The Effects of Sex and Season on Patterns of Thermoregulation in Blanding's Turtles (Emydoidea blandingii) in Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
When preparing management plans for species at risk, conservation practitioners need information on the habitat requirements of those species. In environmental extremes, the fitness of ectotherms is tightly linked to thermoregulation, as all physiological processes are temperature dependent. In an effort to better quantify the habitat requirements of Blanding's turtles (Emydoidea blandingii), a species at risk, at the northern extreme of their range, we quantified the thermoregulation patterns of adult males and gravid females during the active season. Turtles exploited their thermal environment significantly more in early season than in late season. Although basking allowed turtles to reach the highest daytime temperatures, surface water was the habitat with the highest thermal quality overall. Although not statistically significant, gravid females tended to maintain higher mean and maximum shell temperatures throughout the active season. Gravid females also spent substantially more time basking than males throughout the active season. Our results highlight the importance of stratifying field observations and thermoregulation data by reproductive class and time. Differences in behavior and thermal habitat requirements between reproductive classes and season must be considered in management plans for conservation efforts to be effective.
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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) | 0.000 | 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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