Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregional assessment and partnership initiative: final report - November 2006
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Grasslands are one of the most imperiled ecosystems in North America.The Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion falls within the globally classified Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands.Grasslands are one of the least protected yet most converted habitat types on Earth.Grassland birds have exhibited the most severe and extensive declines of any other class of North American species.Species complexes of large grazing animals have been greatly altered in almost all temperate grasslands.For example, domestic cattle have replaced bison as the dominant herbivore on the Great Plains.Likewise, populations of several other key prairie species, such as the mountain plover and black-tailed prairie dog, have declined.Increasing human population and associated impacts require a coordinated, proactive approach to conserving the shortgrass prairie.Due in a large part to land-use patterns and past stewardship practices on private and public lands, approximately 50% of the ecoregion remains in a predominantly natural condition.As a result, the ecoregion presents a significant opportunity to conserve remaining examples of intact shortgrass prairie landscapes. Central Shortgrass Prairie EcoregionThe Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion lies in the western portion of the Great Plains of North America.It encompasses approximately 56 million acres, and includes parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming.Major rivers within this ecoregion include the Platte, Arkansas, Canadian, Republican, and Cimarron.The majority (92%) of the ecoregion is privately owned; 5% is state-owned, and 3% is in federal ownership. Collaborative Conservation AssessmentA diverse partnership of federal and state agencies, as well as non-governmental organizations, conducted a collaborative conservation assessment to set priorities within the Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion over a two-year period (and revise an earlier assessment completed in 1998).
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".