Relative abundance, habitat use, and breeding status of birds in Aulavik National Park, Banks Island, Northwest Territories
Bibliographic record
Abstract
During the summers of 1995 and 1996, we inventoried bird populations of Aulavik National Park (73°N, 119°W), located on northern Banks Island in Canada's Arctic Archipelago.Our study added four new species, bringing the total of bird species to 44 for Aulavik and 74 for Banks Island as a whole.We also documented 21 new breeding records in the park, and the known breeding distribution of Semipalmated Plover (Calidris pusilla), Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) and Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Tryngites subruficollis) were extended.Point-counts were carried out in three different study areas of the park and used to determine relative abundance for 13 species.Lapland Longspur (Calcarius lapponicus) was the most common species.Lapland Longspurs, Horned Larks (Eremophilia alpestris), Glaucous Gulls (Larus hyperboreus), and Black-bellied Plovers (Pluvialis squatarola) were significantly associated with a few different habitat types.No habitat type had notably more bird species as compared to the other types, with the exception of sparsely vegetated ground which supported fewer species.Field observations, lower average wind speed in hummocky tundra and the presence of a high number of owl castings and mammal scat in deep, wind-protected coulees suggested that both small and large birds as well as certain mammals seek out sheltered microhabitats during high winds.It is suggested that park operations should not interfere with the access that birds and other wildlife have to these potentially important microhabitats.
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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 |
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".