Old forest remnants contribute to sustaining biodiversity: The case of the Albert River valley
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Abstract
The Albert River valley hosts the only old-growth stands of western redcedar in the Invermere Timber Supply Area (TSA). This portion of the Interior Cedar Hemlock moist cool (ICHmk1) biogeoclimatic variant is spatially disjunct from the rest of the ICHmk1 in British Columbia and lies on calcareous soil. Surveys of lichens and vascular plants in the valley bottom of the Albert River revealed an uncommonly rich area, including about 10% of the vascular plant species known to British Columbia. Eight of these are either Blue- or Red-listed in the province. Nine of the lichens found are either new to North America, western North America, or British Columbia, and seven may be new to science. Four more species have a predominantly oceanic distribution, and one is mainly Arctic. Conserving remnants of old-growth forest from forest harvest can play a critical role in sustaining biodiversity, particularly those in rare and poorly represented ecosystem types, so these areas merit careful consideration in the designation of reserves. Such significant remnants are easily overlooked when assessment of potential conservation areas is restricted to coarse-scale approaches that focus on intact landscapes. Coarse-filter approaches can identify potential rare ecosystems and guide field surveys, but are no substitute for field surveys.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".