Regional Variation in <em>Amelanchier</em> in the Whitewood area of Southeastern Saskatchewan and the First Saskatchewan Records of <em>Amelanchier sanguinea</em>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on measurements and evaluation of 111 specimens from 51 localities in the Whitewood area of southeastern Saskatchewan, most Amelanchier alnifolia from the prairie parkland is represented by short, stoloniferous shrubs, less than 2 m tall with 5 – 100+ stems. In the Moose Mountain area, A. alnifolia is represented by shrubs that are taller, sometimes to 7 m, not stoloniferous and usually having fewer than five stems. Although many of these plants have the inflorescence characteristics of A. alnifolia, some are referable to the eastern A. sanguinea, not previously reported from southeastern Saskatchewan. Such plants appear to be confined to the wooded environment of Moose Mountain. Amelanchier alnifolia is not as clearly differentiated by habit or leaf tip characteristics as the literature suggests. Inflorescence characteristics, habit and actual genetic variation may be associated with biogeographic patterns, especially historically wooded islands within the prairie ecozone. These patterns are an important consideration in classification studies and in protecting and utilizing Amelanchier germplasm.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".