Overwintering in the nest by hatchling map turtles (<i>Graptemys geographica</i>)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We monitored 75 natural nests of Graptemys geographica (Lesueur, 1817) in central Pennsylvania to determine the tactics and patterns of hatchling emergence. Following incubation, all hatchlings in 95% of nests delayed emergence from their natal nest cavities throughout autumn and winter until the following spring. Nests were constructed in a variety of substrates ranging from loose sand or coal to hard-packed clay mixed with gravel. Time from egg deposition to natural hatchling emergence averaged 333 days. During winter, hatchlings tolerated subzero temperatures as low as –8 °C, which are lethal to hatchlings of some sympatric species. Emergence occurred from 10 April to 25 May, and most hatchlings were found during morning following rain. There was an interactive effect of minimum daily air temperature and rainfall level 1 day prior to emergence on the number of hatchlings emerging each day. One half of all hatchlings found dead were contained in nests in which autumn emergence had apparently occurred. We speculate that autumn emergence by hatchlings of some turtle species may be an adaptive response to nest conditions likely to provide poor environments for successful overwintering.
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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) | 0.000 | 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".