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wyandottecaver wrote:Using accessability by transport rather than actual caver activity.
tncaver wrote:Does she not realize that humans go everywhere regardless of roads and airports and that GD could have already reached every bat cave in the continental US long ago if humans were the vector?
GroundquestMSA wrote: snipwyandottecaver wrote:Using accessability by transport rather than actual caver activity.tncaver wrote:Does she not realize that humans go everywhere regardless of roads and airports and that GD could have already reached every bat cave in the continental US long ago if humans were the vector?
It seems that to a large extent accessability = "actual caver activity." While some humans may "go everywhere regardless of roads and airports," a lot more of them stick to caves that are easy to access. snip: I don't know what point the author is trying to make with this argument, but if she is assuming that humans are spreading WNS, then it would certainly be justified to predict that its arrival would firstly occur near easily accessed areas.snip:
wyandottecaver wrote:I thought she actually correctly identified the OK north TX corridor as the best possible chance to stop WNS at least in the short term. I also think she did a good job of addressing the shortcomings of the work in the end.
GroundquestMSA wrote:Tn - I'm not saying that WNS is caver spread, and if that is what the author of this paper is claiming then I can't agree. I'm only saying that caver traffic is greatest in easily accessible areas.
Tlaloc wrote:Bats are generally absent in Alpine caves.
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