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Record W2994584679 · doi:10.1002/fee.2137

Lizard pollination: the stigma of having food on your face

2019· review· en· W2994584679 on OpenAlexaff
Patrick D. Moldowan

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2019
Typereview
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant and animal studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPollinationPollinatorBiologyPollenEcologyHerbivoreNectarLizardMutualism (biology)

Abstract

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“Hold still, you've got something on your nose!” There is only one stigma (that of plants, the pollen-receiving organ!) associated with having food on your face, at least where pollen and island-dwelling lizards are concerned. Lizards are important pollinators, in some cases replacing birds and insects in many island systems. This ornate day gecko (Phelsuma ornata) on Round Island, Mauritius, hopped from plant to plant, enthusiastically feeding on the nectar of endemic plants, and transporting pollen in the process. In fact, it was not unusual to see pollen grains sprinkled across the face of these attractive geckos during feeding forays. Just out of reach of a lapping tongue, the settled pollen grains were in an ideal position for transfer to the stigma of the next plant(s). Lizards play a seemingly sizable, yet largely underappreciated and understudied, role in pollination in island ecosystems. Round Island, the last remnant of endemic Mauritian lowland palm forest, has been saved following the eradication of non-native herbivores and intensive replanting of endemic plants. However, island restoration has been dogged by the persistence of exotic plants. Do these pollinating lizards influence the interplay of native and exotic plants? How large is the role of this little gecko in reconnecting and strengthening ecological connections in this community? Plant–animal interactions, such as pollination, have broad ecological and conservation implications, especially on islands.

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.002

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.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.168 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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".

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