you collected a ratsnake at X locality in the Glades it would look different from the 80s, 90s and today! Now this is a simplistic and dramatic and obvious change to habitat, but I assure you such changes in microhabitats that these snakes live within change equally as quickly with the addition of a road or elimination of predators. A F1 animal is more "valuable" than a F21, on that we can all agree. At F21 I wouldnt feel comfortable talking about locality, not many would. So at what point is locality lost? And if you admit is does get lost, what is the true value of it to begin with beyond the individual that found the snake to begin with??
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