Measuring and modelling the crown and light transmission characteristics of juvenile aspen
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Crown dimensions, crown leaf areas, and leaf area densities were determined on individual trees in 96 juvenile Populus tremuloides Michx. stands in central Alberta, Canada. Crown radius, height, leaf area, and leaf area density were well explained by stem diameter at 30 cm (D 30 ). Leaf area index, estimated using the LAI-2000, reached a maximum of 4 m 2 ·m 2 in some stands by age 9 and decreased after age 25. Leaf area indices for the same stands, estimated by allometric relationships, were greater than 7 m 2 ·m 2 . Horizontal overlap between adjacent tree crowns declined from 68 to 38% of crown width with increasing average D 30 from 1.5 to 15.0 cm. These data were used to calibrate MIXLIGHT, a spatially explicit light transmission model, to predict the range of light conditions in the understory of juvenile stands. Light predictions were validated in 18 additional plots in which light transmission was measured. Measured light transmission ranged from 4 to 68% of above canopy light among sites and from 16 to 53% within a mapped site. MIXLIGHT predicted transmission well for average stand light levels (R 2 = 0.80). For individual positions within the mapped stand there was a strong relationship between predicted and observed light (R 2 = 0.92), but there was underprediction at high light and over at low light.
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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 | 0.001 | 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".