Nesting Dynamics in Space and Time in a Population Complex of Blanding's Turtle in Nova Scotia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on a long-term dataset, this paper is part of a series exploring the influence of environmental spatial and temporal heterogeneity on reproduction, recruitment, survival, and movement of Emydoidea blandingii (Blanding's Turtle) in Nova Scotia, at the northeastern limit of the species' range. This population complex comprises 4 geographically discrete and genetically distinguishable subpopulations that vary in morphology, reproduction, and behavior. This variation may reflect different local environments and evolutionary histories and underscores the importance of understanding ecological scale(s) to ensure that we adopt appropriate management scale(s) for this endangered population. Here we compare clutch size, nesting frequency, dates of nesting and emergence, incubation period, hatching success, and recruitment over 20 years of nest monitoring and protection between 3 of the 4 subpopulations. While nesting frequency was similar across all 3, dates of nesting and emergence, incubation period, and hatching success varied. Clutch size varied with both body size and subpopulation. Despite considerable interannual variation, average dates of nesting and emergence in the 3 subpopulations over the 20-year period were ∼6–10 days earlier and ∼12–18 days earlier, respectively, consistent with a climate change-induced signal.
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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) | 0.000 | 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".