Benthic assemblage variation among channel units in high-gradient streams on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
We characterized channel unit types in 13 steep, headwater streams in British Columbia, Canada, based on physical variables, to determine the influence of channel unit type on benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages. Macroinvertebrate abundance was highest in riffles, followed by rapids, pools, boulder cascades, chutes, and bedrock cascades. Heptageniidae, Nemouridae, Chironomidae, Leptophlebiidae, Enchytraeidae, Chloroperlidae, Lepidostomatidae, and Tricladida were most abundant in either riffles or rapids. Baetidae and Simuliidae preferred bedrock cascades and chutes, and predominance of these families resulted in a distinct assemblage structure within these 2 channel unit types compared with other types. Benthic assemblages within riffles, rapids, pools, and boulder cascades were not distinctive from each other. Significant interstream variation was apparent in abundance of all taxonomic groups studied. In general, invertebrates were more abundant in streams with perennial flow regimes compared to those with intermittent or ephemeral flow. Assemblage structure within ephemeral streams was distinct because of the preponderance of Enchytraeidae. Defining physical characteristics of stream channel units using benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages is a useful means of discriminating habitat conditions within small, high-gradient streams.
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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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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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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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