Patterned rich fens in southeastern Yukon: comparisons with boreal and montane fens in Alberta
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Detailed descriptions of three patterned rich fens, located along the Hyland River, approximately 155 km north of the town of Watson Lake, are reported for the first time. Similar to rich fens farther south in boreal and montane Alberta, these fens are characterized by high species richness and a ground layer dominated by Scorpidium scorpioides and S. revolvens . Despite the similarities in dominant ground layer species, these northern cordilleran rich fens differ in water chemistry and in having a number of species characteristic of northern or coastal locations, and lack many of the characteristic rich fen species found to the south. Therefore, these Yukon rich fens represent a unique variation within rich fen peatlands and indicate that S. scorpioides and S. revolvens are not strictly confined to high Ca 2+ conditions. This distinct combination of water chemistry and plant composition not only sets these Yukon fens apart ecologically, but also underscores their importance as habitat for rare and specialized plant communities. Protecting these fens would ensure these distinctive wetlands continue to serve as refuges for species with specialized habitat requirements. Additionally, The locations of 425 patterned fens in the Yukon are documented using SPOT 5 imagery, ESRI world imagery, and Google Earth Pro. Less than 10 of these patterned fens have been visited and surveyed and little is known about their vegetation and chemistry.
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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".