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Record W2089392933 · doi:10.1002/ieam.5630030301

The status of pollinators

2007· editorial· en· W2089392933 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Richard J. Wenning

Bibliographic record

VenueIntegrated Environmental Assessment and Management · 2007
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant and animal studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPollinationPollinatorAgricultureHoney beeForageGeographyCropFood supplyBeekeepingBiologyAgroforestryEcologyAgricultural sciencePollen

Abstract

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The Status of Pollinators Yet another environmental warning sign of the overwhelming influence of human activity on the global ecosystem?A mysterious phenomenon is wiping out honey bee colonies in the United States, Brazil, Canada, India, and parts of Europe.The loss of nature's best known pollinator could have a significant effect on agriculture and the food supply.In the United States, populations of the honey bee (genus Apis)-North America's most important pollinator-are in decline.According to a US Department of Agriculture census, the number of commercially managed colonies has declined from approximately 6 million in the 1940s to less than 2.4 million in 2002 (USDA 2002).During the first 6 months of this year, beekeepers became increasingly alarmed, reporting the loss of nearly one-fourth of their colonies-about 5 times the normal winter loss.According to the US Department of Agriculture, about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and the honey bee is responsible for 80% of that pollination.Honey bees play an integral role in the world food supply, and are essential for pollination worldwide of a wide range of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, forage crops, some field

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.009
Threshold uncertainty score0.029

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

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".

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Citations5
Published2007
Admission routes1
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