Effects of Forest Characteristics and Landscape Configuration on Flying Squirrel Occurrence and Abundance in Rouge National Urban Park
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Wildlife conservation is a challenge in urban and peri-urban contexts, as anthropogenic land-use changes result in habitat loss, a reduction in forest patch size, and disconnected and isolated forest patches. As gliding arboreal mammals, flying squirrels are of particular concern in a landscape fragmentation context. Little is known about the distribution or abundance of flying squirrels in southern Ontario. Rouge National Urban Park, the only urban park in Canada, is located in southern Ontario along the Rouge watershed, and has had historical recordings of both southern and northern flying squirrel species. During May-August 2021, 19 sites were selected across the urban and peri-urban environments of Rouge Park, in which data were collected through small mammal trapping and habitat sampling. 7 mammal species were recorded, including both southern and northern flying squirrels. Habitat connectivity was a significant correlate of both flying squirrel species. Patch size was not significant, suggesting that forest fragments across the Rouge are well enough connected to support flying squirrel subpopulations through immigration and inter-patch colonization.
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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) | 0.001 | 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".