Spatial ecology of Sistrurus catenatus catenatus and Heterodon platirhinos in a rock-barren landscape
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Eastern Massasauga ('Sistrurus catenatus catentatus') and Eastern Hog-nosed Snake ('Heterodon platirhinos') are sympatric in the Georgian Bay area. However, 'S. catenatus' and ' H. platirhinos' differ in natural history characteristics such as foraging and reproductive mode. I hypothesised that the variability in natural history characteristics between 'S. catenatus' and ' H. platirhinos' would cause them to use space differently than each other. To evaluate space use, I radiotracked 34 'S. catenatus ' and 13 'H. platirhinos' from 2000 to 2004 at a single study site in a rock-barren landscape of the southern Canadian Shield. Concordant with predictions, 'H. platirhinos' traveled farther, moved more frequently, and with greater tortuousity than 'S. catenatus'. Evaluation of habitat use suggested that 'H. platirhinos' and ' S. catenatus' used habitats differently at different scales. ' Sistrurus catenatus' used wetland habitats more than 'H. platirhinos ', which used grass and sand habitats more. The demonstrated differences in the space use by 'S. catenatus' and 'H. platirhinos ' suggest that developments such as roads will impact each species differently. Developing mitigation strategies that address these interspecific differences will be necessary for conservation efforts to succeed.
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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) | 0.001 | 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) | 0.000 | 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".