Benthic–Pelagic Links along the Atlantic Canadian Coast
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Benthic rocky intertidal species are irregularly distributed along marine coastlines. Nearshore pelagic conditions often explain such variation, but such studies have overwhelmingly been done on eastern ocean boundary coasts. We investigated the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, a western ocean boundary coast. We studied wave-exposed, rocky intertidal habitats spanning 415 km of coastline. The spring recruitment of barnacles and mussels (the two main filter-feeders) varied irregularly along the coast. Coastal phytoplankton, particulate organic carbon, and sea surface temperature explained, to varying degrees, the geographic structure of recruitment. In turn, the summer abundance of barnacles and mussels was positively related to their spring recruitment. Ultimately, predator (dogwhelk) abundance was positively related to the recruitment and/or abundance of barnacles and mussels (the main prey of dogwhelks). Overall, these data support the occurrence of benthic–pelagic coupling and bottom-up forcing on this western ocean boundary coast. These photographs illustrate the article “Benthic-pelagic coupling and bottom-up forcing in rocky intertidal communities along the Atlantic Canadian coast” by R. A. Scrosati and J. A. Ellrich, published in Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2229
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".