Habitat Associations of Grasshopper Sparrows in Southern Québec
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ammodramus savannarum (Grasshopper Sparrow) is a grassland passerine considered at risk in several regions of eastern USA and Canada. Detailed information is lacking on structure and breeding-habitat components for Grasshopper Sparrows in eastern Canada. We surveyed Grasshopper Sparrows in suitable habitats in southwestern Québec and described habitat characteristics to increase our knowledge of the species' breeding-habitat associations in eastern Canada. Grass-hopper Sparrows were detected in grass-dominated abandoned fields, pastureland, and hayfields generally located on poor sandy soil supporting low and sparse vegetation. Suitable sites with or without Grasshopper Sparrows did not differ in their structural components nor in their plant composition. Sites used by Grasshopper Sparrows were embedded within a perennial crop-dominated matrix where forest cover was reduced, and were larger than sites where they were absent. Conservation and stewardship activities should aim to secure large tracts of grasslands in southwestern Québec.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 |
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".