Stable isotope mass balance of fifty lakes in central Alberta: Assessing the role of water balance parameters in determining trophic status and lake level
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Study region: This study spans the Prairie/parkland/boreal transition in central Alberta, including lakes in the Athabasca, North Saskatchewan, Battle River and Red Deer Basins. \n \nStudy focus: Stable isotopes of water, oxygen-18 and deuterium, were measured in a network of 50 lakes during 2008 and 2009. The lakes are the subject of recent concern due to widespread lake level decline and development of eutrophic conditions that have been attributed to climate and land-use impacts. An isotope mass balance method was applied to estimate evaporation/inflow, water yield, and water residence times to assess relationships between water balance and lake status. \n \nNew hydrological insights: Water yield was found to range from near 0 to 235 mm, evaporation/inflow was found to range from 18 to 136 %, and water residence time ranged from 2.3 to 58 years. The healthiest lakes in terms of trophic status are deep lakes with smaller catchments with long residence times. These lakes may have stable or variable water levels. Distressed lakes are often shallow prairie lakes with limited inflow and shorter residence times, and situated in areas with higher evaporation rates. High conductivity and high sulfate in some eutrophic lakes, attributed to saline groundwater inflow, may inhibit algae and cyanobacterial growth, thereby promoting healthier conditions. Extended drought under climate warming is expected to cause eventual decline of water levels in a greater number of lakes.
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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 |
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| 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.
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".