Survey and analysis of plant community types of Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park : final report /
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Identification and monitoring of biological diversity in Alberta is the primary mandate of Alberta Natural Heritage Information Centre (ANHIC).A fundamental strategy in the preservation of functional ecosystems is to identify and preserve a full compliment of habitat types, which in return support a diversity of animals, plants, and other life forms.Vegetation is an integral component of habitat and provides a relatively easy means of inventory and monitoring of ecosystem health both spatially and temporally.The current study, in Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, focuses on the identification of unique riparian and coulee plant associations, or plant community type.The study area is situated approximately 8 km north of the USA border and 40 km east of the town of Milk River and occurs at the interface between the Mixedgrass and Dry Mixedgrass Natural Subregions.Priority research is currently required to address gaps in the identification, description and distribution of plant associations within the coulee and riparian zones of these Subregions.Many of these communities recur over the landscape but may occur as very small patches of Im" or less.Alberta Sustainable Resource Development (ASRD) Resource Data Division contracted Wildlands Ecological to complete an inventory of natural/semi-natural plant communities, statistically analyse the data, and describe potential plant community or association types.The inventory and description of plant associations followed provincial standards and guidelines established by the International Classification of Ecological Communities (Grossman et al. 1998) and The Ecological Society of America (Jennings et al. 2003).The identified plant associations were then rated for similarity to other published plant associations according to previous applications by Corns (1983) andStrong (2002).A total of 88 detailed plots were completed resulting in the identification of 52 potential plant associations.These included 32 previously described plant associations and 20 potentially new or tentative plant associations.Within the previously described plant association group there are 4 Woodland, 10 Shrubland and 18 Herbaceous Vegetation Association types.Descriptions under the tentative plant association group include 1 Woodland, 7 Shrubland, 1 1 Herbaceous Vegetation, and 1 Sparse Vegetation Type.A common theme throughout the study area was the significant extent of invasive disturbance-increaser plant species.This was especially apparent in the riparian zone and on heavily grazed land.Heavily disturbed areas were avoided and sampling was directed solely towards the identification of natural and semi-natural plant communities.Regardless of this sampling intent, the majority of plots included non-native or invasive disturbance-increasers.Another observation was the wealth of potential plant associations within the riparian zone and coulees.Many of the potential new types were described by only one plot and additional research is recommended to better describe these.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".