cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3xsj3txgz
title: A small vocal repertoire during the breeding season expresses complex behavioral motivations and individual signature in the Common Coot

description: Background: Although acoustic communication plays an essential role in the
 social interactions of Rallidae, our knowledge of how Rallidae encode
 diverse types of information using simple vocalizations is limited. We
 recorded and examined the vocalizations of a Common Coot (Fulica atra)
 population during the breeding season to test the hypotheses that 1)
 different call types can be emitted under different behavioral contexts,
 and 2) variation in the vocal structure of a single call type may be
 influenced both by behavioral motivations and individual signature. We
 measured a total of 61 recordings of 30 adults while noting the behavioral
 activities in which individuals were engaged. We compared several acoustic
 parameters of the same call type emitted under different behavioral
 activities to determine how frequency and temporal parameters changed
 depending on behavioral motivations and individual differences. Results:
 We found that adult Common Coots had a small vocal repertoire, including 4
 types of call, composed of a single syllable that was used during 9 types
 of behaviors. The 4 calls significantly differed in both frequency and
 temporal parameters and can be clearly distinguished by discriminant
 function analysis. Minimum frequency of fundamental frequency (F0min) and
 duration of syllable (T) contributed the most to acoustic divergence
 between calls. Call a was the most commonly used (in 8 of the 9 behaviors
 detected), and maximum frequency of fundamental frequency (F0max) and
 interval of syllables (TI) contributed the most to variation in call a.
 Duration of syllable (T) in a single call a can vary with different
 behavioral motivations after individual vocal signature being controlled.
 Conclusions: These results demonstrate that several call types of a small
 repertoire, and a single call with function-related changes in the
 temporal parameter in Common Coots could potentially indicate various
 behavioral motivations and individual signature. This study advances our
 knowledge of how Rallidae use “simple” vocal systems to express diverse
 motivations and provides new models for future studies on the role of
 vocalization in avian communication and behavior.
description: The datasets were first published in the Figshare
 repository [https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.15085758.v1].
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gmsbcc2nt
title: Fecal egg counts for Kinnaura livestock and Asiatic Ibex in Pin Valley India

description: Disease cross-transmission between wild and domestic ungulates can have
 negative impacts on agricultural economies and wildlife conservation.
 Assessing how to reduce these impacts is key to maintaining people’s
 livelihoods while also conserving wild ungulate populations. In the
 trans-Himalayan region of Pin valley, migratory flocks of sheep and goats
 share pastures seasonally with the resident wild ungulate, Asiatic ibex
 (Capra sibirica), leading to the possibility of disease
 cross-transmission. We focused our work on gastro-intestinal nematode
 (GINs) as they are common determinants of health and fitness in wild and
 domestic ungulates. Using a parasite life cycle model that incorporated
 host movements and the effects of weather on infective larval
 availability, we investigated the transmission dynamics and evaluated
 potential interventions to attenuate infection pressure for both, the
 livestock and ibex. We found that although ibex used the pastures
 year-round, parasite eggs which they shed only contributed to infective
 larvae on pastures during the summer. Migratory livestock enter the Pin
 pastures around day 152 (i.e. 1st June) and subsequently contribute eggs
 and hence infective larvae onto pasture. Migratory livestock were
 predicted to contribute the majority of infective larvae onto shared
 pastures, driving infections in both livestock and ibex. Our model
 predicts that any amount of anti-parasitic treatment of migratory
 livestock resulted in some reduction in infection pressure, but we found a
 c.30 day intervention towards the end of the livestock’s time in Pin had
 the highest impact, and is likely to be effective in reducing GIN burdens
 in both domestic and wild hosts. Our study provides a transferable
 multi-pronged approach and an adaptable predictive model to investigate
 parasite transmission in multi-use landscapes, including those with
 migratory hosts. We provide a robust approach for hypothesis-testing and
 intervention design which can serve the dual purpose of conserving wild
 ungulates and protecting herders’ livelihoods.
DOI: 10.57841/casdc.0007109
title: 全自主移动操作机器人实验数据
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4xgxd259k
title: Data for: The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna extinction in Eurasia by Mondanaro et al.

