Sasquatch

Some of the work I do is to quantify landscape distributions of "habitat" along the Upper Mississippi River. Habitat is a poorly defined concept, but one that we talk about all of the time. Just how do different organisms perceives their world? What do they eat? Where do they find shelter? What scales do they operate at? To answer these questions we collect data from the field. But often, these data are severely limited. Here is a link to an interesting report that shows the dangers of using bad data.

http://www.scientificblogging.com/evilutionary_biologist/ecological_niche_modeling_and_finding_sasquatchs_range_distribution

Now if only our cable news channels understood the impact of misleading information....