cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.q8b02dc5/4
title: HomingPigeonsOlfaction-Version1-metadata

description: Gagliardo A, Ioalè P, Filannino C, Wikelski M (2012) Homing pigeons only navigate in air with intact environmental odours: a test of the olfactory activation hypothesis with GPS data loggers. PLoS ONE 6(8): e22385. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022385
description: A large body of evidence has shown that anosmic pigeons are impaired in their navigation. However, the role of odours in navigation is still subject to debate. While according to the olfactory navigation hypothesis homing pigeons possess a navigational map based on the distribution of environmental odours, the olfactory activation hypothesis proposes that odour perception is only needed to activate a navigational mechanism based on cues of another nature. Here we tested experimentally whether the perception of artificial odours is sufficient to allow pigeons to navigate, as expected from the olfactory activation hypothesis. We transported three groups of pigeons in air-tight containers to release sites 53 and 61 km from home in three different olfactory conditions. The Control group received natural environmental air; both the Pure Air and the Artificial Odour groups received pure air filtered through an active charcoal filter. Only the Artificial Odour group received additional puffs of artificial odours until release. We then released pigeons while recording their tracks with 1 Hz GPS data loggers. We also followed non-homing pigeons using an aerial data readout to a Cessna plane, allowing, for the first time, the tracking of non-homing homing pigeons. Within the first hour after release, the pigeons in both the Artificial Odour and the Pure Air group (receiving no environmental odours) showed impaired navigational performances at each release site. Our data provide evidence against an activation role of odours in navigation, and document that pigeons only navigate well when they perceive environmental odours.
DOI: 10.5443/11446
title: Évaluation de l'impact du programme d'immunisation avec le vaccin pneumococcique conjugué et le vaccin influenza inactivé chez les enfants du Nunavik

description: The evaluation will be carried out by comparing frequency rates for different indicators in three birth cohorts that did not receive 7-PCV or TIV (1994-1996), in six cohorts that received the vaccines but not every dose in the complete vaccination schedule (1997-2002), and in three cohorts that benefited from the routine vaccination program combining 7-PCV and TIV and received the complete schedule (2003-2005). The information sources used will include the provincial hospitalizations database ("fichier Med-Echo"), the database of invasive pneumococcal strains received by the provincial reference laboratory ("fichier LABO"), vaccination and medical records held by hospitals and dispensaries, as well as the results of audiology screening and diagnostic examinations. In Nunavik, audiology screening is a routine procedure at or around age 5 and combines audiometry, tympanometry and otoscopy. This program, which was introduced in 1984, offers a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of vaccination on audiological sequelae attributable to otitis media.
description: Purpose: In the Nunavik region (province of Quebec, Canada), hospitalizations for pneumonia are far more frequent than in the rest of Quebec and it is estimated that a quarter of all children in the region have a hearing deficit by age 5. In spring 2002, a routine immunization program for newborns using the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (7-PCV) was introduced, along with a catch-up program for children between the ages of two months and 5 years. In fall 2003, the decision was made to offer a trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) to all children aged 6-23 months. The goal of the study is to evaluate the impact of this dual vaccination program and to study for the first time the ability of 7-PCV combined with TIV to prevent respiratory infections and otitis sequelae in a highly vulnerable population. It involves the retrospective follow-up to age 5 of 12 birth cohorts, namely children born between 1994 and 2005.
description: Summary: In Nunavik, children are admitted to hospitals for pneumonia more frequently than anywhere else in Quebec and it is estimated that one quarter of all children suffer from hearing loss by the age of five. Recently, immunization programs have been introduced to address these issues; however, there has been no formal evaluation of the effectiveness of these programs. This project is analysing the medical records of approximately 3,000 children born in Nunavik between 1994 and 2005 to verify whether vaccination reduces the number of respiratory infections, prescriptions for antibiotics, hospitalizations and hearing disorders. The results of this study could be used to inform vaccination programs for all populations living in the Arctic.
DOI: 10.5284/1017083
title: Wroxeter Conservation Plan

description: In 2009, English Heritage commissioned a Conservation Plan for Wroxeter Roman City from Dr Roger White, Ironbridge Institute, University of Birmingham. This was one of two sites to act as a pilot project (EH Project Number AA090778/CP) to test the application of the then newly introduced policy guidelines, Conservation Management Policy and Practice (EH 2008). Working with Jenny Marriott and Malcolm Reid, the report was compiled during 2009 and the gazetteer was added in 2010. The work offers a full consideration of the evidential, historical, cultural and aesthetic significances of the site, alongside management information, characterisation of the resource and the recommendations resulting from the extensive consultation process with stakeholders at all levels. Appendices include details of stakeholder meetings, site visitor data for 2009 and bibliographic references.
DOI: 10.5284/1017431
title: Extensive Urban Survey - Tyne and Wear

