Understanding the effects of SCUBA divers on blackeye goby (Coryphopterus nicholsi) behaviour in a predation risk framework
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ecotourism activities in which humans experience close contact with animals may affect animal behaviour by eliciting responses analogous to those towards a predatory threat.In addition, an animal's state may affect the form of its response.This thesis examines the effects of the ecotourism activity of SCUBA diving on the behavioural time allocation and reproductive success of the blackeye goby, Coryphopterus nicholsi, in Barkley Sound, on Vancouver Island, Canada.Using remote observation in both field and laboratory experiments, I found that neither long-term be haviour nor reproductive success are affected by ongoing SCUBA diving activity.However, the immediate presence of divers does result in less time allocated to more risky behaviours.No evidence of habituation was found.Size class of gobies affects both behaviour and reproductive success, especially in a predator-free environment.Larger males allocate less time to risky behaviours, and obtain more spawnings from females, than do smaller males.
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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 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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