Terrestrial snails as indicators of the health of the decomposer part of the ecosystem in Parks in Alberta
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Abstract
Land snails are a part of the decomposer group of organisms in the upper part of the soil which is normally ignored when considering Parks management.The land snails consist of a relatively small number of species that entered the area after the last glaciation, following the northward migration of the boreal forest, and also a second even rarer group of species that entered the area during the Hypsithermal event.Ecologically, the snails can be divided into four groups, viz., the turf species, the duff species, the wetland species and the generalists.They can only survive along the galleria forest along the main rivers, and in areas with trees or tall grass prairie up to about 1900 m elevation.Frequent ground fires largely destroy the terrestrial molluscan fauna in the grassland sites.Duff faunas are less affected.During revegetation, generalists may invade the area together with the duff specialists that will become dominant after a suitable organic layer has become established on the forest floor.Wetland species often survive fire.Other major threats are destruction of habitat, introduction of nonnative vegetation, development of recreational parks, urban and resource development and agriculture.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 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".