Food web reliance on allochthonous carbon in two high mountain lakes with contrasting catchments: a stable isotope approach
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Abstract
The carbon isotopic signature (δ 13 C) of dissolved inorganic carbon and food web components was examined in two high mountain lakes. Río Seco Lake is partially surrounded by alpine meadows and has temporal inlets, whereas La Caldera Lake is located on rocky terrain and does not receive inputs from runoff. We assessed whether these contrasting catchments involve differences in the isotopic signature of the food web components and then in the reliance on terrestrial carbon. The δ 13 C of dissolved inorganic carbon was not significantly different between lakes and reflected an atmospheric gas exchange origin. Unexpectedly, bulk particulate organic matter showed enriched δ 13 C values in both lakes, suggesting a terrestrial vegetation influence. Bulk particulate organic matter was exploited mostly by the cladoceran Daphnia pulicaria, whereas the copepod Mixodiaptomus laciniatus was 13 C depleted relative to particulate organic matter, indicating a selective feeding on an isotopically lighter source, likely phytoplankton. The results obtained show that, despite contrasting catchments, the food web of both lakes might be partially supported by terrestrial carbon for which utilization is species specific.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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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