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Record W4391502579 · doi:10.5962/p.353869

Mortality of Black Bears, Ursus americanus, associated with elevated train trestles

2003· article· en· W4391502579 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Kyle R. Van Why, Michael J. Chamberlain

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Canadian Field-Naturalist · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAnimal Ecology and Behavior Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUrsusGeographyUrsus maritimusDemographyZoologyEcologyBiologySociology

Abstract

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Van Why, Kyle R., and Michael J. Chamberlain.2003.Mortality of Black Bears, Ursus americanus, associated with elevated train trestles.Canadian Field-Naturalist 117(1): 113-115.The Louisiana Black Bear (Ursus americanus luteolus), a threatened species in the United States, inhabits the Tensas and Atchafalaya River Basins of Louisiana.These basins contain three breeding populations, but dispersal among the populations is limited due to habitat fragmentation and a lack of corridors.Highways and railroads bisect the few available corridors, and mortalities occur as a result of collisions with vehicles.Waterways and flood control structures used as travel corridors by bears are crossed by road and rail bridges creating the potential for additional mortalities.We documented two mortalities associated with elevated railroad spans.Both occurred along the same span of track located within the Morganza Spillway in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, and both mortalities were a result of the bear falling from the span or being struck by a train while crossing the trestle.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.053
Threshold uncertainty score0.106

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.023
GPT teacher head0.248
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2003
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