Distribution, movements, morphology and reproduction in a population of Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii) in an unprotected landscape in southwestern Nova Scotia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Prior to 1996, the only known concentrations of Blanding's turtle in Nova Scotia occurred in Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site (KNP). In 1996, a campaign based on information posters and surveys was initiated to enlist the public's help in locating turtles in unprotected landscapes. The successful campaign increased the known range of Blanding's turtle in Nova Scotia and helped to identify the first known population outside the Park, at McGowan Lake. Distribution, movements, morphology and reproduction in this population were studied from 1997-2001 by live-trapping, visual sampling and radiotelemetry. This population differs surprisingly from the KNP population: at McGowan Lake most nests occur inland, often on slate outcrops, rather than on lakeshore beaches; nesting effort is apparently increased, with females making a high number of unsuccessful nest attempts; home ranges are small, with dense seasonal aggregations in summer drought refuges and overwintering locations that probably increase vulnerability; adults are smaller and females lay smaller clutches. These differences illustrate that conservation and research must be at an appropriate scale to accommodate local variability of this species in Nova Scotia.
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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 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".