description: English Heritage funded archaeological assessments of the five small medieval towns of Tyne and Wear. The work involved the collation and analysis of documentary, cartographic and archaeological sources for evidence of the extent and character of the urban development of the towns from the historic core to the major areas of residential and industrial expansion in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.9t0m888q/2
title: Astrocaryum standleyanum Roland Kays BCI Panama-metadata

description: Jansen PA, Hirsch BT, Emsens W, Zamora-Gutierrez V, Wikelski M, Kays RW (2012) Data from: Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds. PNAS 109(31) 12610-12615. doi:10.1073/pnas.1205184109
description: The Neotropics have many plant species that seem to be adapted for seed dispersal by megafauna that went extinct in the late Pleistocene. Given the crucial importance of seed dispersal for plant persistence, it remains a mystery how these plants have survived more than 10,000 y without their mutualist dispersers. Here we present support for the hypothesis that secondary seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents has facilitated the persistence of these large-seeded species. We used miniature radio transmitters to track the dispersal of reputedly megafaunal seeds by Central American agoutis, which scatter-hoard seeds in shallow caches in the soil throughout the forest. We found that seeds were initially cached at mostly short distances and then quickly dug up again. However, rather than eating the recovered seeds, agoutis continued to move and recache the seeds, up to 36 times. Agoutis dispersed an estimated 35% of seeds for &gt;100 m. An estimated 14% of the cached seeds survived to the next year, when a new fruit crop became available to the rodents. Serial video-monitoring of cached seeds revealed that the stepwise dispersal was caused by agoutis repeatedly stealing and recaching each other’s buried seeds. Although previous studies suggest that rodents are poor dispersers, we demonstrate that communities of rodents can in fact provide highly effective long-distance seed dispersal. Our findings suggest that thieving scatter-hoarding rodents could substitute for extinct megafaunal seed dispersers of tropical large-seeded trees.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.9t0m888q/4
title: Astrocaryum standleyanum Roland Kays BCI Panama

description: Jansen PA, Hirsch BT, Emsens W, Zamora-Gutierrez V, Wikelski M, Kays RW (2012) Data from: Thieving rodents as substitute dispersers of megafaunal seeds. PNAS 109(31) 12610-12615. doi:10.1073/pnas.1205184109
description: The Neotropics have many plant species that seem to be adapted for seed dispersal by megafauna that went extinct in the late Pleistocene. Given the crucial importance of seed dispersal for plant persistence, it remains a mystery how these plants have survived more than 10,000 y without their mutualist dispersers. Here we present support for the hypothesis that secondary seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding rodents has facilitated the persistence of these large-seeded species. We used miniature radio transmitters to track the dispersal of reputedly megafaunal seeds by Central American agoutis, which scatter-hoard seeds in shallow caches in the soil throughout the forest. We found that seeds were initially cached at mostly short distances and then quickly dug up again. However, rather than eating the recovered seeds, agoutis continued to move and recache the seeds, up to 36 times. Agoutis dispersed an estimated 35% of seeds for &gt;100 m. An estimated 14% of the cached seeds survived to the next year, when a new fruit crop became available to the rodents. Serial video-monitoring of cached seeds revealed that the stepwise dispersal was caused by agoutis repeatedly stealing and recaching each other’s buried seeds. Although previous studies suggest that rodents are poor dispersers, we demonstrate that communities of rodents can in fact provide highly effective long-distance seed dispersal. Our findings suggest that thieving scatter-hoarding rodents could substitute for extinct megafaunal seed dispersers of tropical large-seeded trees.
DOI: 10.5284/1017454
title: Howick Project

description: The site at Howick was discovered when amateur archaeologists found flint tools eroding from a cliff edge 3km south of Craster on the Northumberland coast. The discovery prompted an investigation by ARS Ltd and the University of Newcastle which took place in the summers of 2000 and 2002.
DOI: 10.6073/pasta/0f8f98311fb746fd5517d9402b5ebd34
title: Jornada Basin LTER Cross-scale Interactions Study (CSIS) Block 5 meteorological station: 1-hour summary data: 2017 - ongoing

description: This data package contains hourly air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation summary data from Jornada Basin LTER Cross Scale Interactions Study (CSIS) Block-5 met station. Air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and precipitation are measured and calculated at an automated meteorological station connected to a 900 MHz spread spectrum wireless network. Wind speed is measured at 37cm, 75 cm, 150 cm, and 300 cm, wind direction at approximately 3m, and air temperature and relative humidity at approximate 2.5m. Measurements are aggregated at intervals of 5, 30, 60 minutes and daily, with precipitation additionally provided with 1 second aggregation during precipitation events. Precipitation is not measured at Block 1 and Block 12 because of proximity to Block 2 and Block 13, respectively . This is an ONGOING dataset.
DOI: 10.5284/1017432
title: Archaeological Watching Brief with Option to Excavate at Test Park Community Sports Facility, Lower Brownhill Road, Southampton.

