DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16686866
title: Data and Codes for Linking species distributions and urban governance through social ecological fit in blue green infrastructure

description: This dataset accompanies the manuscript titled "Linking Species Distributions and Urban Governance through Social-Ecological Fit in Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI)." .The study explores how ecological data and urban governance structures interact through a network-based framework, focusing on declining amphibian species in an urban context. Using the concept of social-ecological fit, the research combines spatial models of habitat suitability and connectivity with social network analysis based on a survey of multi-sector actors involved in the planning and management of BGI.

The dataset includes all files necessary to reproduce the main analyses presented in the manuscript. The provided R script performs the core analyses described in the manuscript. It includes data preparation, Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM) fitting and validation, motif count analysis, computation of centrality measures, and visualization of social-ecological networks. While the script is configured to reproduce the main results, it can also be adapted to reproduce the analyses presented in the Supporting Information, which focus on amphibian species with higher dispersal abilities. All necessary data are included for this purpose, with only minor adjustments to the script required.

This dataset is intended to support reproducibility, transparency, and reusability for researchers and practitioners interested in urban biodiversity, ecological planning, and collaborative governance.
description: Description of the data and file structure

Description of the data and file structure

The files contain the data and the R scripts needed to replicate the SEN analysis described in: Linking Species Distributions and Urban Governance Through Social Ecological Fit in Blue Green Infrastructure

Files include (1) a BGI map (called BGIdata.zip) this is a spatial dataset which includes all the BGI mapped in the City of Zürich, Switzerland, which was taken as a case study. (2) The Graphab input files which allowed to generate the ecological networks (called Graphab_input eco_nets.zip (3) the raw data which allowed to build the networks and which consists of multi species suitable habitats originating from Donati et al. (2022). These are stored in three folders namely, the single species and multi species Species Distribution Models (SDMs) folders. (4) All the processed files stored in Matrices_SEN_analysis.zip used in the social-ecological fit analyses (under the two considered amphibian dispersal scenarios) are RDS files which include the social, ecological and social-ecological matrices as well as social and ecological node attribute data. These processed data allow to visualise the Social-ecological networks, and to build the terms used in the Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs), and along with the MCMC diagnostics and GOF diagnostics. 

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Code

The SEN_ERGMs_Main.R code allows to:\(1) plot the spatially explicit social-ecological networks (SEN).\(2) obtain inferential results on social-ecological fit through Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs), presented in Figure 3 of the Main text and Table S1 in Supporting Information\(3) run the MCMC diagnostics on the ERGMs model fit and conducting the Goodness-of-fit Diagnostics.\(4) compute the motif counts for the characterisations by habitat, sector and BGI.

(5) the network centrality measures across all SEN dimensions.

Files and variables

File: SEN_ERGMs_Main.R

Description: Main code for SEN plot, ERGM, motif count and network centrality measures

File: BG_general_info_social_nodes.RDS

Description: social node attribute data

File: eco_node_metadata.RDS

Description: ecological node attribute data

File: eco_node_metadata_highdisp.RDS

Description: ecological node attribute data under the high dispersal condition (Supp. Info)

File: eco_soc_mat_highdisp.RDS

Description:  ecological-social matrix under the high dispersal condition (Supp. Info)

File: soc_eco_mat_highdisp.RDS

Description: social-ecological matrix under the high dispersal condition (Supp. Info)

File: eco_soc_mat.RDS

Description: ecological-social matrix presented in main (low dispersal)

File: soc_eco_mat.RDS

Description: social-ecological matrix presented in main (low dispersal)

File: soc_node_metadata.RDS

Description: social node attribute data presented in main (low dispersal)

File: soc_soc_mat_highdisp.RDS

Description: social-social matrix under the high dispersal condition (Supp. Info)

File: soc_soc_mat.RDS

Description: social-social matrix presented in main (low dispersal)

File: eco_eco_mat.RDS

Description: ecological-ecological matrix presented in main (low dispersal)

File: SEN_full_mat_highdisp.RDS

Description: full SEN matrix under the high dispersal condition (Supp. Info)

File: SEN_full_mat.RDS

Description: full SEN matrix presented in main (low dispersal)

File: single_species_binarized_SDMs.zip

Description: Single Species SDMs outputs from Donati et al. 2022 (binarised) used to build the multi species SDMs maps.

File: multi_species_SDMs.zip

Description: Stacked single species SDM outputs from Donati et al. 2022.

File: Graphab_inputs_eco_nets.zip

Description: Merged BGI and Suitable habitat maps with cost raster from Donati et al. 2022 used for input in Graphab to create the ecological networks used as input for the SEN analysis.

File: BGI_data.zip

Description: Spatial Data of BGI in the City of Zürich assembled from various sources see Donati et al. 2025 and methods in present manuscript.