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Event Ecology

2018· other· en· W4233062551 on OpenAlexaff
Bradley B. Walters, Andrew P. Vayda

Bibliographic record

VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology · 2018
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicGeographies of human-animal interactions
Canadian institutionsMount Allison University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEcologyDeforestation (computer science)ReforestationEvent (particle physics)Political ecologyGeographyPoliticsBiologyPolitical scienceComputer science

Abstract

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Event ecology is a research methodology put forward to counter the privileging of some types of factors or causes over others in such fields as political ecology. In contrast to approaches in these fields, event ecology seeks to explain environmental changes or events, both singular and recurrent, by first considering multiple possible social and/or biophysical causes or types of causes and then using further inquiry to progressively eliminate some causal possibilities while leaving others to stand. Proceeding from effects to causes rather than vice versa, it is based on a pragmatic view of research methods and explanation, with the goal of research being seen as simply answering “why” questions about concrete environmental changes or “events.” Researchers have already used event ecology to develop causal explanations of events constituting such diverse environmental phenomena as tropical deforestation, afforestation and reforestation, forest fires and peat fires, biological invasions, and fisheries collapse.

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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)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.016
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.108
Threshold uncertainty score0.361

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.016
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.004
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0100.009
Open science0.0030.007
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1080.021

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 head0.016
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.337 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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