Reptiles of the Auca Mahuida Natural Protected Area, Argentina
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Reptiles are among the most threatened vertebrates worldwide. Habitat loss and fragmentation, human overexploitation, introduced invasive species, emerging diseases, environmental pollution and global warming, severely increase the risk of extinction and population decline of this taxon. A key strategy for protecting reptiles’ biodiversity has been the creation and maintenance of protected areas. The focus of this work will be on the Auca Mahuida Natural Protected Area (AM), located in northern Patagonia Argentina. Here, we provide a checklist of reptiles’ species found along five years of field surveys made within the AM’ current limits. The effectiveness of the sampling effort was estimated and extrapolated based on rarefaction curves shown as the sample completeness curve. We recorded within AM' boundaries a total of 16 species of reptiles, 14 species of lizards, and two species of snakes. In relation to the completeness of our sampling, AM was well represented in our surveys (0.98 sample coverage). Regarding the results of this work, we can highlight the following reptile species as endemic to the region: Liolaemus crandalli, L. cyaneinotatus, L. sitesi, Phymaturus sitesi, and P. timi, indicating that the AM might indeed be isolated for many species, and that makes these environments vulnerable and vital for conservation.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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.
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