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Record W4411198294 · doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e43489

Will climate change affect the quality of maple syrup?

2025· article· en· W4411198294 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

VenueHeliyon · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicPlant-Derived Bioactive Compounds
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
FundersEnvironment and Climate Change Canada
KeywordsAffect (linguistics)MapleClimate changeMaple syrup urine diseaseQuality (philosophy)ChemistryEnvironmental sciencePsychologyBotanyBiologyPhysicsBiochemistryEcology

Abstract

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Climate change poses challenges to forests and agricultural systems, including the maple syrup sector, affecting not only the quantities produced, but also the quality of the product. The quality of maple syrup is influenced by factors related to the environment, tree biology, microorganisms, sap composition, and anthropological factors, including harvest methods. This study attempts to project the effect of climate change in three different climate scenarios on the quality of maple syrup by modeling a transition point in dormancy release, which is associated with the composition of maple water/sap and syrup quality. Sap flow season was predicted by assuming the flow parameters of two harvest methods, gravity and vacuum collection. For some parameters, the difference between the collection methods was similar or larger in size to the projected impact of climate change, demonstrating the importance of technology. Furthermore, projections indicated that climate change could increase the opportunity to collect maple water, which is associated with high-quality syrup, by altering the timing of dormancy release and bud break. However, the effects vary between the harvest methods, with a greater influence on gravity collection. Consequently, although maple syrup production may decrease due to climate change, the biological response of maple trees could help mitigate this loss by reducing the likelihood of producing atypical and nonconforming products. Therefore, adapted collection practices could help maple syrup producers reduce the impact of climate change on their production.

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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: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.113
Threshold uncertainty score0.384

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 science0.0000.000
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 head0.047
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.274 · 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