Tropical pasture carbon cycling: relationships between C source/sink strength, above‐ground biomass and grazing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract We measured net ecosystem CO 2 exchange (NEE) in Panamá over C 4 pasture plots that varied in grazing intensity. After adjusting for variation in light, there were noticeable effects of grazing‐related variables on CO 2 exchange that were largely dependent on the developmental stage of the plant canopy. Above‐ground productivity was positively related to grazing intensity ( r 2 =0.30). Two experimentally grazed fields had significantly lower standing crop biomass but no significant difference in CO 2 uptake (24.2 μmol/m 2 /s) compared with two ungrazed fields (20.3 μmol/m 2 /s). Grazed fields had significantly lower ecosystem respiration rates (10.3 μmol/m 2 /s) than did ungrazed fields (17.6 μmol/m 2 /s). These results suggest that, although these pastures were possible sources of CO 2 during the time intervals sampled, the size of the sources tended to be dampened by cattle grazing through reductions in ecosystem respiration. Thus, it appears that disturbance caused by cattle grazing will not always result in an increase in CO 2 release from tropical pastures to the atmosphere.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 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)
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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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