Fossorial life constrains microhabitat selection of the amphisbaenian <i>Trogonophis wiegmanni</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We present a field study designed to characterize microhabitat selection in a population of Trogonophis wiegmanni, a fossorial reptile that is the only representative of the family Trogonophidae in North Africa. Our results show that T. wiegmanni used microhabitats in proportion to their availability with one exception: they showed a preference for areas with 5–10 cm high vegetation cover (i.e., perennial bushes and scrubs such as Atriplex halimus, Lycium intricatum, and Suaeda vera, and herbs such as Lavatera mauritanica and Malva parviflora). They avoided areas with abundant small stones, indicating that at least some structural characteristics of the microhabitat occupied by amphis bae nians seem to be different from those available. Our data also show that T. wiegmanni selected thinner and wider rocks than those rocks found randomly. Such choices could have important thermoregulatory consequences.
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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 |
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| 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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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