The Climatic Implications of Lake Level Expansion in the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary, Fort Providence, Northwest Territories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Remotely sensed data indicates that lake expansion north of Fort Providence, Northwest Territories, is statistically significant, potentially contributing to wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) migrating beyond the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary.The Mackenzie herd is one of the few remaining populations not infected by bovine brucellosis (Brucella abortus) and tuberculosis (Mycobacterium bovis).Interaction with nearby infected herds could introduce widespread infection.Lake expansion is often driven by changes in climate, however climate records for this region are lacking.Dendrochronology can be used to examine longer-term climate.Climate was reconstructed using nine white spruce (Picea glauca) chronologies.Correlations were highest between the chronologies and the Palmer Drought Severity Index, which show climate variability has increased within the study area since 1915.Remote sensing results correlate with positive phases of the July-October Pacific North American pattern, however the freezing date of the active layer may provide a better understanding of water level fluctuations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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.
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".