Testate Amoebae Communities Sensitive to Soil Moisture in Mountain Fens
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Abstract
Minerotrophic peatlands found in mountain regions of the world are relatively widespread ecosystems that could be used as paleoecological and paleoclimatic archives. However, they have received much less attention than ombrotrophic peat bogs, resulting in limited information pertaining to their development, biodiversity, and functioning. Of particular interest is mountain fens microbial communities, which could potentially be used to reconstruct past hydrological changes. To this effect, a few studies from Europe have suggested that testate amoebae assemblages from fens could be used as proxies for past soil moisture. Here we contribute to this effort by providing a new study from a mountain fen located in the Sibbald Research Wetlands in the Rocky Mountains of Kananaskis Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Our goals are to (1) quantify the relationships between testate amoebae communities, measured environmental parameters (pH, water table depth, soil moisture, conductivity), and vegetation type; (2) identify the key controls on testate amoebae distribution, and (3) develop a transfer function to be used in mountain fens of the region and potentially beyond, given the cosmopolitan nature of many testate amoebae taxa.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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