Five months under ice: biologging reveals behaviour patterns of overwintering freshwater turtles
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Winter in temperate regions is characteristically the coldest period of the year. Species in these regions adapt to freezing temperatures with physiological or behavioural mechanisms to mitigate the threats of cold exposure. For aquatic species, taking refuge under the ice minimizes the risk of experiencing freeze injury. The northern map turtle ( Graptemys geographica (LeSueur, 1817)) is one species that overwinters under the ice of lakes and rivers. Here, we observed the behaviour of free-ranging map turtles at a known overwintering site throughout an entire winter using biologgers equipped with tri-axial acceleration, temperature, and depth sensors. We observed that map turtles maintain localized locomotor activity at the overwintering site continuously during the winter. The extent and patterns of locomotor activity and habitat use varied between adult females, adult males, and juvenile females. Adult females were observed at the shallowest depths, coldest temperatures and moved the least, whereas juvenile females were observed at the deepest depths, warmest temperatures and moved the most. All groups remained at temperatures near freezing (0.98–1.39 °C) and at average depths ranging from 1.34 to 1.7 m. These behavioural patterns are consistent with a strategy to survive the winter while remaining aerobic and likely reflect differences in physiological demands.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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.
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