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Record W4232814660 · doi:10.1641/b580615

Evolution Extended

2008· article· en· W4232814660 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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

VenueBioScience · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicAnimal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEvolutionary biologyBiology

Abstract

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southern regions of the hemisphere.How such delicate creatures achieve this arduous passage is fairly astonishingthe intricate vignettes describing these migrations amount to fascinating short stories.Descriptions of the research that led to the discovery and understanding of each migration are effortlessly woven into the narrative.The importance of research is underscored by the dearth of information we have about migrations that vanished before research could be done.Tens of millions of bison once roamed the Great Plains, but only sketchy impressions of where, why, and how these migrations operated can be gathered from the few brief anecdotes that exist.Piecing together the details of ecological processes that span continents is not trivial.We learn that it took almost 50 years of perseverance to track down the monarch butterfly migration in North America by recording the flight directions of marked individuals at different stages.It turns out that monarchs reach as far north as the US-Canadian border, but then turn south and westward, eventually funneling into a few sites on the forested slopes of a volcano in south-central Mexico, where they spend the winter attached to trees in gigantic clusters.It also turns out that individuals do not make the entire journey; rather, it takes several generations of butterflies to complete the round trip each year.Exactly how this intergenerational feat is accomplished has yet to be discovered.Today, technological miracles allow tracking transmitters to be affixed to migrating birds and even to dragonflies, and Wilcove takes us to the cutting edge of this research.His case studies are carefully selected to portray not only the wonder and diversity of migration strategies in nature but also the threats they face from modern humanity, and the full range of fates that have ensued: extinction (Rocky Mountain locust and bison in the American West), decline (new world songbirds, monarch butterflies, North Atlantic right whales), and recovery (gray whales).Declining numbers of

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.752
Threshold uncertainty score0.134

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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

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 head0.037
GPT teacher head0.289
Teacher spread0.252 · 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