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Record W4409971726 · doi:10.3159/torrey-d-24-00042.1

Notable plant rarities of northern New York alvar landscapes

2025· article· en· W4409971726 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bruce Gilman

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBotany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsArchaeologyGeography

Abstract

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Alvar landscapes occur in the glaciated region of New York where horizontally bedded limestones are covered by little or no soil. Major sites are found along the eastern end of Lake Ontario northwest of Watertown and underlain by the Black River Group limestones. They are naturally open landscapes with scant tree cover often restricted to bedrock crevices. New York alvars are home to state-rare elements, including seven natural plant communities and 57 rare plant species. Floristic assemblages are diverse and include several disjunct species with northern, southern and midwestern (prairie) affinities. The mosaic of distinctive plant communities is adapted to extreme environmental conditions including seasonal fluctuation in moisture and temperature, variable shallow soil depths, localized runoff patterns, and cryopedogenic processes. They are also subject to recurring human disturbances such as fuelwood and fence post cutting, accidental fires, and introduction of drought tolerant nonnative species. Combined, these factors support a surprisingly high biodiversity in alvar landscapes.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.206
Threshold uncertainty score0.291

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.185 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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