Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Massasauga rattlesnake has been assessed as Threatened by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) due to a historical population decline, continued habitat fragmentation and loss, and human persecution. It is listed as Threatened on Schedule 1 of the Species at Risk Act (SARA), and Threatened provincially in Ontario under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Canada hosts 8-10% of the global distribution of this species. The eastern Georgian Bay and Bruce Peninsula Massasauga populations are believed to be the largest and most secure found anywhere across the species entire range. The future Highway 69 expansion (from two lanes to four-lanes) from Parry Sound to Sudbury will be built through the eastern Georgian Bay Massasauga habitat, and as such, will be one of the most permeable highways in Canada. At this stage of the design, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is planning to construct 93 eco-passages (large crossings underneath the highway that provide safe passage for wildlife) which will include approximately 140 kilometres (km) of fencing designed to keep the animals off of the roadway and to funnel them towards the eco-passages. In addition to general habitat and species impacts, the future highway will destroy a large Massasauga hibernaculum (the Source Site). Figure 1 in the Appendix shows the future highway design going through the Source Site. Once construction through this area begins, the animals that currently use the Source Site will no longer have a hibernation site. As a requirement under the ESA, the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) obtained a section 17.2(c) permit for the highway project. This permit prescribes extensive mitigation measures required to construct and operate the highway, and a requirement to fund scientific research at the Source Site. This project was nominated for the TAC 2015 Environmental Achievement Award.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.002 |
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".