Exposing the elusive: Franklin’s ground squirrel (Poliocitellus franklinii) demography, nest relocation, and dam response to ectoparasitism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Franklin’s ground squirrels (Poliocitellus franklinii; FGS) are increasingly considered of conservation concern throughout much of their range, yet little is known about this species as compared to their congeners. The main objectives of this thesis were to (1) collate and summarize demographic and life-history data to present an up-to-date account of population characteristics for a FGS population near Delta Marsh, Manitoba, (2) document nest movements wherein female FGS relocate their nests and litter during the energetically demanding lactation period and to investigate proximate factors mediating movements, including intraspecific interaction, ectoparasite burden, and nest habitat associations, and, (3) investigate the influence of ectoparasite infestation on dam and litter attributes. Dams consistently relocated litters during lactation in response to conspecific nest discovery, ectoparasite pressure and habitat type. Relocations may compensate for major costs of ectoparasitism, as beyond the frequency of relocation, only litter sex ratio was influenced by ectoparasite burden in this study.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".