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Record W3132287405 · doi:10.1080/00288330.2021.1879177

Effects of point source discharges on common bully ( <i>Gobiomorphus cotidianus</i> ) along the Waikato River, New Zealand

2021· article· en· W3132287405 on OpenAlexaff
David W. West, Nicholas Ling, Brendan J. Hicks, Michael R. van den Heuvel, Louis A. Tremblay

Bibliographic record

VenueNew Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicFish Ecology and Management Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Prince Edward Island
FundersMinistry of Business, Innovation and EmploymentWelding Research Council
KeywordsEnvironmental scienceGeographyOceanographyGeology

Abstract

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ABSTRACT The common bully ( Gobiomorphus cotidianus ) was used as a bioindicator to assess the impacts of geothermal, bleached kraft mill effluent (BKME), sewage, and thermal discharges in the Waikato River, Northern New Zealand. A range of morphological and physiological parameters were measured to assess fitness in fish sampled upstream and downstream from these point sources. Isotopic signatures gave evidence that fish were resident at sites and showed a gradient corresponding to site‐specific sources of carbon and nitrogen along the river. There were changes in the size range and age structure of the populations but, no physiological responses were detected. Limited impacts were observed on common bully health at individual discharge sites, or downstream where the river showed gradual deterioration in water quality, particularly nutrient enrichment, and increased turbidity. Despite the gradual deterioration in water quality no concomitant cumulative impacts were observed in common bully. Responses were largely local in nature, responding to point‐source discharges. Population responses at the geothermal and BKME discharge sites warrant further study to investigate possible effects on fish recruitment.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.159
Threshold uncertainty score0.316

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.256
Teacher spread0.241 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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