HERBIVORY AND DETRITIVORY BY THE LAND SNAIL CEPAEA NEMORALIS IN A TEMPERATE OLD FIELD
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The European banded wood snail (Cepaea nemoralis) has become widespread throughout the northeast United States and Canada, thriving in woodlands, roadsides, disturbed habitats, grasslands, and old fields. I used exclosure experiments to investigate the effect of snail herbivory on the biomass of Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense), a highly palatable forb species. I measured grass litter within exclosures to determine the effects o f detritivory on litter mass and used fecal analysis to determine the ratio of dead to live plant material in the diet. Snail exclosures had no effect on the total biomass of C. arvense or mass of grass litter. Live plants comprised approximately 10% of the overall snail diet with the remainder consisting of plant litter and soil. There was no clear seasonal trend in consumption of green material. However, snail herbivory increased with time from the last precipitation event, suggesting that snails consume live material to obtain water.
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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".