Agricultural land-use change seasonally rewires stream food webs: a case study from headwater streams in the Lake Erie watershed
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Abstract
Human impacts, like agricultural land-use change, alter natural patterns of resource availability and consumer response through space and time threatening the stability of ecosystems. In streams, removal of riparian zones and nutrient loading through agriculture may alter seasonal asynchronous resource fluxes and lead to food web rewiring and stability loss. Here, we seasonally sampled three streams across an agricultural gradient to determine how agricultural land-use change rewires seasonal stream food web structures. We show that agricultural land-use change seasonally rewired trophic interactions through reduced terrestrial energy use and trophic position. Additionally, agricultural land-use change drove steeper biomass size spectrum slopes and shifted fish communities to high abundances of small individuals. Collectively, our results suggest agricultural land-use change may be homogenizing stream food webs towards productive, single-energy channel dominated webs with faster turnover rates. Theory predicts such changes are indicative of instability, suggesting agriculture may be destabilizing stream food webs. Importantly, our results indicate agricultural land-use strategies that aim to retain riparian zones and reduce nutrient run-off may be important for reducing potential destabilizing effects. As agriculture is expected to increase to support growing human populations, elucidating strategies to maintain resilient stream food webs in agricultural landscapes is essential.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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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