Alien and invasive native vascular plants along the Norman Wells Pipeline, District of Mackenzie, Northwest Territories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vegetation studies were carried out as part of a research and monitoring program to evaluate project effects and the performance of environmental mitigation along the Norman Wells to Zama Pipeline.This was the first fully buried oil pipeline and the largest and most extensive revegetation program to date in the boreal forest -discontinuous permafrost zone of the Northwest Territories.The pipeline owners (Interprovincial Pipe Line (NW) Ltd. (IPL), now Enbridge Pipelines Inc.) developed a special combination of seeds composed of predominantly native North American species from certified seed stocks to help reduce the risk of introduction of alien (non-North American) species.Monitoring, primarily focussed on the pipeline construction period, confirmed the initial presence of a limited number of alien species.The purpose of this paper is to update floristic data for the Continental Northwest Territories and document invasion of alien plants despite mitigative measures.Of the 34 alien taxa collected along the pipeline right-of-way, 15 are new to the flora of the mainland Northwest Territories including Agrostis stolonifera, Alopecurus arundinaceus, Alopecurus pratensis, Bromus commutatus,
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
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.
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".