cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.v67003c
title: Data from: The contribution of road-based citizen science efforts to the conservation of pond-breeding amphibians

description: 1. Road-side amphibian citizen science programs bring together volunteers
 focused on collecting scientific data while working to mitigate population
 declines by directly reducing road mortality of pond-breeding amphibians.
 Despite the international popularity of these movement-based road-side
 conservation efforts (i.e., ‘big nights’, ‘bucket brigades’ and ‘toad
 patrols’), direct benefits to conservation have rarely been quantified or
 evaluated. 2. As a case study, we used a population simulation approach to
 evaluate how volunteer intensity, frequency and distribution influence
 three conservation outcomes (minimum population size, population growth
 rate, and years to extinction) of the spotted salamander (Ambystoma
 maculatum) – a common, focal pond-breeding amphibian of citizen science
 and conservation programs in the United States. 3. Sensitivity analysis
 supported the expectation that populations were primarily
 recruitment-driven. Thus, conservation outcomes were highest when
 volunteers focused on out-migration of metamorphs as opposed to
 in-migration of adults –contrary to the typical timing of such volunteer
 events. 4. Almost every volunteer strategy resulted in increased
 conservation outcomes compared to a no-volunteer strategy. Specifically,
 volunteer frequency during metamorph migration increased outcomes more
 than the same increases in volunteer effort during adult migration. Small
 population sizes resulted in a negligible effect of volunteer intensity.
 Volunteers during the first adult in-migration had a relatively small
 effect compared to most other strategies. 5. Synthesis and applications.
 Although citizen science focused conservation actions could directly
 benefit declining populations, other conservation measures are
 additionally needed to halt or reverse local amphibian declines. This
 study demonstrates a need to evaluate the effectiveness of focusing
 citizen science mitigation efforts on the metamorph stage, as opposed the
 adult stage, which may be challenging, compared to other management
 actions such as road-crossing infrastructure. Current amphibian citizen
 science programs will be challenged to balance implementing evidence-based
 conservation measures on the most limiting life stage while retaining the
 social and community benefits to volunteers.
description: R
 filesscenarios.Rdatabprobfecundmigratesurvscensims
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.f1j0s
title: Data from: Naturally occurring hybrids of coral reef butterflyfishes have similar fitness compared to parental species

description: Hybridisation can produce evolutionary novelty by increasing fitness and
 adaptive capacity. Heterosis, or hybrid vigour, has been documented in
 many plant and animal taxa, and is a notable consequence of hybridisation
 that has been exploited for decades in agriculture and aquaculture. On the
 contrary, loss of fitness in naturally occurring hybrid taxa has been
 observed in many cases. This can have negative consequences for the
 parental species involved (wasted reproductive effort), and has raised
 concerns for species conservation. This study evaluates the relative
 fitness of previously documented butterflyfish hybrids of the genus
 Chaetodon from the Indo-Pacific suture zone at Christmas Island.
 Histological examination confirmed the reproductive viability of Chaetodon
 hybrids. Examination of liver lipid content showed that hybrid body
 condition was not significantly different from parent species body
 condition. Lastly, size at age data revealed no difference in growth rates
 and asymptotic length between hybrids and parent species. Based on the
 traits measured in this study, naturally occurring hybrids of Chaetodon
 butterflyfishes have similar fitness to their parental species, and are
 unlikely to supplant parental species under current environmental
 conditions at the suture zone. However, given sufficient fitness and on
 going genetic exchange between the respective parental species, hybrids
 are likely to persist within the suture zone.
description: Gonadosomatic Index in
 both hybrid groupsGSI data, taxon, gender
 and collection dates for all individuals used in GSI
 comparisons.GP_TL_GSI.csvLiver vacuolation in both hybrid groupsHepatocyte vacuolation data, taxon and gender identifiers for each individual used in the body condition analyses.GP_TL_liver_vacuolation.csvLength at age data for the C. guttatissimus groupLength, age and taxon identifiers for each individual used in VBGF fitting for the C. guttatissimus hybridising groupGP_length_age.csvLength at age data for the C. trifasciatus groupLength, age and taxon identifiers for each individual used in VBGF fitting for the C. trifasciatus hybridising groupTL_length_age.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n802d
title: Data from: Energetic fitness: field metabolic rates assessed via 3D accelerometry complement conventional fitness metrics

