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Record W4411751864 · doi:10.7818/ecos.2954

Cross-biome scale data of summer bird assemblages across various habitat types in Alberta, western Canada

2025· article· en· W4411751864 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueEcosistemas · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicSpecies Distribution and Climate Change
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiomeHabitatGeographyScale (ratio)Physical geographyEcologyEnvironmental scienceCartographyEcosystemBiology

Abstract

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Alberta covers diverse types of ecosystems including boreal forests, Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, as well as temperate grasslands in western Canada. The location of Alberta at the convergence of the Pacific and Central Flyways highlights its importance for bird conservation. However, recent climate change is altering vegetation, reducing wetlands, which can influence habitat niche availability of birds. While there are certain efforts of bird monitoring, public data are often limited to checklists or species presence, community-level datasets of birds collected consistently across biomes is rarely available. Here I conducted large-scale summer surveys of breeding birds across Alberta’s six major ecoregions (Northern Rockies conifer forests, Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests, Mid-Canada Boreal Plains forests, Canadian Aspen forests and parklands, Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands, and Northern Shortgrass prairie). These surveys span woodlands, wetlands, grasslands, farmlands, and urban areas, providing a comprehensive bird species inventory. This preliminary dataset establishes a baseline for understanding avian biodiversity across Alberta and supports future research and conservation strategies aimed at mitigating climate-induced habitat changes.

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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 categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.250
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

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 science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.284 · 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