Comparison of spatial vegetation patterns following clearcuts and fires in Ontario's boreal forests
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Abstract
The goal of this study was to compare spatial vegetation patterns, based on Landsat TM \ndata, within post-clearcut and post-fire disturbances. Landscapes disturbed during the \nfour decades prior to the collection date of the Landsat data were used for comparison. \nThe disturbed landscapes were clustered according to their spatial edaphic factor \npatterns. A suite of indices representing patch geometry, contagion, and composition \nwere used to describe spatial vegetation and edaphic factor patterns. A general linear \nmodel was used to compare the effects of disturbance type, time since disturbance, and \nedaphic factors (clusters) on seven indices of spatial vegetation patterns. \nPatch size and patch density differed following clearcuts and fires. It appears that \nclearcuts may result in greater spatial heterogeneity among landcover types compared to \nfires. I propose that fires were more severe than clearcuts; thus, creating larger and \nfewer patches. Time since disturbance had the greatest effect on spatial vegetation \npatterns. One decade old disturbances had larger patches, higher contagion and fewer \nlandcover types than older disturbances. I suggest that spatial vegetation patterns \nreflected the destruction of overstory vegetation in one decade old disturbances, and \nrevegetation in the form of small patches in older disturbances. It appears that the effects \nof disturbance on spatial vegetation patterns are temporary. Edaphic factor patch shapes \nmay influence the shape of vegetation patches.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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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".