Red-eared Slider (<i>Trachemys scripta elegans</i>) nests in the Greater Toronto Area
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) is a non-native turtle found in abundance in Toronto’s wetlands as a result of pet releases. Although this species is known to reproduce successfully in southwestern Ontario, Canada, there is yet no evidence to suggest successful reproduction in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). As part of a native turtle nest protection program, volunteers inadvertently placed nest protector boxes over four slider nests in 2021 and 10 nests in 2022. This gave us the opportunity to determine whether nests produced viable offspring and whether these hatchlings would emerge in the fall. The exact nesting date for each nest was recorded. In 2021, eight of the 41 eggs from the slider nests showed very late-stage arrested embryonic development. In 2022, one of the nests had four hatchlings out of their eggshells but still inside the nest cavity. It is unclear whether the hatchlings would emerge later in the fall or overwinter in the nest cavity and emerge the following spring. If the small population sampled accurately reflects what occurs in the GTA, complete egg development may be possible for this species in some years, in some locations, with the right local micro-climate and micro-habitat. We discuss implications for turtle nest protection in Toronto.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".