Status of Maiden Hair Tree-Ginkgo biloba; Living Fossils Becoming Endangered
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ginkgo biloba is known as ‘living fossils’ as it is the only surviving member of ancient trees. Ginkgo fossils are being known from rocks as old as two hundred million years. This plant is native to China and scattered in broad leaved mixed-mesophytic forest up to 1,100 m and it is located on the border of the Yangtze River valley and on the hill country. The wild population is confined to the Zhejiang province, China. Some other parts also have wild population but those are not up to sufficient numbers. Flavonoids and terpenoids-lactones such as Ginkgolides and bilobalide are the active components and these are unique to the Ginkgo. Plants are used for bladder inflammation and pulmonary disorders, heart abnormalities, skin infections and neurodegenerative disorders. A Ginkgo product by the name of Tebonin is a leading herbal medicine in market. So the consumption of this plant worldwide is very high due to which plant is facing great threats towards its extinction. Ginkgo biloba is listed as endangered plant in the IUCN red list of threatened species. There is hardly any wild population of Ginkgo exists, majority of the trees are existing in the cultivated form and million of the dollar industry has cashed in based on the medicinal properties of the leaves. Resultantly it is possible that this living fossil will survive the short of time. A recommendation for its preservation is that there should be some steps to increase the size of wild populations.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.003 |
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".