description: 1) Evaluating the fitness of organisms is an essential step towards
 understanding their responses to environmental change. Connections between
 energy expenditure and fitness have been postulated for nearly a century.
 However, testing this premise among wild animals is constrained by
 difficulties in measuring energy expenditure while simultaneously
 monitoring conventional fitness metrics such as survival and reproductive
 output. 2) We addressed this issue by exploring the functional links
 between field metabolic rate (FMR), body condition, sex, age and
 reproductive performance in a wild population. 3) We deployed 3D
 accelerometers on 115 Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) during four
 breeding seasons at one of the largest colonies of this species, Cape
 Crozier, on Ross Island, Antarctica. The demography of this population has
 been studied for the past 18 years. From accelerometry recordings,
 collected for birds of known age and breeding history, we determined the
 vector of the dynamic body acceleration (VeDBA) and used it as a proxy for
 FMR. 4) This allowed us to demonstrate relationships between FMR, a
 breeding quality index (BQI), and body condition. Notably, we found a
 significant quadratic relationship between mean VeDBA during foraging and
 BQI for experienced breeders, and individuals in better body condition
 showed lower rates of energy expenditure. 5) We conclude that using FMR as
 a fitness component complementary to more conventional fitness metrics
 will yield greater understanding of evolutionary and conservation
 physiology.
description: Energetic fitness
 dataData on body condition,
 body size, age, sex, reproductive performance, diving depth, and field
 metabolic rate (as proxied by mean VeDBA) from 115 Adelie penguins
 (Pygoscelis adeliae) breeding at Cape Crozier, Ross Sea, Antarctica,
 2010-2013.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qf362
title: Data from: Degradation of root community traits as indicator for transformation of tropical lowland rain forests into oil palm and rubber plantations

description: Conversion of tropical forests into intensely managed plantations is a
 threat to ecosystem functions. On Sumatra, Indonesia, oil palm (Elaeis
 guineensis) plantations are rapidly expanding, displacing rain forests and
 extensively used rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) agro-forests. Here, we tested
 the influence of land use systems on root traits including chemical traits
 (carbon, nitrogen, mineral nutrients, potentially toxic elements
 [aluminium, iron] and performance traits (root mass, vitality, mycorrhizal
 colonization). Traits were measured as root community-weighed traits
 (RCWTs) in lowland rain forests, in rubber agro-forests mixed with rain
 forest trees, in rubber and oil palm plantations in two landscapes (Bukit
 Duabelas and Harapan, Sumatra). We hypothesized that RCWTs vary with land
 use system indicating increasing transformation intensity and loss of
 ecosystem functions. The main factors found to be related to increasing
 transformation intensity were declining root vitality and root sulfur,
 nitrogen, carbon, manganese concentrations and increasing root aluminium
 and iron concentrations as well as increasing spore densities of
 arbuscular mycorrhizas. Mycorrhizal abundance was high for arbuscular and
 low for ectomycorrhizas and unrelated to changes in RCWTs. The decline in
 RCWTs showed significant correlations with soil nitrogen, soil pH and
 litter carbon. Thus, our study uncovered a relationship between
 deteriorating root community traits and loss of ecosystem functionality
 and showed that increasing transformation intensity resulted in decreasing
 root nutrition and health. Based on these results we suggest that land
 management that improves root vitality may enhance the ecological
 functions of intense tropical production systems.
description: Chemical_and_performance_traits_roots_and_soil_on_Sumatra_Polle_2015Root element concentrations, Root mass and mycorrhizal colonization, soil paramters
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dj625ng
title: Data from: Neutral variation does not predict immunogenetic variation in the European grayling (Thymallus thymallus) - implications for management

