Nest and brood site characteristics of mountain quail in west-central Idaho
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Mountain quail populations across the interior Pacific Northwest have declined substantially and information on their reproductive habitats is largely unavailable. Our study provides information on nest and brood-rearing habitats used by mountain quail in west-central Idaho. During 1992 and 1995 we located radio-marked mountain quail in the Little Salmon River drainage, Idaho and measured habitat components at nest sites and brood locations at macrohabitat and microhabitat scales. We examined microhabitat vegetation at overstory (>3 m), understory (0.5-3 m), and ground cover (<0.5 m) levels. At the macrohabitat scale, 71% of nests were located in open-canopied, conifer-shrub cover types, while broods were observed using a wider variety of shrub cover types. Mallow ninebark, black hawthorn, common snowberry, Saskatoon serviceberry, and wild rose were important shrubs in nest and brood microhabitat understory. Analyses incorporating macro- and microhabitat variables revealed that mountain quail used habitat components at nest and brood locations in response to yearly conditions. There was 1.6-times more cumulative summer precipitation in 1995, a wetter than average year, than in 1992, a drier than average year. During the dry year, quail apparently relied more on the structure provided by woody communities to rear broods when herbaceous ground cover was limited. Conservation and enhancement of large contiguous areas of shrubby and conifer-shrub communities near streams and in riverine canyons is of utmost importance in promoting population productivity and restoration of mountain quail populations in the interior Pacific Northwest.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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".