A comparison of techniques for assessing amphibian assemblages on streams in the western boreal forest
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The western boreal forest of Canada is rapidly being altered by agriculture, forestry, and energy extraction.As part of the Alberta Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Program's effort to develop monitoring schemes for biota associated with streams, we compared the performance of four sampling techniques for amphibians (constrained visual searches, call surveys, pitfall traps, and above-ground funnel traps) in June through August along two low gradient streams.Of the four anuran amphibian species that occur in the region, we encountered adults and young-of-the-year of two, Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) and Western Toad (Bufo boreas), with the former species dominating our surveys.Given the time and equipment constraints imposed by the monitoring-program protocol, visual surveys proved to be the most effective technique (88.5% of amphibian records) for simply determining the presence of species.Pitfall traps performed better than funnel traps.Call surveys were the least effective technique principally because sampling took place after most breeding was completed.
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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 | 0.001 | 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) | 0.000 | 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.
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