Impact of deer browsing on plant communities in cutover sites on Anticosti Island
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Browsing by Anticosti Island's large white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population reduces the abundance of the deer's preferred species and increases the abundance of less preferred species. This alteration of plant communities can lead to degradation of deer habitat. However, the centres of large clear-cuts may be spared from deer browsing given that this animal's instincts regarding predation risk impel it to remain near escape cover. This project assessed the impact of high deer populations on plant communities in large clear-cuts harvested by cutting with protection of regeneration and soils (CPRS). To this end, vegetation growing within fenced-off areas was compared with that growing in adjacent unfenced plots following application of large CPRS in 1995 and 1996. The results show that deer browsing does not have an impact on the number of plant species but does dramatically reduce total species cover. Furthermore, although the number of species was the same in the fenced and unfence...
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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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.001 | 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.
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".