description: The project was an archaeological watching brief carried out on the construction of a new sports facility at Lower Brownhills Road, Southampton for Southampton Solent University. The natural was gravel overlain by brickearth. The aims of the investigation as defined in the written scheme of investigation were 'principally to determine the presence or absence of human use of the area, and the date, type, state of preservation, and extent of that use; to recover associated objects; and to record such evidence as does survive. In addition the nature, dimensions, and relationship of natural deposits will be noted and recorded' A total of 62 trenches were dug. Prehistoric activity was marked by three ditches, four pits and one posthole. Dating evidence was limited and some of the ditches were probably still functioning into the Roman period. Late Saxon activity was marked by one pit/posthole and four sherds from the subsoil. Medieval activity was marked by a pit and a posthole. Post-Medieval activity was marked by seven ditches, one pit and a posthole. The ditches are earlier than the field divisions shown on the mid-19th century tithe map and presumably pre-date the enclosure of the area.
DOI: 10.5284/1017433
title: Merseyside Historic Characterisation Project (MHCP)

description: The Merseyside Historic Characterisation Project (MHCP) was undertaken by the Merseyside Archaeological Advisory Service, based in National Museums Liverpool. The project covers the five local authorities which make up the Merseyside area, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral. Commissioned by English Heritage in 2003, the MHCP was the first of a number of surveys to develop and explore a methodology for historic landscape characterisation of a large metropolitan conurbation. The project commenced in April 2003 with methodology development, pilot phase and implementation to June 2005, after which the dedicated project officer post was vacant until April 2008. The project was subsequently reviewed, recast and completed between 2008- July 2010. Data was transferred to the Historic Environment Record in August 2010; report editing and production was finalised in 2011.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.ct8sk835/1
title: Orinoco Goose, Davenport, Peru and Bolivia

description: Davenport LC, Nole I, Carlos N (2012) Data from: East with the night—longitudinal migration of the Orinoco Goose between Manú National Park, Peru and the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46886. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046886
description: We report on the intra-Amazonian migration of a pair of Orinoco Geese (Neochen jubata) from Manú National Park, Peru. The species is Critically Endangered in Peru, so a major aim of the study was to aid conservation planning by learning the wet season location of the country's last known breeding population. We captured a breeding pair on October 27, 2010, and fitted the birds with Microwave Telemetry, Inc. GPS/Argos satellite PTT's. The pair migrated ~655 km from Manú National Park to the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia (Dept. of Bení) in a predominantly longitudinal migration, reaching their final destination on December 23, 2010. Major movements (&gt;5 km per time period) were almost exclusively at night and were undertaken with and without moonlight. Foraging areas used at stopovers in the Llanos de Moxos were remarkably limited, suggesting the importance of grazing lawns maintained by the geese and other herbivores, possibly including cattle. Orinoco Geese are resident in the Llanos de Moxos year-round, so the Manú geese represent a partial migration from the Bení region. We hypothesize that cavity nest limitation explains the partial migration of Orinoco Geese from the Llanos de Moxos.
DOI: 10.5441/001/1.ct8sk835/2
title: Orinoco Goose, Davenport, Peru and Bolivia-metadata

description: Davenport LC, Nole I, Carlos N (2012) Data from: East with the night—longitudinal migration of the Orinoco Goose between Manú National Park, Peru and the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia. PLoS ONE 7(10): e46886. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046886
description: We report on the intra-Amazonian migration of a pair of Orinoco Geese (Neochen jubata) from Manú National Park, Peru. The species is Critically Endangered in Peru, so a major aim of the study was to aid conservation planning by learning the wet season location of the country's last known breeding population. We captured a breeding pair on October 27, 2010, and fitted the birds with Microwave Telemetry, Inc. GPS/Argos satellite PTT's. The pair migrated ~655 km from Manú National Park to the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia (Dept. of Bení) in a predominantly longitudinal migration, reaching their final destination on December 23, 2010. Major movements (&gt;5 km per time period) were almost exclusively at night and were undertaken with and without moonlight. Foraging areas used at stopovers in the Llanos de Moxos were remarkably limited, suggesting the importance of grazing lawns maintained by the geese and other herbivores, possibly including cattle. Orinoco Geese are resident in the Llanos de Moxos year-round, so the Manú geese represent a partial migration from the Bení region. We hypothesize that cavity nest limitation explains the partial migration of Orinoco Geese from the Llanos de Moxos.
DOI: 10.5284/1018290
title: Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD: A Chronological Framework

