Red-sided garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) relocation and education project : final report /
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A red-sided garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis) relocation project was initiated to determine whether snakes would overwinter successfully in another occupied hibemaculum in the Stony Plain area, west of Edmonton, Alberta.A total of 1 190 garter snakes were relocated to a den 9.5 km away that contained over 8500 snakes.Thirty percent of the relocated snakes returned to the new den in the following years.None of the relocated snakes returned to their old den site.Size class measurements show the new den to contain a normal distribution of sizes, while the size distribution of relocated snakes was slightly skewed to larger size classes.Growth rates of the resident snakes and the relocated snakes were similar.Overall the project has been very successful, and shows that snakes can be relocated successfully to another occupied den.Education projects included talks, posters, field trips, media releases, and another snake den management program in Fort Assiniboine.A Snakes of Alberta poster was produced and will also increase public knowledge about snakes and their environments.Vll viii
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.022 | 0.005 |
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".