Beyond pests: intermittent rivers as habitats for Thysanoptera and Scolytinae
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Intermittent rivers are dynamic ecosystems increasingly affected by climate change which extends their dry phase and alters connectivity. Drying events create temporal dispersal corridors for terrestrial animals including pest taxa with potential agricultural and forestry impacts. We aimed to investigate dispersal of thrips (Thysanoptera) and bark (and ambrosia) beetles (Scolytinae) in the Mediterranean karst intermittent river Krčić, Croatia, during its dry phase by assessing spatiotemporal distribution across habitats, reaches and times of day as well as the wind effect on their activity density. Insects were sampled using cross-vane window traps in riparian and dry riverbed habitats at upper and lower reaches. Traps were emptied every 12 h over seven days in July 2021, with wind continuously monitored. Thysanoptera activity density was significantly higher in the upper reaches and during the day; light wind enhancing their dispersal, but they showed no clear habitat preference. Scolytinae preferred riparian habitat relative to the dry riverbed, likely due to differences in environmental conditions, such as temperature, light intensity and humidity. While these taxa are commonly studied in relation to their host plants, this study highlights their ecology, contributing to a better understanding of how prolonged dry periods in intermittent rivers affect biological communities.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".