Developmentally programmed and plastic processes of growth in the multistemmed understory shrub <i>Vaccinium hirtum</i> (Ericaceae)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper investigates the developmentally programmed and plastic processes of growth in the multistemmed, deciduous shrub Vaccinium hirtum Thunb. We conducted the demographic censuses of stems and the measurements of stem growth and morphology along a natural light gradient in forest understory. With light availability from 5%–28%, the probability of sprouting new stems increased three-fold. Sprouts growing in well-lit conditions were larger than sprouts growing less light. In contrast, neither leaf area per unit aboveground biomass (LAR) nor relative growth rates of aboveground biomass (RGR) of individual stems changed significantly with light. Irrespective of light availability, LAR increased and RGR decreased with stem age. RGR approached zero in old stems > 12-years-old, and their aboveground biomass productions were mostly used to replace deciduous leaves. Our results suggest that the response of aboveground structures to increasing light availability occurs by the production of new sprouts, rather than by the increased growth of existing stems. This indicates a hierarchy of plasticities within the multistemmed structure. Age-related strong controls of stem development reflect the sprouting and multistemmed habits. This growth strategy is favorable under high-stress environments with generally low resource levels such as forest understory and with unpredictable resource pulses such as caused by canopy gap disturbances.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| 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)
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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.
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