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EricWI
at Thu Feb 10 13:27:22 2011 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by EricWI ]
“An excessive number of parameters means that each additional one acts as a filter, and using too many filters means that many sites that are truly at risk of python establishment get filtered out.”
Apparently, real world scientific data and observations do not seem to matter anymore. This is very clearly a concerning predetermined conclusion at play here when Rodda/Reed would suggest using only 10 parameters based on the guidance of a computer model, rather than 60 real world parameters as used in the Pyron study to determine the Burmese python distribution.
If Rodda and Reed's model were in fact, correct in this time frame, than we should be seeing pythons thriving in the Carolinas, the Gulf Coast states, Texas, accross the Sonoran desert, and over California and even into the west coast of Canada and Alaska by now.
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