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Record W3125837245 · doi:10.1079/9781789242430.0021

Biological control in Argentina.

2019· book-chapter· en· W3125837245 on OpenAlex

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No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCABI eBooks · 2019
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBiological Control of Invasive Species
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiological pest controlBiologyWeedAgroforestryGeographyWeed controlEcology

Abstract

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<title>Abstract</title> Biological control in Argentina has a longstanding tradition with records of natural enemy introductions since the beginning of the 20th century, mainly between 1900 and 1940. Eight predators, 70 parasitoids and seven pathogens have been introduced for arthropod control, plus eight weed biocontrol agents. Argentina has also provided 22 arthropod species to Africa, Australia, Canada and the USA for arthropod pest biocontrol. At least 26 agents from Argentina have been released against 24 weeds of South American origin around the world, notably for freshwater invaders. Fruit production and pine plantations still have the largest areas under some degree of classical biocontrol, yet the current impact of the agents is not well known. Citrus fruit flies are under experimental augmentative biocontrol with one parasitoid species and 1 million hectares under an IPM regime that includes cultural control, trapping and SIT technology. As for private initiatives, a small fraction of greenhouse tomatoes and peppers are under augmentative biocontrol. Augmentative releases are also made in sugarcane plantations and citrus groves. Finally, an extensive part of the Argentine territory is affected by thistles and skeleton weed, and several artificial and natural water bodies invaded by native aquatics are subject to classical biocontrol, although they are still important weeds in many areas. Despite the government's explicit endorsement, resources are scarce and applied biocontrol in all its forms is still sorely undeveloped in Argentina.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.956
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.038
GPT teacher head0.192
Teacher spread0.155 · 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