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Record W4410698340 · doi:10.26786/1920-7603(2025)844

Incorporating measures of data quality into plant-pollinator databases

2025· article· en· W4410698340 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jeff Ollerton, Christine Taliga, José Augusto Salim, Jorrit H. Poelen, Débora Pignatari Drucker

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Pollination Ecology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPlant and animal studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCHIST-ERAHORIZON EUROPE Framework ProgrammeNatural Resources Conservation ServiceNatural Environment Research CouncilFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloConsejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasAgenția Națională pentru Cercetare și DezvoltareUK Research and InnovationAgencia Nacional de Investigación y DesarrolloU.S. Department of Agriculture
KeywordsPollinatorData qualityQuality (philosophy)DatabaseBiologyGeographyComputer scienceEcologyPollenPollinationEngineeringOperations management

Abstract

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The development of large databases of plant-pollinator relationships poses both great opportunities and a particular problem for scientists and practitioners interested in these interactions. A major issue is that it is rare for measures of data quality to be included, in the sense of stating the evidence by which animal X has been determined to be a pollinator of plant Y. Adding such information to databases is vital if we are to fully understand the plant-pollinator relationships that they describe and address information gaps. We present some examples of data quality schemas that have been used in the past and then adopted by the Pollinators of Apocynaceae Database and the Database of Pollinator Interactions (DoPI), and how the forthcoming USDA-NRCS PLANTS database has tackled this question. In addition, we discuss the use of controlled vocabularies developed by the Brazilian Network of Plant-Pollinator Interactions (REBIPP), allied to a vocabulary based on the Darwin Core standard. It is our hope that the pollination ecology community will see the importance of these or other evaluations of data quality and adopt them accordingly.

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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)0.001
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 score0.318
Threshold uncertainty score0.434

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
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 science0.0000.000
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 head0.228
GPT teacher head0.346
Teacher spread0.118 · 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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