A Survey of Franklin's Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus franklinii) in\nEast-Central Illinois
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Franklin's ground squirrel, Spermophilusfranklinii (Sabine, 1822), is one of the larger members of the genus Spermophilus occurring in North America (Hall 1981).It is primarily an inhabitant of the northern Great Plains from east-central Alberta and southern Saskatchewan to Kansas and Missouri, but its range extends eastward through northern and central Illinois to northwestern Indiana (Hall 1981).It is a considered a characteristic species of tallgrass and mid-grass prairie (Jones et al. 1983(Jones et al. , 1985)).Prairie covered 60% of Illinois (mainly in the northern two-thirds of the state) at the time of European settlement, but more than 99% of the native prairie has been lost to agriculture and urbanization (Robertson and Schwartz 1994).Although there are historical records of Franklin's ground squirrel from numerous locations in northern and central Illinois (Hoffmeister 1989), recent information about its distribution and abundance in the state is limited (Lewis and Rongstad 1992).Some biologists have speculated that this species is becoming increasingly uncommon in the eastern portion of its range (Lewis and Rongstad 1992) and Johnson and Choromanski-Norris (1992) found that its range in Indiana has receded westward.Accordingly, Franklin's ground squirrel is listed as an endangered species in Indiana (Indiana Department of Natural Resources 1993) and is considered a species of special concern in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources 1993).A live-trapping survey was conducted during spring 1998 to investigate the current distribution and abundance of Franklin's ground squirrel in three counties (Champaign, Piatt, and Vermilion) in east-central Illinois for which there are historical records of this species.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".