Recent changes in production in oligotrophic Uinta Mountain lakes, Utah, identified using paleolimnology
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Abstract
We use multiple proxies from lake sediment records of six remote alpine lakes in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, to investigate primary production and potential drivers of changes in trophic status over the last two centuries. Chlorophyll a, chlorophyll a flux, and percentage of organic matter (determined by loss on ignition) increase beginning in the mid‐20th century in five of the six alpine study lakes, indicating increasing production. These changes tend to coincide with decreasing sedimentary δ 15 N and increasing abundance of the nitrophilous diatom Asterionella formosa . An earlier, more subtle change in diatom community composition and δ 15 N indicates that human activities prior to 1950 had measurable effects on these lake ecosystems, although no corresponding increase in primary production was observed at this time. Multiple factors can lead to increased primary production at alpine sites, but the evidence presented shows that enhanced atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and phosphorus explain the recent, more prominent increase in production. Although previous research has suggested that alpine lakes are nitrogen limited, our results suggest nutrient limitation varies spatially and temporally, and is complex in these oligotrophic systems. This and other factors, such as catchment characteristics, will affect the sensitivity of a lake to atmospheric deposition–fertilizing effects. The changes observed show that remote lakes are vulnerable to long‐distance transport of nutrients, and that the risk of eutrophication could be intensified by increased nutrient inputs from expanding mining, fossil fuel combustion, and agriculture and by rapid warming predicted for the southwest.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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)
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.
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