A review of distribution, threats and conservation of freshwater turtles of Ontario, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
There are four families and eight species of freshwater turtles found in Canada, and the same families and species have also been recorded in Ontario province, all species are listed in CITES Appendices, in which six are declared as threatened species. Three families are hard shelled turtles viz Family Emydidae, Family Kinosternidae, and Family Chelydridae while Family Trionichidae is the only soft shelled turtle. Legally, all freshwater turtles in Ontario have been protected. Many efforts have been made by the Government, Non-governmental organizations and Academia for the protection and conservation of turtle population in Ontario. IUCN, WWF Canada, Ontario Wildlife Department, and Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC), Canadian Wildlife federation, Wildlife preservation Canada, Ontario turtle conservation center (OTCC) and some other organizations are contributing in efforts for the conservation of freshwater turtles in Ontario. But still, freshwater turtles are facing serious threats due to climatic changes and some anthropogenic activities.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.009 | 0.013 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".