Climate relationships and sub-ring parameters of four conifer species in the Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis describes the relationship between climate factors and sub-ring parameters for four conifers species of conifers in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. This region is of great interest to many researchers and land managers due to climate change and its impacts on wildfire intervals and ecosystem changes. Tree ring widths are often used to provide background information about climate. In this study, the aim is to identify how the sub-ring characteristics (earlywood and latewood) of different conifer species respond to climate records of temperature and precipitation. We used standard dendrochronological techniques to sample and analyze four conifer species from different habitat types. As well, we evaluated the utility of the program WinDENDRO to quickly and objectively determine measurements of earlywood and latewood width, and most importantly the boundary between them. Correlation functions indicated seasonal parameters of temperature and precipitation are best represented by sub-ring measurements of earlywood and latewood. These results suggest that a combination of different tree species and their sub-ring parameters has strong potential to reconstruct different temperature and precipitation parameters within the study area.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".