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Record W7153693385

Does the Wing Molt Cause Nutritional Stress in Lesser Snow Geese?

2024· article· W7153693385 on OpenAlexaffabout
C. Davison Ankney

Bibliographic record

VenueDigital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida) · 2024
Typearticle
Language
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicPhysiological and biochemical adaptations
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWingSnowFight-or-flight responseHeat stressStress (linguistics)Starvation
DOInot available

Abstract

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To test the hypothesis that wing molt causes nutritional stress for geese and ducks, I investigated what effect wing molt has on nutrient reserves of adult Lesser Snow Geese (Chen caerulescens caerulescens).The study was done in 1971 and 1972 at the McConnell River (60ø50'N, 94ø25'W), Northwest Territories, Canada.Body weight, weight of body fat, dry weight of breast and leg muscle, and leg bone weight were used to index reserves.The data showed that these geese rely very little, if at all, on catabolism of body tissue to obtain nutrients for feather growth.Thus, I conclude that the molt does not cause nutritional stress for Lesser Snow Geese.I argue that this is predictable and suggest that it is true of other waterfowl.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.004
Threshold uncertainty score0.008

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

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

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 head0.020
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.170 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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