description: This dataset provides the complete list of data and necessary information
 in order to reproduce all the analyses performed in the paper:
 "Mondanaro, A., Di Febbraro, M., Melchionna, M., Maiorano, L., Di
 Marco, M., Edwards, N.R., Holden, P.B., Castiglione, S., Rook, L., Raia,
 P. (2021) The role of habitat fragmentation in Pleistocene megafauna
 extinction in Eurasia. Ecography, online version" The idea that than
 several small, rather than a single large, habitat areas, should hold the
 highest total species richness (the so-called SLOSS debate) brings into
 question the importance of habitat fragmentation to extinction risk. SLOSS
 studies are generally addressed over a short time scale, potentially
 ignoring the long-term dimension of extinction risk. Here, we provide the
 first long-term evaluation of the role of habitat fragmentation in species
 extinction, focusing on 22 large mammal species that lived in Eurasia
 during the last 200,000 years. By combining species distribution models
 and landscape pattern analysis, we compared temporal dynamics of habitat
 spatial structure between extinct and extant species, estimating size,
 number, and degree of geographical isolation of their suitable habitat
 patches. Our results evidenced that extinct mammals went through
 considerable habitat fragmentation during the last glacial period and
 started to fare worse than extant species from about 50 ka. In particular,
 our modelling effort constrains the fragmentation of habitats into a
 narrow time window, from 46 to 36 kilo years ago, surprisingly coinciding
 with known extinction dates of several megafauna species. Landscape
 spatial structure was the second most important driver affecting megafauna
 extinction risk (ca. 38% importance), after body mass (ca. 39%) and
 followed by dietary preferences (ca. 20%). Our results indicate a major
 role played by landscape fragmentation on extinction. Such evidence
 provides insights on what might likely happen in the future, with climate
 change, habitat loss, and fragmentation acting as the main forces exerting
 their negative effects on biodiversity.
description: species_status.xlsx<br>         Variable list<br>   
      status: species status (i.e. extinct/extant)<br>       
  species: taxonomical definition <br>
 Traits.xlsx<br>         Variable list<br>         Binomial:
 taxonomical definition<br>         Mass.g: body mass in
 grams<br>         Diet.Graminoids: prevalence of graminoids in the
 diet of a given species (i.e. from 0 to 3) according to Lundgren et al.,
 Scientific Data, 2021. <br>         Diet.Browse.Fruit: prevalence of
 fruits and browse plants in the diet of a given species (i.e. from 0 to 3)
 according to Lundgren et al., Scientific Data, 2021.<br>       
  Diet.Meat: prevalence of meat in the diet of a given species (i.e. from 0
 to 3) according to Lundgren et al., Scientific Data, 2021.<br>
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h44j0zpkq
title: Genomic prediction in the wild: a case study in Soay sheep

description: Genomic prediction, the technique whereby an individual’s genetic
 component of their phenotype is estimated from its genome, has
 revolutionised animal and plant breeding and medical genetics. However,
 despite being first introduced nearly two decades ago, it has hardly been
 adopted by the evolutionary genetics community studying wild organisms.
 Here, genomic prediction is performed on eight traits in a wild population
 of Soay sheep. The population has been the focus of a &gt;30 year
 evolutionary ecology study and there is already considerable understanding
 of the genetic architecture of the focal Mendelian and quantitative
 traits. We show that the accuracy of genomic prediction is high for all
 traits, but especially those with loci of large effect segregating. Five
 different methods are compared, and the two methods that can accommodate
 zero-effect and large-effect loci in the same model tend to perform best.
 If the accuracy of genomic prediction is similar in other wild
 populations, then there is a real opportunity for pedigree-free molecular
 quantitative genetics research to be enabled in many more wild
 populations; currently the literature is dominated by studies that have
 required decades of field data collection to generate sufficiently deep
 pedigrees. Finally, some of the potential applications of genomic
 prediction in wild populations are discussed.
description: The dataset describes SNP genotype and phenotype information,
 provided in Plink binary format. The data were collected from a wild
 population of Soay sheep, as part of a long-term study that has been
 running since 1985. SNP data are from the Illumina Ovine SNP50 beadchip
 array. Descriptions of the file contents are available as a readme
 document.
description: Users are strongly advised to contact the corresponding author
 (j.slate@sheffield.ac.uk), for further details on the long-running St
 Kilda Soay sheep project and the methods used in the field and
 laboratory.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vx0k6djs2
title: The coordination between leaf and fine root litter decomposition and the difference of their controlling factors

