The spatiotemporal changes in fish and invertebrate community structure and habitat viability in the Yangtze Estuary
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Abstract
• MODC reflects the overall average oxygen demand level of the community. • AGIC, the ratio of habitat oxygen supply to community average demand, reflects habitat viability. • Seasonal differences in the Yangtze Estuary’s environment and community structure are significant, without notable interannual changes. • The habitat viability in the southern region of the Yangtze Estuary is lower than in the northern region. • Hypoxia-driven massive outbreaks of Harpadon nehereus and jellyfish occurred. Temperature and oxygen are fundamental environmental factors shaping community structure and are major climatic stressors for marine species globally, interacting with physiological traits of species to establish marine habitats. Periodic seasonal fluctuations in temperature and oxygen significantly influence the composition of community structures and biogeographic habitat viability. This study utilized two community-based indices, the Aerobic Growth Index of the Community (AGIC) and the Mean Oxygen Demand of the Community (MODC), to understand the roles of temperature and oxygen in shaping the community structure of benthic fish and invertebrates during the spring and autumn in the Yangtze Estuary and quantified habitat viability across different seasonal and spatial regions. We observed pronounced seasonal differences in the environmental and community structures of the Yangtze Estuary, though variations in habitat viability across seasons were minimal. Autumn communities demonstrated lower vulnerability and higher resilience to hypoxia. Despite this, from 2004 to 2022, the annual fluctuations in temperature, oxygen levels, and habitat viability were minimal, maintaining high levels overall, except in the spring of 2004. Additionally, influenced by the Taiwan Warm Current, the southern region of the Yangtze Estuary exhibited lower habitat viability compared to the northern region. Although AGIC and MODC, as two new ecological indicators, are limited by some uncertainties, it can still provide guidance for future conservation of estuarine ecosystems and sustainable utilization of fishery resources under the ongoing global oxygen crisis.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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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