Juvenile geoduck (Panopea generosa) predator protection with tubes: Assessing effects of tube diameter, length, and mesh size on growth and survivorship
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intertidal culture of the Pacific geoduck clam (Panopea generosa) involves planting juveniles in the sediment in tubes covered with mesh for predator protection. We examined the interactive effects of tube diameter (10.2 and 15.2 cm), tube length (25.4 and 30.5 cm), and mesh size (6 and 12 mm) on percent shell-length increase, percent wet-weight increase, and percent survivorship of cultured juvenile geoducks (mean shell length ± SD = 29.6 ± 4.8 mm) over 12 months. Percent increase in shell length and wet weight were both significantly affected by the main effects of tube diameter and mesh size, as well as the interaction between the two factors. Shell length was also significantly affected by the main effect of tube length. Geoducks were significantly shorter and lighter in the 10-cm/6-mm (diameter/mesh) treatment than in the 10-cm/12-mm, 15-cm/6-mm, and 15-cm/12-mm treatments. The 25-cm-long tubes were associated with significantly longer (but not heavier) individuals than the 30-cm ones. Average survivorship (±SE) ranged from 38.3 ± 7.1% to 55.0 ± 6.5% (mean ± SD: 47.7 ± 2.5%) in the eight treatments and was not significantly affected by any main effects or interaction terms. The results have implications for commercial intertidal geoduck culture in British Columbia (Canada) and Washington (USA) where clams are protected with solid plastic tubes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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