Lodgepole pine seedset increase by mesh bagging is due to exclusion of Leptoglossus occidentalis (Hemiptera: Coreidae)
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Abstract
Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex. Loud. var latifolia) seed orchards in British Columbia, Canada, suffer from low seedset problems. Seedset can be improved by installing mesh bags over the second-year cones. One mechanism of improved seedset has been shown to be exclusion of the seed-feeding western conifer seedbug, Leptoglossus occidentalis, but the possibility of microclimate alteration leading to improved seedset has not been carefully explored. I measured the internal cone temperatures of cones both inside and outside mesh bags, as well as the relative humidity around cones both inside and outside bags. I also installed time-lapse cameras that, every 5 minutes, photographed unbagged cones situated near bagged cones, and examined the photographs for feeding by L. occidentalis. Internal temperatures of cones inside bags were warmer, accumulated more heat units, and had higher peak temperatures than cones outside bags. Humidity was slightly higher inside bags in late season, particularly during rainy days. The evidence did not support the hypothesis that microclimate change is the cause of improved seedset inside bags. On the other hand, the cameras documented extensive feeding by L. occidentalis on unbagged cones, and showed a strong correlation between the amount of time a cone was fed upon and the subsequent seedset. Therefore the increase in seedset due to the mesh bags is not related to microclimate change, but is caused by exclusion of L. occidentalis.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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