Eskers and Outwash Plains: Skeins of Connectivity in the Liard Basin
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Glaciofluvial landforms are frequent in the Liard Basin, an intermontane plain in the northern Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) region straddling 60º N in southeast Yukon-northeast British Columbia. They cover little area but are nevertheless critical components of the linear infrastructure of regional biodiversity, part of the surficial geological template that underlies patterns of rare plant species and community occurrence as well as patterns of movement and use by vertebrates. Two common glaciofluvial landforms are eskers and outwash plains. Eskers are linear and often wavy ridges of rapidly drained sand, gravel, and cobbles deposited by fast streams that flowed under the glacial ice. Outwash plains are broad, tabular landforms of similar materials deposited beyond rapidly melting glacier fronts. On occasion, outwash plains are pitted by kettle holes, depressions formed by melting remnant ice. In the largely forested landscapes of the Liard Basin, glaciofluvial deposits form among the driest habitats, often are lightly timbered or non-forested, and are good sites for regionally rare or uncommon plant species and communities. They are also
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".