String and net-patterned salt marshes: rare landscape elements of boreal Canada
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Abstract
A rare form of wetland, string and net-patterned salt marshes, exist in and near Wood Buffalo National Park in northeastern Alberta and the adjacent Northwest Territories.In two wetlands (Benchmark and Lobstick creeks) examined in August 2001, a benthic blue-green algae/diatom community covered flark bottoms.Calamagrostis stricta (Narrow Reed Grass) and Triglochin maritima (Seaside Arrow-grass) at Benchmark Creek and Atriplex subspicata (Saltbush), Puccinellia nuttalliana (Nuttall's Salt-Meadow Grass), and Triglochin palustris (Slender Arrow-grass) at Lobstick Creek dominated the strings.Hordeum jubatum (Foxtail Barley), Puccinellia nuttalliana, Spergularia marina (Salt-marsh Sand Spurry), and Triglochin palustris were common to both wetlands.Other noteworthy plant occurrences included Aster ericoides (Tufted White Prairie Aster), A. pauciflorus (Few-flowered Aster), Carex mackenziei (Mackenzie's Sedge), Glaux maritima (Sea Milkwort), Monolepis nuttalliana (Spear-leaved Goosefoot), Plantago eriopoda (Saline Plantain), P. maritima (Sea-side Plantain), Scirpus paludosus (Prairie Bulrush), and Suaeda calceoliformis (Western Sea-blite).The wetlands observed were associated with valleys.In order to form, they may require a gentle elevational gradient for lateral flow of saline surface water.The patterns may be related also to soil processes involving excessive soil salts.Soil augering revealed an insufficient amount of peat for the sites to be classified as fens; soils appear to classify as Rego Humic Gleysols.These rare wetlands require study of their mode of formation, distribution, and their biota.I suggest a new type designation: interior patterned saline marsh.
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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
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| 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) | 0.002 | 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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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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