Bibliographic record
Abstract
The National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA) is a report on the status of South Africa’s biodiversity across terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine, and marine realms. The report synthesises the best available data on biodiversity in South Africa, in a format to support policy and environmental decision-making. The results of the NBA is utilised in reporting on South Africa’s commitments to several international multilateral environmental agreements such as the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A key focus of the report is two headline indicators on the status of species and ecosystems: Threat status, which tracks changes in species’ risk of extinction and ecosystems’ risk of collapse over time, and protection level, which measures the contribution of protected areas in meeting species and ecosystem conservation targets. The species protection level indicator is South Africa's domesticated version of the Species Protection Index, a component indicator for Target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.This report describes how protection level is calculated for plant species and covers topics such as data sources, data preparation, setting of species conservation targets, consideration of protected area effectiveness, and calculation of Protection Index time series.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.997 | 0.264 |
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.
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".