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Costs of reproduction in introduced female Canadian beavers (<i>Castor canadensis</i>)

2000· article· en· W2141778111 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Vesa Ruusila, Aslak Ermala, Heikki Hyvärinen

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Zoology · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEcology and biodiversity studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiologySemelparity and iteroparityReproductionCastor canadensisPopulationBeaverReproductive successLitterEcologyDemographyZoology

Abstract

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Abstract In iteroparous organisms, maximum lifetime reproductive success is achieved through multiple successful breeding attempts. Therefore one of an individual's major life‐history decisions is the allocation of resources between current and future reproduction. We studied the production of foetuses in the introduced female Canadian beaver Castor canadensis in Finland in 1992–93. The number of foetuses produced in 1993 was negatively correlated with the number produced in the previous year, irrespective of female age. Females that bred only in 1993 tended to produce more foetuses in that year than females that had reproduced in both years. However, the total number of foetuses produced was higher in females that had young in both years, stressing the importance of multiple breeding attempts in maximizing lifetime reproductive success. Despite the small size of the founder population in Finland, mean litter size and pregnancy rates were not different from North American populations.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.692
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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)0.0020.000

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 head0.195
Teacher spread0.188 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Citations18
Published2000
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