cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nb267
title: Data from: Repeated evolution of carnivory among Indo-Australian rodents

description: Convergent evolution, often observed in island archipelagos, provides
 compelling evidence for the importance of natural selection as a generator
 of species and ecological diversity. The Indo-Australian Archipelago (IAA)
 is the world's largest island system and encompasses distinct
 biogeographic units, including the Asian (Sunda) and Australian (Sahul)
 continental shelves, which together bracket the oceanic archipelagos of
 the Philippines and Wallacea. Each of these biogeographic units houses
 numerous endemic rodents in the family Muridae. Carnivorous murids, i.e.,
 those that feed on animals, have evolved independently in Sunda, Sulawesi
 (part of Wallacea), the Philippines, and Sahul, but the number of origins
 of carnivory among IAA murids is unknown. We conducted a comprehensive
 phylogenetic analysis of carnivorous murids of the IAA, combined with
 estimates of ancestral states for broad diet categories (herbivore,
 omnivore, and carnivore) and geographic ranges. These analyses demonstrate
 that carnivory evolved independently four times after over-water
 colonization, including in situ origins on the Philippines, Sulawesi, and
 Sahul. In each biogeographic unit the origin of carnivory was followed by
 evolution of more specialized carnivorous ecomorphs such as vermivores,
 insectivores, and amphibious rats.
description: Supporting Information
 Table 1Dietary data and
 references.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gp350rt
title: Data from: Conservation priorities for endangered coastal North African Pennisetum glaucum L. landrace populations as inferred from phylogenetic considerations and population structure analysis

description: The increasing anthropologic pressure and the modernization of agriculture
 have led to a forsaking of pearl millet traditional cultivars inducing a
 progressive loss of the genetic variability encompassed in this
 locally-adapted germplasm. Imperatively, national efforts based on robust
 data gleaned from genetic surveys have to be undertaken in order to set up
 suitable conservation priorities. Inthis study, in addition to the
 assessment of the genetic diversity and population structure among and
 within a set of seven pearl millet landrace populations from coastal North
 Africa, demographic and phylogenetic data, conservation priority scores
 were calculated according to Vane-Wright et al. (1991). To date, genetic
 diversity of pearl millet in North Africa is still poorly documented. The
 present survey reports for the first time the use of highly informative
 nSSR markers (PIC =0.74) on P. glaucum landraces representative of the
 Mediterranean coastline of North Africa. A high level of genetic diversity
 was obtained within the investigated landraces (He=0.80) at the population
 level. FST, AFC-3D and Bayesian clustering underlined significant
 differentiation and an apparent genetic structure according to
 geographical origin. Phylogenetic considerations integrated with
 demographic and genetic information enabled conclusive inferences of
 highly prioritized populations for conservation. Populations Haouaria,
 Hammem Laghzez, Mahdia and Medenine representatives of the main pearl
 millet growing areas in Tunisia and cultivated in the North African
 littoral should be strongly recommended for an ex-situ conservation
 program. Dynamic on-farm conservation method is also required as it allows
 to the local landraces to evolve in different environments while
 maintaining their adaptation potentials.
description: dryad id
 accessionsThe submitted table
 includes the accessions' names of the species Pennisetum glaucum L.
 collected from coastal North Africa along with their origin, their
 respective conservation sites, the characteristics of the prospecting
 sites and the microsatellite fingerprint data.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b167g
title: Data from: Mouthpart conduit sizes of fluid-feeding insects determine the ability to feed from pores

description: Fluid-feeding insects, such as butterflies, moths and flies (20% of all
 animal species), are faced with the common selection pressure of having to
 remove and feed on trace amounts of fluids from porous surfaces. Insects
 able to acquire fluids that are confined to pores during drought
 conditions would have an adaptive advantage and increased fitness over
 other individuals. Here, we performed feeding trials using solutions with
 magnetic nanoparticles to show that butterflies and flies have mouthparts
 adapted to pull liquids from porous surfaces using capillary action as the
 governing principle. In addition, the ability to feed on the liquids
 collected from pores depends on a relationship between the diameter of the
 mouthpart conduits and substrate pore size diameter; insects with
 mouthpart conduit diameters larger than the pores cannot successfully
 feed, thus there is a limiting substrate pore size from which each species
 can acquire liquids for fluid uptake. Given that natural selection
 independently favoured mouthpart architectures that support these methods
 of fluid uptake (Diptera and Lepidoptera share a common ancestor 280 Ma
 that had chewing mouthparts), we suggest that the convergence of this
 mechanism advocates this as an optimal strategy for pulling trace amounts
 of fluids from porous surfaces.
description: Data for Limiting Pore
 Size EstimatesThe data file (excel)
 provides information on mouthpart conduit sizes for each tested species,
 the pore size from which they were fed, and the presence/absence of
 nanoparticles in their crops. The presence of nanoparticles indicated the
 ability to feed.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mb622
title: Data from: Altered embryonic development in northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) induced by pre-incubation oscillatory thermal stresses mimicking global warming predictions

