clarify table 1 description

[sdtaylor]

reviewer 1 didn't understand this sentence.

Environmental models were trained using all sites together, without information regarding which transects occurred at which site or during which year.

How about:

Environmental models were trained using only the environmental data without information on the auto regressive time component or site random effects.

[davharris]

That's definitely clearer, but I think it's missing a couple of things.

• "the auto regressive time component or site random effects" is too specific, I think. It didn't just lack autoregressive effects and random effects: have any components at all for time or site.

• It doesn't specify that the models were trained at the continental scale instead of the site level.

I've poked at your sentence a bit, and haven't figured out how best to include these two factors. Maybe we need two sentences? Maybe we need a parenthetical with an "i.e." or an "e.g." somewhere?

[sdtaylor]

maybe the original is confusing because of the word transect? I remember talking about taking transect out of the paper entirely because its essentially the same as site.

[sdtaylor]

Environmental models were each trained as a single continental scale model using only environmental variables as opposed to site or time series information.

[davharris]

Nice. How about this version?

Environmental models were trained at the continental scale, using only environmental variables (as opposed to site or time series information) as predictors.

[sdtaylor]

:+1:

[ethanwhite]

Closed by #220.