description: The Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterised archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material than to solve them. Prior to the work of this project, there was no comprehensive chronological framework for Early Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, and the level of detail and precision in dates that could be suggested was low. The evidence has been studied afresh using a co-ordinated suite of dating techniques, both traditional and new: a review and revision of artefact-typology; seriation of grave-assemblages using correspondence analysis; high-precision radiocarbon dating of selected bone samples; and Bayesian modelling using the results of all of these. This integrated strategy was focussed primarily on the later part of the Early Anglo-Saxon Period, starting in the 6th century. The work has produced a new chronological framework, consisting of sequences of phases that are separate for male and female burials but nevertheless mutually consistent and co-ordinated. These will allow archaeologists to assign grave-assemblages and a wide range of individual artefact-types to defined phases that are associated with calendrical date-ranges whose limits are expressed to a specific degree of probability. Important unresolved issues include a precise adjustment for dietary effects on radiocarbon dates from human skeletal material. Nonetheless the results of this project suggest the cessation of regular burial with grave goods in Anglo-Saxon England two decades or even more before the end of the seventh century. That creates a limited but important discrepancy with the current numismatic chronology of early English sceattas. The digital data-set includes data-matrices and tables in spreadsheet form that are too large for paper publication. These are referred to in the printed report of the project as 'e-Figures'. E-Figure 7.4 is a directory containing five files that define the structure of a Bayesian model examining the chronological distribution of types of glass bead.
DOI: 10.5284/1017440
title: Dendrochronology Database

description: This resource consists of the tree-ring dates for 3300 buildings in the United Kingdom, ranging from cathedrals to cottages and barns. The database holds period, location and reference information for each record. It also includes a few buildings that have been dated by high precision radiocarbon dating, and the names of buildings for which dating was attempted but not successful.
DOI: 10.5443/11468
title: Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen from multiple species of invertebrates, teleosts, elasmobranchs, and marine mammals sampled in Cumberland Sound, 2007-2009

description: Samples of macroaglae (Fucus distichus), several zooplankton species (e.g. Calanus hyperboreus, Sagitta spp.), benthic invertebrates (e.g. scallop Chlamys islandica, snail Buccinum cyaneum, clam Hiatella arctica), teleosts (herring Clupea harengus, capelin Mallotus villosus, char Salvelinus alpines, sculpin Myoxocephalus scorpioides (adults and larvae), turbot Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), two elasmobranchs (arctic skate Amblyraja hyperborea, Greenland shark Somniosus microcephalus), two pinnipeds (harp seal Pagophilus groenlandicus, ringed seal Pusa hispida) and two cetacean (beluga whale Delphinapterus leucas , narwhal Monodon monoceros) species were collected from Cumberland Sound (Nunavut). Zooplankton were sampled by surface horizontal tows and vertical hauls using a plankton net. Benthic invertebrates were sampled by ponar or dip net, herring, char and sculpin by gillnet, capelin by dip net and turbot, arctic skate and Greenland sharks by bottom long line. Marine mammals were sampled during Inuit subsistence hunts. Stable isotopes of nitrogen and carbon were analyzed from freeze dried, homogenized and lipid extracted (using 2:1 chloroform:methanol) whole zooplankton, soft tissues of benthic molluscs, and muscle tissues of fish, elasmobranchs and marine mammals. Following pre-treatment (i.e. lipid extraction), approximately 0.5 mg of each sample was weighed into tin capsules and run on a continuous-flow isotope ratio mass spectrometer (Delta V Advantage, Thermo Electron). Replicate analyses of NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standard bovine muscle (NIST 8414, N = 70) and internal lab standard (tilapia muscle, N = 7) yielded a precision (i.e. one standard deviation) of 0.14 and 0.25 per mil. for delta 15N and 0.07 and 0.10 per mil. for delta 13C, respectively. Samples were collected during both summer/open water (early August) and late winter/ice cover (early April) to explore seasonal changes in species' stable isotopes and overall shifts in food web structure.
description: Purpose: As the largest fish and most prolific eater in the Arctic seas, the Greenland shark is a very unique vertebrate in the Arctic ecosystem. Given their diet, Greenland sharks hold a position in the food web similar to that of polar bears. Little is known about how these sharks behave or how their behaviour might shift in response to changes in climate. Given their importance in the Arctic food web, this project is assessing the feeding ecology and behaviour of the Greenland shark under different ice conditions to determine how different environments affect this fish. This assessment involves the analysis of stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen from multiple species of invertebrates, teleosts, elasmobranchs, and marine mammals sampled in Cumberland Sound in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
description: Summary: Not Applicable