description: Aim: As the two largest components of plant detritus input, leaf and root
 litter together determines ecosystem vegetation turnover and nutrient
 cycling rates. However, it remains unknown the similarities and
 differences between the controlling factors for their decomposition. We
 evaluated the relationship between leaf and fine root litter decomposition
 across biomes, and analyzed how litter traits, climate, soil conditions
 and decomposers shape their relationship. Location: Global. Time Period:
 1984–2020. Major Taxa Studied: Vascular plant. Methods: We collected 352
 paired leaf and fine root decomposition rates (k values) and ancillary
 traits, climate, soil condition and decomposer abundance data from 88
 sites spanning the major global biomes. Boosted regression trees (BRTs)
 were applied to partition the factors that control root and leaf
 decomposition rates. Results: Averaged across all biomes, leaf
 litter decomposes significantly faster (kleaf=0.72) than fine root
 (kroot=0.42). The BRTs indicated that plant traits best explained the
 variance in both leaf and root litter decomposition. The key chemical
 traits of leaf litter and fine root, including C:N, [P], N:P, [lignin],
 [cellulose], [NSCs] and [tannins], were positively correlated. Therefore,
 leaf and fine root k values were positively correlated within and across
 biomes, even after removing the influence of climate, soil conditions and
 decomposers. However, climate and decomposers had different impacts on
 leaf and fine root decomposition. Climate induced a greater impact on fine
 root litter decomposition, whereas decomposers had a greater influence on
 leaf litter decomposition. Main Conclusions: Our finding indicates that
 plants evolve a coordinated nutrient supply and demand strategy. The high
 nutrient demand plants produce labile leaf and fine root litter, which
 decompose fast to meet their high nutrient requirements. However, leaf and
 fine root decomposition are also mediated by different combinations of
 trait, climate, soil condition and decomposer factors, which weakens the
 coordination between leaf and fine root decomposition.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vhhmgqntq
title: Greater reproductive assurance of asexual plant compared to sexual relative in a low density sympatric population – experimental evidence for pollen limitation

description: This dataset contains data from a common
 garden experiment described in the paper: “Mráz P,
 Mrázová V. 2021. Greater reproductive assurance of asexual plant compared
 to sexual relative in a low density sympatric population – experimental
 evidence for pollen limitation. Journal of Evolutionary Ecology
 ”.  We compared the level and stability of reproductive assurance
 between sexual self-incompatible and asexual autonomously apomictic plants
 of Hieracium alpinum (Asteraceae) cultivated in a sympatric low-density
 population with two levels of spatial clumping of sexual plants. Overall,
 we found that the realized seed set (i.e. proportion of well developed
 seeds per capitulum) of asexuals was ca. 3-times greater than that of
 sexuals (83% versus 27%), while the variance of this trait expressed as
 coefficient of variation was ca. 4-times smaller in asexuals compared to
 sexuals (19% versus 83%). Solitary sexual plants had more than 2-times
 lower realized seed set when compared to clumps composed of two spatially
 close (20-30 cm) sexual plants (13% versus 34%). Our study
 provides experimental evidence for benefit of uniparental reproduction of
 asexuals in a sympatric situation when the availability of mates is
 limited. This, together with unpredictability of pollinator environment
 could provide autonomous apomicts with an ultimate demographic superiority
 during colonization reflected in geographical parthenogenesis observed in
 this species.
description: The dataset was
 collected during a common garden experimet in two private gardens in
 Mnichovice, Czech Republic and has been analysed by a series of linear
 models and linear mixed effect models. For the details see the paper
 published in Journal of Evolutionary
 Biology.
description: The csv file contains
 a readme file with explanations of each of the variables in the dataset
 and two metadata files with measurements and data with geographical
 positions of the clumps of plants. Information on how the measurements
 were done can be found in the associated manuscript referenced
 above.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mcvdnck1s
title: International media coverage of the Bolivian jaguar trade

