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PNAS article everyone is quoting

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Posted by: BWsPythons at Tue Jan 31 15:14:07 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by BWsPythons ]  
   

Here is a link to the PNAS article the media are having a field day with. Quite frankly I'm surprised this article made it into PNAS, which is a very well known and distinguished journal. For a typical PNAS article, its pretty light in terms of data and it seems to me the crux of the paper is purely supposition. Yes they are seeing a decrease in mammals on their road cruises. I would have very much liked to have seen them report the number of Burms they saw on said cruises since they are hypothesizing the burms are eating the mammals it would stand to reason they should be seeing lots of burms on the roads in areas where mammal populations have fallen (if the burms are the culprits here). Bot showing any burm data leads me to believe the numbers are not that strong and would probably hurt their case and if I was reviewing this article I certainly would have asked for this data.
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