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Record W57136725 · doi:10.26076/8fa4-a53f

Some Aspects of Muskrat Ecology at Big Island Lake, Alberta

2021· article· en· W57136725 on OpenAlex
Roger G. Schmitke

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Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Commons - USU (Utah State University) · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEcology and biodiversity studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEcologyGeographyBiology

Abstract

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The untimely death brought to a stop the work on his Master of Science degree and a termination of a promising career in the conservation field. Drowned in the line of duty was Roger Schmitke on June 10, 1965, in the Redwater River near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Prior to his death, Roger had worked diligently on his research assignment and had collected all of the data deemed necessary for the completion of the thesis. Partial analysis of the data had been made. The present volume is an attempt to bring together his data and analyses for presentation to his graduate committee . It is understandably not in the form in which he meticulously would have presented it, but it does present the data on this important study. Many months of field research went into the project and additional time was spent in analysis of data. It was a pleasure to have been associated with Roger and his family during his academic career at Utah State University. His pleasing personality and professional approach to the problem of the class and field were always refreshing and stimulating. It is with regrets that we must present this work instead of having Roger do so himself. Wherever possible, the text was retained in the wording of Roger. Respectfully submitted,J. B. LowMajor Professor Abstract Annual productivity varied from 16.2 to 22.8 young per adult female based on placental scar counts. Summer juvenile mortality approximated 30 percent and annual mortality approximated 90 percent. Mortality of 90 percent each year resulted whether the population was trapped or not. Trapping took the place of other types of mortality. Adverse winter conditions were reflected in reduced muskrat body weights. Best quality furs were obtained in early winter - late October and November. Interspecific strife and food shortages appeared to be the most important mortality factors, although predation, movements, weather and parasites and diseases were known to have some adverse effect on the population. Most females produced two litters per season but some had three litters. Estimated density of 5.4 to 9.7 muskrats per acre was determined for the Big Island Lake marsh.

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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 categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.565
Threshold uncertainty score0.927

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 studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.174
Teacher spread0.162 · 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