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Plant life forms in alpine ecosystems

2025· dissertation· cs· W7135738700 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Valerie Kolmanová

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Repository (National Repository of Grey Literature) · 2025
Typedissertation
Languagecs
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicBryophyte Studies and Records
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAlpine plantHabitatPlant lifeEcosystemAlpine climateBiodiversityDistribution (mathematics)BiosphereLatitude
DOInot available

Abstract

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Raunkiaer's life forms classify plants based on the position of their renewal tissues relative to the ground. The distribution of life forms on Earth varies with latitude from the Equator to the poles, determined by the different climatic conditions. The pattern of distribution of the life forms across various ecosystems on Earth mainly applies to lowlands, however. The alpine environment differs from the lowlands in many ways (temperature, pressure, precipitation). The aim of this thesis is to summarize the available information on the alpine environments across climatic zones and examine whether the life form distribution patterns observed in the lowlands can be found in the alpine habitats above the treeline. The thesis examines alpine environments of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, the Caucasus, the Zagros Mountain Range, the tropical Andes, and the Hawaiian archipelago. Based on the reviewed literature we conclude that hemicryptophytes dominate almost all of the examined alpine habitats across the climatic zones. Chamaephytes are also a very common alpine life form, geophytes and phanerophytes can be found in specific alpine habitats, although the latter only in the tropical mountains.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.182
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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