Preliminary Analysis of Hunter Observations of Northern Mountain Caribou in the Mackenzie Mountains, 1991-2010
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The northern mountain population (NMP) of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) was assessed by the Committee on Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as a species of special concern in 2002 and was listed as such under the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA) in 2004. In the preparation of a SARA management plan, demographic information on the 39 delineated caribou herds was required (Environment Canada 2011). The Bonnet Plume and Redstone are two of the larger northern mountain caribou herds residing in the Mackenzie Mountains shared by the Yukon and Northwest Territories (NWT). Survey data from these herds are lacking, however Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) has collected voluntary wildlife observation data from the Mackenzie Mountain Outfitters and clients since 1991. I used this time series observation data to explore demographic characteristics of the Bonnet Plume and Redstone herds. I found consistent differences between the two herds in the ratios of calves per 100 adult females and male:female but also surprising consistency within herds over the past 20 years.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".