Vegetation Recovery Patterns Following Permafrost Disturbance in a Low Arctic Setting: Case Study of Herschel Island, Yukon, Canada
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Abstract
The potential long-term effects of thaw slump disturbances on tundra ecosystems include a significant reorganization of tundra plant communities. In this study, vegetation sucession of stabilized retrogressive thaw slumps was investigated using four age classes: 10, 20, and 250 years old, and undisturbed areas. While still active, slumps are characterized by bare soil, pools of water and liquefied mud, and the initial colonization of graminoids and forbs. Between 0 and 20 years after stabilization, the slump vegetation is characterized by low diversity, grass-dominated vegetation communities with a high percent cover of dry bare ground. This is followed after a few hundred years by a forb, dwarf shrub, and bryophyte-dominated community with a high percent cover of litter. With future warming expected, the presence and areal extent of thaw disturbances are predicted to increase. These findings suggest that the result would be an altered tundra species composition, which remains distinct for at least several centuries.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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