description: Preservation of genetic diversity is critical to successful conservation
 and there is increasing demand for the inclusion of ecologically
 meaningful genetic information in management decisions. Supportive
 breeding programmes are increasingly implemented to combat declines in
 many species, yet their effect on adaptive genetic variation is
 understudied. This is despite the fact that supportive breeding may
 interfere with natural evolutionary processes. Here, we assessed the
 performance of neutral and adaptive markers (Major Histocompatibility
 Complex; MHC) to inform management of European grayling (Thymallus
 thymallus), which routinely involves supplementation of natural
 populations with hatchery-reared fish (stocking). This study is the first
 to characterize MH II DAA and DAB loci in grayling and to investigate
 immune genetic variation in relation to management practice in this
 species. High-throughput Illumina sequencing of ‘introduced’, ‘stocked
 native’ and ‘non-stocked native’ populations revealed significantly higher
 levels of allelic richness and heterozygosity for MH markers than
 microsatellites exclusively in non-stocked native populations. Likewise,
 significantly lower differentiation at the MH II than for microsatellites
 was apparent when considering non-stocked native populations, but not
 stocked populations. We developed a simulation model to test the effects
 of relaxation of selection during the early life stage within captivity.
 Dependent on the census population size and stocking intensity, there may
 be long-term effects of stocking on MH II, but not neutral genetic
 diversity. This is consistent with our empirical results. This study
 highlights the necessity for considering adaptive genetic variation in
 conservation decisions and raises concerns about the efficiency of
 stocking as a management practice.
description: genotypes_DAA_DAB_genepopgenotypes at the MH II α-chain (DAA) and β-chain (DAB) for individuals of Europeang grayling across natural UK populations
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1h551
title: Data from: Influence of gaze and directness of approach on the escape responses of the Indian rock lizard, Psammophilus dorsalis (Gray, 1831)

description: Animals often evaluate the degree of risk posed by a predator and respond
 accordingly. Since many predators orient their eyes towards prey while
 attacking, predator gaze and directness of approach could serve as
 conspicuous indicators of risk to prey. The ability to perceive these cues
 and discriminate between high and low predation risk should benefit prey
 species through both higher survival and decreased energy expenditure. We
 experimentally examined whether Indian rock lizards (Psammophilus
 dorsalis) can perceive these two indicators of predation risk by measuring
 the variation in their fleeing behaviour in response to type of gaze and
 approach by a human predator. Overall, we found that the gaze and approach
 of the predator influenced flight initiation distance, which also varied
 with attributes of the prey (i.e. size/sex and tail-raise behaviour).
 Flight initiation distance (FID) was 43% longer during direct approaches
 with direct gaze compared with tangential approaches with averted gaze. In
 further, exploratory, analyses, we found that FID was 23% shorter for
 adult male lizards than for female or young male (FYM) lizards. In
 addition, FYM lizards that showed a tail-raise display during approach had
 a 71% longer FID than those that did not. Our results suggest that
 multiple factors influence the decision to flee in animals. Further
 studies are needed to test the generality of these factors and to
 investigate the proximate mechanisms underlying flight decisions.
description: Flight Initiation
 Distance dataData on flight
 initiation distance were collected in the field according to an
 experimental protocol described in the associated paper. Each column of
 this csv file is described in more detail in the accompanying ReadMe
 file.lizardFID.csvR script used to analyse flight initiation distance dataThis is a plain text file contain the R script that we used to analyse the lizard FID data. It is self-explanatory, so no separate ReadMe file is provided.lizardFID-script.R
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2vg12
title: Data from: Contrasting the ecological and taxonomic consequences of extinction

