323 Chapter 13 Insects at Risk in the Prairie Region
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Abstract
Abstract. This chapter describes and analyses insects at risk in the Great Plains grasslands in the prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and the Peace River region in British Columbia. Over the last century and a half, most of the native grasslands in this region have been replaced by intensive agricultural production or impacted by livestock, both activities hugely affecting insect populations. In addition to the relicts of grassland, “non-grassland ” habitats exist within the region, including dunes, badlands, and riparian areas. These isolated habitats and their specific species, including insects, are an important part of the regional biodiversity. At the national, regional, and provincial levels of government, and among other conservation organizations, a large number of programs and legislation are aimed at protecting species at risk, including insects. These efforts are reviewed in this chapter. Résumé. Le présent chapitre décrit et analyse les espèces d’insectes en péril dans les grandes plaines des provinces des Prairies (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) et dans la région de la rivière de la Paix, en Colombie-Britannique. Au cours des 150 dernières années, la plupart des prairies naturelles de cette région ont été remplacées par des zones d’agriculture intensive ou altérées par l’élevage du bétail, et ces changements ont eu un effet considérable sur les populations d’insectes. Outre les vestiges de la prairie naturelle, il existe dans la région d’autres types d’habitats comme les dunes, les bad-lands et les zones riveraines. Ces habitats isolés et les espèces particulières qu’elles abritent — y compris les insectes — constituent un élément important de la biodiversité régionale. Beaucoup de programmes et de lois mis en vigueur par les pouvoirs publics nationaux, régionaux et provinciaux et par les organisations de conservation visent à protéger les espèces en péril, y compris les espèces d’insectes. Le présent chapitre évalue ces efforts.
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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
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| 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 | 0.000 | 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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
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".