Road Salt Impacts Freshwater Zooplankton at Concentrations\nbelow Current Water Quality Guidelines
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Widespread use of NaCl for road deicing\nhas caused increased chloride\nconcentrations in lakes near urban centers and areas of high road\ndensity. Chloride can be toxic, and water quality guidelines have\nbeen created to regulate it and protect aquatic life. However, these\nguidelines may not adequately protect organisms in low-nutrient, soft\nwater lakes such as those underlain by the Precambrian Shield. We\ntested this hypothesis by conducting laboratory experiments on six <i>Daphnia</i> species using a soft water culture medium. We also\nexamined temporal changes in cladoceran assemblages in the sediments\nof two small lakes on the Canadian Shield: one near a highway and\nthe other >3 km from roads where salt is applied in the winter.\nOur\nresults showed that <i>Daphnia</i> were sensitive to low\nchloride concentrations with decreased reproduction and increased\nmortality occurring between 5 and 40 mg Cl<sup>–</sup>/L. Analysis\nof cladoceran remains in lake sediments revealed changes in assemblage\ncomposition that coincided with the initial application of road salt\nin this region. In contrast, there were no changes detected in the\nremote lake. We found that 22.7% of recreational lakes in Ontario\nhave chloride concentrations between 5 and 40 mg/L suggesting that\ncladoceran zooplankton in these lakes may already be experiencing\nnegative effects of chloride.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.006 |
| 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) | 0.165 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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 it