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closeHuh?
Posted by twanto on 07 Mar 2011 at 21:13 GMT
Results: "In general, threat risk decreases linearly with an increase in the log of geographic range or body size."
Conclusions "....amphibians are more susceptible to decline when they have small geographic ranges and large body sizes..."
Either the results are misstated or the conclusions are incorrect. Please correct this.
RE: Huh?
merlin2 replied to twanto on 11 Mar 2011 at 05:52 GMT
Thanks, agreed, a bit confusing sentence but it reports results correctly. Addition of two commas, as below, would have been better, in retrospect:
In general, threat risk decreases, linearly with an increase in the log of geographic range, or body size