Potential ecological monitoring indicators and strategies for the Anguniaqvia niqiqyuam Marine Protected Area and a synopsis of available information
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Abstract
In 2016, the Anguniaqvia niqiqyuam Marine Protected Area (ANMPA) became the second marine protected area designated in Canada’s Arctic under the Oceans Act. The ANMPA encompasses marine habitat on the western shores of Darnley Bay near the community of Paulatuk, NT, in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. Ecological indicators to evaluate the status of the conservation objectives were selected by an expert panel, guided by the latest scientific knowledge for the area, and community priorities provided by the ANMPA Working Group. A three-tiered indicator concept was developed to ensure sufficient data are collected to link potential changes in valued upper-trophic level animals and their habitats to the drivers of change: (a) five indicators are recommended to provide background environmental context required to interpret change in biological indicators, (b) 11 indicators are recommended to monitor biological and food web integrity directly linked to the conservation objectives, and (c) two indicators are recommended to monitor current pressures and threats to the biological system, acknowledging that re-evaluation will be necessary on a regular basis. Information currently available to support each indicator is summarized, and key monitoring strategies and measurement parameters are proposed. Appendix C provides a summary table of recommended measurement parameters and considerations. In some cases, accessing data/information collected at a spatial scale larger than the ANMPA will be vital to increase the reach and contextual value of monitoring data. Most of the indicators can be monitored by community-based monitoring programs, a combination of inshore and offshore sampling, remote sensing, and/or partnering with established research and harvest monitoring programs to optimize the efficiency of data collection. In some cases, follow-on analyses of existing samples and data are required to establish baseline conditions. The information provided herein is an update to science advice previously provided by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and is intended to support the development of an ecological monitoring plan for the ANMPA through the ANMPA Working Group, Western Arctic MPA Steering Committee, and other relevant partner forums.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.011 | 0.011 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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; 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".