description: Extinction in the fossil record is most often measured by the percentage
 of taxa (species, genera, families, etc.) that go extinct in a certain
 time interval. This is a measure of taxonomic loss, but previous work has
 indicated that taxonomic loss may be decoupled from the ecological effects
 of an extinction. To understand the role extinction plays in ecological
 change, extinction should also be measured in terms of loss of functional
 diversity. This study tests whether ecological changes increase
 correspondingly with taxonomic changes during the Late Ordovician M4/M5
 extinction, the Ordovician/Silurian mass extinction, and the Late Devonian
 mass extinction. All three extinctions are evaluated with regional data
 sets from the eastern United States. Ecological effects are measured by
 classifying organisms into ecological lifestyles, which are groups based
 on ecological function rather than evolutionary history. The taxonomic and
 ecological effects of each extinction are evaluated with additive
 diversity partitioning, detrended correspondence analysis, and relative
 abundance distributions. Although the largest taxonomic changes occur in
 the Ordovician/Silurian extinction, the largest ecological changes occur
 in the Late Devonian extinction. These results suggest that the ecological
 consequences of extinction need to be considered in addition to the
 taxonomic effects of extinction.
description: Famennian Faunal
 CountsThese data are faunal
 counts from bedding planes of rock slabs constrained to Famennian units.
 All data is from western New York. The data consists almost entirely of
 brachiopods identified to the genus level.FamennianData.csvFrasnian Faunal CountsThese data are faunal counts from bedding planes of slabs constrained to Frasnian units. These data are from western New York and consist almost entirely of brachiopods identified to the genus level.FrasnianData.csv
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30093847
title: Supplemental material for "Staring at Tables: Exploring Conceptual Data Modeling as a Rich Collaborative Activity"

description: This is the supplement for "Staring at Tables: Exploring Conceptual Data Modeling as a Rich Collaborative Activity", accepted to CHI2026. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790319Contents:S.01. Narrative participant profilesS.02. Study ProtocolS.03. Conceptual Data Model Outcomes (Sketches)S.04. Data used in the study taskS.05. Final codebook from the thematic analysis<br>
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.30093847.v1
title: Supplemental material for "Staring at Tables: Exploring Conceptual Data Modeling as a Rich Collaborative Activity"

description: This is the supplement for "Staring at Tables: Exploring Conceptual Data Modeling as a Rich Collaborative Activity", accepted to CHI2026. Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3772318.3790319Contents:S.01. Narrative participant profilesS.02. Study ProtocolS.03. Conceptual Data Model Outcomes (Sketches)S.04. Data used in the study taskS.05. Final codebook from the thematic analysis<br>
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rj370
title: Data from: Using experimental evolution to study adaptations for life within the family

description: Parents of many species provision their young, and the extent of parental
 provisioning constitutes a major component of the offspring’s social
 environment. Thus, a change in parental provisioning can alter selection
 on offspring, resulting in the coevolution of parental and offspring
 traits. Although this reasoning is central to our evolutionary
 understanding of family life, there is little direct evidence that
 selection by parents causes evolutionary change in their offspring. Here
 we use experimental evolution to examine how populations of burying
 beetles adapt to a change in posthatching parental provisioning. We
 measured the performance of larvae descended from lab populations that had
 been maintained with and without posthatching parental care (Full Care and
 No Care populations). We found that adaptation to the absence of
 posthatching care led to rapid and consistent changes in larval survival
 in the absence of care. Specifically, larvae from No Care populations had
 higher survival in the absence of care than larvae from Full Care
 populations. Other measures of larval performance, such as the ability of
 larvae to consume a breeding carcass and larval mass at dispersal, did not
 differ between the Full Care and No Care populations. Nevertheless, our
 results show that populations can adapt rapidly to a change in the extent
 of parental care and that experimental evolution can be used to study such
 adaptation.
description: Schrader_Jarrett_Kilner_2015_datasetData for the analyses described in Schrader, Jarrett, and Kilner 2015. Columns are as follows: line (the experimental line, F = Full Care, N = No Care), treatment (the breeding environment, F = Full Care, N = No Care), rep (replicate), block (the experimental block, A or B), carcass_mass (the mass of the breeding carcass in grams), no_larvae (the number of larvae at dispersal), brood_mass (the mass of the entire brood at dispersal in grams), mean_larval_mass (the average mass of larvae at dispersal in grams), success (whether the breeding attempt produced at least one larva, 0 = no dispersing larvae, 1 = at least 1 dispersing larva), carcass_consumption (whether the brood consumed the breeding carcass, 0 = carcass not completely consumed, 1 = carcass completely consumed).
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17369235
title: Resources for the REASSESS-SLIDE 2023-2024 project

description: Resources to reproduce the results from Paris et al. Dense Seismic Array Monitoring of the Glacier Tongue of Isunnguata Sermia, West Greenland, Seismica, 2026. doi: 

List of available resources in:



DAS.zip: position of the optical fibers along with the distance value of the channels.

