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Record W4410315829 · doi:10.1038/s41597-025-05133-2

A beneficial arthropod dataset for agricultural landscapes in Western Canada, and adjacent mountain ecosystems

2025· article· en· W4410315829 on OpenAlexafffundabout
Abigail Cohen, Lincoln R. Best, Danielle J. Clake, D. R. Edwards, Michael C. Gavin, Sarah A. Johnson, Jennifer Leigh Retzlaff, Samuel V.J. Robinson, Jess Vickruck, Paul Galpern

Bibliographic record

VenueScientific Data · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEcology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
Canadian institutionsAgriculture and Agri-Food CanadaDucks Unlimited CanadaCalgary Laboratory ServicesSimon Fraser UniversityUniversity of Calgary
FundersAlberta InnovatesAlberta Innovates Bio SolutionsCanadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaAlberta Canola Producers CommissionTD Friends of the Environment FoundationInstitute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, Ducks Unlimited CanadaAlberta Biodiversity Monitoring InstituteSaskatchewan Canola Development CommissionAlberta Conservation Association
KeywordsArthropodAgricultureEcosystemGeographyEcologyEcosystem servicesAgroforestryEnvironmental resource managementBiologyEnvironmental science

Abstract

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One of the largest drivers of global biodiversity trends is land use change and habitat loss. Through several studies of beneficial arthropods, we have compiled a spatially extensive passive-sampling arthropod dataset for Western Canada focused on landscape diversity. This dataset, collected from 2015-2019, consists of more than 200,000 specimens, five arthropod orders, and 26 families of either pollinators (Hymenoptera, Diptera) or natural enemies of pests (Coleoptera, Araneae, Opiliones). In the research that collectively makes up this dataset, there are 409 sampling sites in two focal areas: the Canadian Rockies (n = 70) and the agriculturally intense Canadian prairies (n = 339). Sampling in the montane region focused on Bombus species, while both pollinators and natural enemies were sampled in the prairies. Within the prairie region, there was also a focus on non-crop habitat that occurs within or adjacent to the annual crop fields and rangelands that dominate the region. This data can be used to investigate beneficial insect abundance and richness over a gradient of elevation, land cover, landscape diversity and climate.

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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)0.000
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 score0.919
Threshold uncertainty score0.929

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
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 science0.0000.001
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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.250
Teacher spread0.238 · 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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