Current Status of the Spotted Turtle (Clemmys guttata) on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The last description of the abundance and distribution of Clemmys guttata (Spotted Turtle) on the island of Martha's Vineyard, MA, was published in 1976 by James Lazell. From 2020 to 2022, we surveyed wetlands with historic records or verified sightings of Spotted Turtles. We captured and marked 24 individuals in 1362 trap nights (0.018 spotted turtles/trap night). We identified 3 Spotted Turtle populations with 5–13 individuals, but only 1 population exhibited a variety of age and size classes among captures. Lazell noted this turtle species was uncommon in the 1970s, and our surveys indicate they may be even less common today, as we found the species at only 2 of the 4 sites Lazell surveyed. Considerable development and habitat fragmentation have degraded the landscape surrounding wetlands across the island in the last 30 years and sea-level rise threatens 2 populations, putting this elusive turtle at risk of local extinction.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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".