Long-term_stations.zip: Station response files.

Meteorological_data.zip: COSIPY file containing the input temperature, precipitation, output surface melt rate.

Nodes.zip: Clock correction files (catalog and script to correct for the drift), GNSS logs of the nodes and their processed positions, the response files, and tilt catalogs. 

Source_catalogs.zip: Catalog of sledgehammer blows and catalogs of seismic events detected with MFP in the 4-6Hz frequency band.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17369236
title: Resources for the REASSESS-SLIDE 2023-2024 project

description: Resources to reproduce the results from Paris et al. Dense Seismic Array Monitoring of the Glacier Tongue of Isunnguata Sermia, West Greenland, Seismica, 2026. doi: 

List of available resources in:



DAS.zip: position of the optical fibers along with the distance value of the channels.

Long-term_stations.zip: Station response files.

Meteorological_data.zip: COSIPY file containing the input temperature, precipitation, output surface melt rate.

Nodes.zip: Clock correction files (catalog and script to correct for the drift), GNSS logs of the nodes and their processed positions, the response files, and tilt catalogs. 

Source_catalogs.zip: Catalog of sledgehammer blows and catalogs of seismic events detected with MFP in the 4-6Hz frequency band.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jk7mq52
title: Data from: Differing patterns of plant spinescence affect blue duiker (Bovidae: Philantomba monticola) browsing behavior and intake rates

description: The ways in which spines and thorns on plants affect browsing behavior and
 instantaneous intake rate (IIR) have been investigated for several medium
 and large ungulates, with most authors concluding that spines either
 affect the ability to obtain a full bite, or prevent the removal of twig
 material. We investigated how a very small ruminant, the blue duiker
 (Philantomba monticola; mass 5 kg), altered its feeding strategy when
 confronted with intact or despined branches of three species of woody
 plant that differed in leaf and spine size, density, and arrangement, viz.
 Dichrostachys cinerea africana, Vachellia (Acacia) karroo and Ziziphus
 mucronata. Increasing spine length and density reduced IIR (g/min), while
 bite size was directly related to leaf area. Bite rate and the lag time to
 taking the first bite did not differ among treatments. In all treatments,
 blue duikers cropped leaves in preference to pruning shoots. High spine
 density forced duikers to crop leaves at the ends of branches where spines
 were softer. At low spine density and on despined treatments, leaves
 midway along branches were preferred. Single bites (using incisors) were
 used preferentially in the presence of spines, with a shift to cheek bites
 on despined branches. We conclude that, as found with larger browsers,
 spines coupled with small leaf size provide the best defense against
 defoliation.
description: Musariri_et_al_Summary_Browse_dataComma delimited text file containing summarised data for each treatment occasion for each subject.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.52nn2
title: Data from: Review on the effects of toxicants on freshwater ecosystem functions

description: We reviewed 122 peer-reviewed studies on the effects of organic toxicants
 and heavy metals on three fundamental ecosystem functions in freshwater
 ecosystems, i.e. leaf litter breakdown, primary production and community
 respiration. From each study meeting the inclusion criteria, the
 concentration resulting in a reduction of at least 20% in an ecosystem
 function was standardized based on median effect concentrations of
 standard test organisms (i.e. algae and daphnids). For pesticides, more
 than one third of observations indicated reductions in ecosystem functions
 at concentrations that are assumed being protective in regulation.
 Moreover, the reduction in leaf litter breakdown was more pronounced in
 the presence of invertebrate decomposers compared to studies where only
 microorganisms were involved in this function. High variability within and
 between studies hampered the derivation of a concentration–effect
 relationship. Hence, if ecosystem functions are to be included as
 protection goal in chemical risk assessment standardized methods are
 required.
description: Raw data for review on
 the effects of toxicants on freshwater ecosystem
 functionsScript_and_data.zip