Survey of <i>Melanoplus gaspesiensis</i> and other alpine Acrididae (Orthoptera) on four summits of Gaspésie National Park, Québec, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Alpine tundra areas are threatened by anthropogenic climate change. They are also often represented as hotspots of endemism. Studying the insect communities associated with these habitats is therefore highly relevant. Melanoplus gaspesiensis Vickery is a grasshopper species known for its extremely limited distribution; it is considered endemic to Mont Albert, on the Gaspé Peninsula, Québec, Canada. Given its extremely limited distribution and with its habitat being particularly sensitive to climate change, the species is likely to soon be considered “at risk” at both the provincial and national levels. In order to confirm the current distribution of M. gaspesiensis, we sampled Acrididae on four alpine summits of the Gaspé Peninsula. Four species of Acrididae were captured. Almost 85% of the captured specimens were M. gaspesiensis, all of which were captured on Mont Albert. Our data are thus coherent with the species being endemic to that summit. The unique geology of Mont Albert (serpentine) may explain why M. gaspesiensis appears to be restricted to this one summit.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".