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New Study Contradicts USGS Python Climate Projections; growing evidence suggest struggling Florida pythons won’t expand north

New Study Contradicts USGS Python Climate Projections; growing evidence suggest struggling Florida pythons won’t expand north

By Paul Rodarte on November 25, 2012

A new study published in Integrative Zoology examines the impacts of cold temperatures on Burmese pythons. The study, ‘Environmental, physiology and behavior limit the range expansion of invasive Burmese pythons in southeastern USA’ (Jacobson et al. 2012), was prompted by a USGS climate prediction (Reed Rodda 2008) claiming feral Burmese pythons in the Everglades could […]

Posted in Featured | Tagged Elliott Jacobson, Everglades, Gordon Rodda, House Natural Resources Committee, HR 511, invasive species, National Geographic Society, Python Ban, python cold, Robert Reed, University of Florida, USDA Wildlife Services, USGS, Vida Preciosa International

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