Reduced ground beetle activity following ice damage in maple stands of southwestern Quebec
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 1998 ice storm led to significant tree crown loss in the deciduous forests of southwestern Quebec. Increased irradiation in the understory may alter edaphic parameters of affected forests, such as temperature and humidity. We examined effects such a disturbance might have on the epigeal fauna of sugar maple stands during the summers of 1998 and 1999. Dry pitfall traps were set in the deciduous forest of Mont-Saint-Bruno Provincial Park, 20 km southeast of Montreal, Quebec under three different post-ice storm conditions (light tree crown loss, severe loss, and gaps) from mid-July to mid-August. We captured significantly fewer total Coleoptera and Carabidae at sites damaged by the ice storm. Species diversity of Coleoptera was also lower at damaged sites. However, the daily activity cycle of the insects did not change following heavy crown loss. Synhuchus impunctatus (Say), the dominant forest species, proved to be very sensitive to the disturbance. Observed decreases in insect abundance may be related to environmental changes resulting from heavy crown loss; these effects were probably both direct (on metabolism) and indirect (on nutritional resources). Key words: Carabidae, crown loss, disturbance, ice storm, maple stands, Synuchus impunctatus
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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 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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