Reproduction in neotropical Tropidurus lizards (Tropiduridae): evaluating the effect of environmental factors on T. torquatus
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Lizards exhibit a wide array of reproductive strategies. For tropical lizards, a single reproductive pattern is not evident, and the actual determinants of seasonality in reproduction remain unclear. Tropidurus torquatus is the most widely distributed species of the genus in Brazil and occurs in coastal and inland areas, and in islands off the Brazilian shore. In this study, we examine the reproductive cycle of T. torquatus at a coastal area in Rio de Janeiro State, southeastern Brazil. We analysed the reproductive cycle of T. torquatus from one coastal population to evaluate how reproduction is affected by local environmental factors (rainfall), and we also compared reproductive parameters of T. torquatus between two time periods (15 years apart) at the same locality. Tropidurus torquatus reproduces from the beginning of the dry season to the middle of the rainy season, even considering the two time periods. Reproductive season was similar between the coastal and inland populations suggesting that local environmental factors play a less important role in regulating the duration of the reproductive cycle of these lizards.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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