The role of climate and hydrology fluctuations in shaping Northern Alaska plant community over the last three millennia
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Abstract
Rising temperatures observed in recent decades are driving changes in the development of wetland ecosystems in Arctic regions. Therefore, there is a need to assess the current ecological state of peatlands in the Arctic zone to predict their development in the future. This study uses high-resolution multi-proxy palaeoecological analyses (plant macrofossils, pollen, testate amoebae, peat stoichiometry and stable isotopes), supported by radiocarbon ( 14 C) and lead ( 210 Pb and 239+240 Pu), from two peat profiles covering the last 3200 and 1350 years, respectively, located on the northern part of Alaska. We aim to (i) determine the timing of the peat initiation process; ii) identify predominant peat-forming plant species; iii) reconstruct local and regional vegetation changes; iv) reconstruct hydrological changes and v) explore the role of climate-induced hydrological changes on the development of Arctic peat-forming and shrubs plant communities. Our studies revealed that 1) peat initiation occurred at ca. 1200 BCE and 350 BCE through a paludification process; 2) plant communities dominated by sedges and brown mosses played a key role as a main peat-forming species and remained stable for centuries; 3) changes in the composition of dominant peat-forming plants, from sedges and brown mosses, common in wet habitats to Sphagnum and brown mosses typical of drier habitats, were linked to climate warming between 1940 CE and 1960 CE and 4) the drop of the water table depth level during warm climate phases facilitated the spread of shrub and dwarf shrubs in the Arctic plain. Our study shows that the recent surge in woody vegetation exceeds any recorded expansion in the past three millennia, documenting the rapid changes occurring in Arctic plant communities from Northern Alaska.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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