Was the Increase in Shrimp Biomass on the Northeast Newfoundland Shelf a Consequence of a Release in Predation Pressure from Cod?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Biological changes in the ecosystem of the Northeast Newfoundland Shelf during the late-1980s and 1990s included a collapse in the biomass of cod (Gadus morhua), a substantial increase in the biomass of northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis), and an expansion in the area fished for shrimp. The timing and magnitude of changes in cod biomass and the quantity of shrimp consumed by cod were explored to determine if they were consistent with the hypothesis that the increase in shrimp biomass was a consequence of a reduction in predation pressure from cod. Results are equivocal because the timing of both the increase in the shrimp stock and the decline in the cod stock remain unclear and there is considerable uncertainty in the estimates of consumption of shrimp by cod. Nevertheless, it appears that an initial increase in shrimp biomass must have occurred during the early to mid-1980s and was not related to changes in the cod, whereas a larger increase in shrimp biomass in the 1990s was related at least in part to the collapse of the cod.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".