description: The trade in jaguar body parts is viewed as an alarming threat to the
 jaguar, and there is the assumption that Chinese demand is driving the
 trade. However, there has been little analysis of the discourses around
 the trade both with respect to the Chinese public, internationally and in
 source countries. We analysed 298 media articles in Chinese, English and
 Spanish languages from 2010 to 2019, to understand the disparities in
 reporting of this jaguar trade and what impact they would have for jaguar
 conservation. Temporal analysis showed that this trade did not receive
 global media attention until 2018, despite having taken place for a couple
 of years. Only four (teeth, skin, head and claws) out of the 15 body parts
 reported to have been traded had evidence of trade based on seizures.
 Jaguars were viewed positively, while the experiences of local people who
 suffer losses from coexisting with jaguars were rarely captured. The claim
 that the trade was Chinese-driven was strongly and positively associated
 with whether seizure and arrest evidence was presented in an article,
 though articles held different views on if Chinese companies were
 involved. English and Spanish language articles stated that traditional
 Chinese medicine was the main use of the jaguar body parts and were more
 likely to mention that this trade was Chinese-driven; while journalistic
 investigations and narratives from within China were missing. This
 research highlights the evidence gap with respect to media coverage of the
 jaguar trade, and stresses the need to collaborate with stakeholders whose
 voices are less prominent in the articles analysed, such as Chinese
 communities and local people who live around jaguars.
description: Articles were collected following the systematic online search
 strategy for wildlife trade products (Roberts, Mun and Milner-Gulland,
 2021). The time range was set as January 1<sup>st</sup>, 2010
 to December 31<sup>st</sup>, 2019, which broadly coincides
 with the first report of illegal trade in jaguars that were linked to
 demand from people of Chinese descent in Bolivia (Nunez, Aliaga Rossel
 2014), and exploratory searches before this period were not resulting in
 media reports. We conducted our searches on the
 platforms Factiva, WiseSearch, and the search engine Google. Factiva is
 one of the most frequently used media databases (Macnamara, 2005), and it
 offers media reports in simplified Chinese-language, Spanish-language and
 English-language, while WiseSearch is the most comprehensive Chinese media
 database (Gao <i>et al.</i>, 2016). Because the media
 databases only provide a narrow sample of media content published in major
 newspapers, we used Google Advanced Search to obtain a larger sample size
 for analysis. To avoid search biases, a new user profile was set up,
 Google’s Activity Tracking was turned off and cookies were deleted after
 each search. The first 100 results of each Google search were
 collected.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fj6q573vn
title: Data from: Herbivory may mediate the effects of nutrients on the dominance of alien plants

