Pinus devoniana LIKELY AVOIDS DROUGHT STRESS BY DELAYING SHOOT ELONGATION
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Abstract
Understanding the growth rate and the timing of conifer seedling bud elongation can be useful in selecting tree species for commercial plantations and ecological restoration, either under the current climate or to adapt to climatic change. Shoot growth dynamics of three dominant Pinus species of the pine-oak forest of the Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro indigenous community in Western Mexico were inspected. Using a common garden trial of three species and seven provenances, growth was related to contemporary (1961-1990 period averages) and future (rcp6.0 ensemble and decade centered on year 2060) climate. Significant differences between specieswere found in two-year-old plants, P. pseudostrobus and P. leiophylla showed greater shoot elongation and plant height, larger elongation period and plant height, and later growth cessation than P. devoniana, P. pseudostrobus and P. leiophylla, which begin their growth and elongate their shoots during the warm, dry season (March to May). Pinus devoniana delays the start of growth until the end of the dry season (end of May). This suggests that P. devoniana, at least for the second year of growth, probably avoids drought stress by delaying shoot elongation, which could partly explain why this species grows at lower altitude than the other pines. Climate change projections for Mexico indicate an increase in aridity conditions by the year 2060, particularly for the lower altitudinal limit of the populations of P. pseudostrobus and P. leiophylla. Reforestation with P. devoniana might be required at the lower altitud limits of these pines if forest decline continues.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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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".