A Paleolimnological Investigation into the Ecological Impacts of Permafrost Thaw Slumping on Cladocerans (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) in the Mackenzie Delta Region (Northwest Territories, Canada)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis explores the ecological impacts of retrogressive thaw slumping on cladocerans (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) in Mackenzie Delta Region (Northwest Territories, Canada) lakes using paleolimnological techniques to answer the following questions: 1) Does thaw slumping increase UV exposure of Chydorus? 2) Are Daphnia absent in slump-affected lakes? I reconstructed UV exposure of Chydorus in a reference and slump-affected lake by measuring carapace absorbances at UV wavelengths. Carapace absorbances in the slump-affected lake were comparable to the reference lake, indicating Chydorus were not exposed to more UV radiation than in the reference lake. I also examined Daphnia ephippia in surface and pre-1850 sediments from 7 slump-affected and 7 unimpacted lakes, to confirm a 2017 zooplankton survey observation that Daphnia were absent in slump-affected lakes. Daphnia were not observed in slump-impacted lake sediments; however low sediment volumes likely underestimate Daphnia presence. My research provides new information on zooplankton biogeography in the Mackenzie Delta region.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 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".