MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W2105451588

ECOHYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE TO PEATLAND DRAINAGE AND WILDFIRE

2012· dissertation· en· W2105451588 on OpenAlexafffund
James H. Sherwood

Bibliographic record

VenueMacSphere (McMaster University) · 2012
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPeatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPeatSphagnumMossDrainageEnvironmental scienceHydrology (agriculture)Water tableGeographyPhysical geographyForestryEcologyGeologyArchaeologyGeotechnical engineeringBiologyGroundwater
DOInot available

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Disturbed peatlands may undergo a dramatic alteration in ecohydrological conditions, potentially limiting the recolonisation of peat-forming species like Sphagnum. A poor fen was experimentally drained in 1984, both the drained and undrained portion of the peatland burned in 2001, providing an unique opportunity to examine the ecohydrological response to ‘double disturbance’. The undrained site was characterized by a healthy recovery of peatland microform Sphagnum species, low soil water pressure (Ψ), high volumetric soil moisture (θ) content and high and stable water table position. However, the drained site showed no recolonization of Sphagnum with Brome grasses representing the dominant surface cover nine years post-wildfire. While the study period was generally wet and as such Ψ did not exceed thresholds limiting Sphagnum growth (≥ -100 mb) during the study period, a series of ecohydrological influences were found to be operating, limiting Sphagnum recolonisation at the drained site. The physical peat structure following drainage and wildfire has been considerably altered, changing the moisture retention and water storage properties of the peat, largely through substantive increases in bulk density (ρb). Moreover, specific yield (Sy) has also decreased the drained peat having become more humified, increasing unstable water table fluctuations. As such, this has lowered the resilience to drought. Only smaller decreases in θ are required to reach Ψ ≥ -100 mb at the drained and impose ecophysiological stress on Sphagnum growth. Dense canopy cover (Betula and Salix) has limited available radiation at the surface to recolonisation, shading out the surface, further limiting Sphagnum recolonisation.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.190 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

Quick stats

Citations0
Published2012
Admission routes2
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueMacSphere (McMaster University)Same topicPeatlands and Wetlands EcologyFrench-language works237,207