An ecosystem-based research program for capelin (<i>Mallotus villosus</i>) in the northwest Atlantic: overview and results
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Abstract
The Northwest Atlantic has been undergoing extensive ecosystem shifts involving oceanographic change and over-fishing. Capelin (Mallotus villosus), the focal forage fish species in this system, is a primary prey for most large predators, including cod, seals, whales and seabirds. Recently, the biology and behaviour of capelin has changed dramatically, although the basis for these changes is not well understood. Through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary research program among university, government and commercial fishers, we investigated mechanisms underlying these changes. In this manuscript we present an integrated overview of this initiative and synthesize key results from research carried out within the program. Our meso-scale study area encompassed the Funk Island Seabird Ecological Reserve, situated 60 km northeast of the Newfoundland coast. We identified 11 off-beach demersal spawning sites of capelin, which were primarily associated with small gravel in bathymetric depressions where temperatures were >2C. Through comparisons of beach and demersal spawning, we described two distinct developmental strategies of eggs: high mortality and rapid development for beach sites versus low mortality and slow development for demersal sites. Emergence strategies of larvae at demersal sites also differed from beach sites elsewhere in Newfoundland. Integrating results from vessel-based and moored hydroacoustics (Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers) and biological sampling suggested that the diel vertical migratory patterns of capelin and its zooplankton prey are related. Capelin >120 mm total length migrated with larger, longer-distance (0-300 m) crustacean migrators (amphipods, euphausiids), whereas capelin <120 mm migrated with smaller, shorter-distance (0-100 m) migrators (copepods). These patterns influenced the diurnal feeding patterns of top predators. Vessel-based measures of observed seabird distributional patterns and trawl-estimated capelin availability and colony-based measures of seabird diets
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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 | 0.021 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".