description: 1. Numerous studies have highlighted the role of nutrient availability and
 fluctuations therein for invasion success of alien plants. Others also
 highlighted the role of herbivores in invasion success. However, how
 herbivory and the level and fluctuations in nutrient availability interact
 in driving alien plant invasion into native communities remains largely
 unexplored. 2. We grew eight invasive alien species as target species in
 pot-mesocosms with five different synthetic native communities in a
 three-factorial design with two levels of nutrient availability (low vs
 high), two levels of nutrient fluctuation (constant vs pulsed) and two
 levels of herbivory (with vs without). 3. The relative biomass production
 of the alien target plants decreased in response to an increase in
 nutrient availability, and increased in response to the presence of
 herbivores. Furthermore, herbivory could interact with changes in nutrient
 availability and nutrient fluctuations to affect the dominance of the
 alien target species (a marginally significant interaction; 90% CIs:
 [0.005, 0.176]). 4. Synthesis: Our multispecies experiment indicates that
 herbivory could mediate the interactive effect of nutrient enrichment and
 variability in nutrient supply on invasion of alien plants into native
 communities. Therefore, we recommend that studies testing the fluctuating
 resources hypothesis should also consider interactive effect of other
 trophic levels.
description: To test the individual effects of nutrient availability, nutrient
 fluctuations, herbivory, and their interactions on alien plant invasion
 into resident communities, we grew eight invasive alien species as target
 species in pot-mesocosms with five different synthetic native communities,
 each consisting of three grassland species. Then, we exposed the plants to
 eight combinations of two nutrient availability (low <i>vs</i>
 high), two nutrient-fluctuation (constant <i>vs</i> pulsed)
 and two herbivory (with <i>vs</i> without) treatments. After
 about three months, we harvested the aboveground of the target species and
 the native community of each pot.
description: The unit of biomass is gram. If the alien target and native
 plants died, or the pots had accidentally been treated with the wrong
 nutrient solution, their values were recorded as NA in the
 table. If you have any questions, please write Dr.
 Yanjie Liu (ecoyj.liu@gmail.com).
DOI: 10.15468/dl.4ybn6z
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 384 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is one of (Selenaspidus articulatus)"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 384 records from 17 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0002904-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4xgxd259m
title: Mosquito larval and adult collections in Stratford and Milford, Connecticut, United States 2019 - 2020

description: Background Mosquito larval control through the use of insecticides is the
 most common strategy for suppressing West Nile virus (WNV) vector
 populations in Connecticut (CT), United States. To evaluate the ability of
 larval control to reduce entomological risk metrics associated with WNV,
 we performed WNV surveillance and assessments of municipal larvicide
 application programs in Milford and Stratford, CT in 2019 and 2020. Each
 town treated catch basins and non-basin habitats (Milford only) with
 biopesticide products during both WNV transmission seasons. Adult
 mosquitoes were collected weekly with gravid and CO2-baited light traps
 and tested for WNV; larvae and pupae were sampled weekly from basins
 within 500m of trapping sites, and Culex pipiens larval mortality was
 determined with lab bioassays of catch basin water samples. Results
 Declines in 4th instar larvae and pupae were observed in catch basins up
 to 2-weeks post-treatment, and we detected a positive relationship between
 adult female Cx. pipiens collections in gravid traps and pupal abundance
 in basins. We also detected a significant difference in total light trap
 collections between the two towns. Despite these findings, Cx. pipiens
 adult collections and WNV mosquito infection prevalence in gravid traps
 were similar between towns. Conclusion Larvicide applications reduced
 pupal abundance and the prevalence of host-seeking adults with no
 detectable impact on entomological risk metrics for WNV. Further research
 is needed to better determine the level of mosquito larval control
 required to reduce WNV transmission risk.
description: The .zip file contains .csv data files corresponding to larval
 and adult mosquito and West Nile virus surveillance in Milford and
 Stratford, Connecticut, United States from 2019 - 2020. The data files
 are: 1) mosquito larval collections from catch basins in each town for
 each year of collection, 2) adult mosquito collections and arbovirus
 detections from gravid and light trap collections in each town for each
 year of data, and 3) multipe summary files of <em>Culex
 pipiens </em>collections in each trap type with corresponding larval
 sampling data. Briefly, the data was analysed using functions available in
 R packages for generalized linear mixed effects models. Please see the
 manuscript for specific methodologies and data restrictions.
description: To use this data set, someone would need working knowledge of R
 (or equivalent softwares); specific usage of each program is described in
 the associated manuscript. A solid foundation in vector-borne disease
 surveillance systems and statistical analyses is also
 recommended.