description: Global warming is likely to alter reproductive success of ground-nesting
 birds that lay eggs normally left unattended for days or even weeks before
 actual parental incubation, especially in already warm climates. The
 native North American bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) is such a
 species, and pre-incubation quail eggs may experience temperatures
 &gt;45°C. Yet, almost nothing is known about embryonic survival after
 such high pre-incubation temperatures. Freshly laid bobwhite quail eggs
 were exposed during a 12 day pre-incubation period to one of five thermal
 regimes: low oscillating temperatures (25-40°C, mean=28.9°C), high
 oscillating temperatures (30-45°C, mean=33.9°C), low constant temperatures
 (28.85°C), high constant temperatures (mean=33.9°C), or commercially
 employed pre-incubation temperatures (20°C). After treatment, eggs were
 then incubated at a standard 37.5°C to determine subsequent effects on
 embryonic development rate, survival, water loss, hatching, and embryonic
 oxygen consumption. Both quantity of heating degree hours during
 pre-incubation and specific thermal regime (oscillating vs.
 non-oscillating) profoundly affected important aspects of embryo survival
 and indices of development and growth Pre-incubation quail eggs showed a
 remarkable tolerance to constant high temperatures (up to 45°C), surviving
 for 4.5±0.3 days of subsequent incubation, but high oscillating
 pre-incubation temperature increased embryo survival (mean survival
 12.2±1.8 days) and led to more rapid development than high constant
 temperature (maximum 38.5ºC), even though both groups experienced the same
 total heating degree-hours. Oxygen consumption was ~200-300 μl
 O2.egg.min-1 at hatching in all groups, and was not affected by
 pre-incubation conditions. Oscillating temperatures, which are the norm
 for pre-incubation quail eggs in their natural habitat, thus enhanced
 survival at higher temperatures. However, a 5°C increase in pre-incubation
 temperature, which equates to the predicted long-term increases of 5°C or
 more, nonetheless reduced hatching rate by approximately 50%. Thus, while
 pre-incubation bobwhite eggs may be resiliant to moderate oscillating
 temperature increases, global warming will likely severely impact wild
 bobwhite quail populations, especially in their strongholds in southern
 latitudes.
description: ReynaBurggren_MetaDataData associated with Reyna and Burggren, 2017. Altered Embryonic Development in Northern Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) Induced By Pre-incubation Oscillatory Thermal Stresses Mimicking Global Warming Predictions
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1bp46
title: Data from: Plasticity in thermal tolerance has limited potential to buffer ectotherms from global warming

description: Global warming is increasing the overheating risk for many organisms,
 though the potential for plasticity in thermal tolerance to mitigate this
 risk is largely unknown. In part, this shortcoming stems from a lack of
 knowledge about global and taxonomic patterns of variation in tolerance
 plasticity. To address this critical issue, we test leading hypotheses for
 broad-scale variation in ectotherm tolerance plasticity using a dataset
 that includes vertebrate and invertebrate taxa from terrestrial,
 freshwater and marine habitats. Contrary to expectation, plasticity in
 heat tolerance was unrelated to latitude or thermal seasonality. However,
 plasticity in cold tolerance is associated with thermal seasonality in
 some habitat types. In addition, aquatic taxa have approximately twice the
 plasticity of terrestrial taxa. Based on the observed patterns of
 variation in tolerance plasticity, we propose that limited potential for
 behavioural plasticity (i.e. behavioural thermoregulation) favours the
 evolution of greater plasticity in physiological traits, consistent with
 the ‘Bogert effect’. Finally, we find that all ectotherms have relatively
 low acclimation in thermal tolerance and demonstrate that overheating risk
 will be minimally reduced by acclimation in even the most plastic groups.
 Our analysis indicates that behavioural and evolutionary mechanisms will
 be critical in allowing ectotherms to buffer themselves from extreme
 temperatures.
description: Supplementary data
 table
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7hg87
title: Data from: Diversity and tectonics: predictions from neutral theory

description: Numerical simulations of neutral metacommunities are used here to predict
 the effects of growth and shrinkage of metacommunities, as well as their
 separation and merging caused by continental collision and rifting and
 their secondary eustatic effects. Although growth and shrinkage of
 metacommunities predictably change diversity, separating and merging
 metacommunities have counterintuitive effects. Separating and merging
 metacommunities changes diversity within the individual areas, especially
 so for smaller areas, but they cause no change in total diversity of the
 system, contrary to previous predictions. The response times of
 metacommunities are likely to be geologically undetectable except for
 enormously large systems. These models can be used to predict the
 plate-tectonic effects on the diversity of terrestrial, coastal-marine,
 deep-marine, and oceanic island systems. Of these, global and regional
 coastal-marine systems are the most acutely sensitive to the changes in
 area and fragmentation caused by plate tectonics. Oceanic island systems
 also experience global and regional changes in diversity during
 supercontinent breakup and assembly, with the global effects driven by the
 changing length of volcanic arcs, and the regional effects also driven by
 secondary eustatic changes in shallow-marine area. Although individual
 terrestrial provinces or continents may experience substantial changes in
 diversity from rifting and collision, global terrestrial diversity should
 be unchanged except for the relatively modest contributions caused by the
 secondary eustatic effects on land area. These changes in diversity may be
 reinforced or counteracted by the changing latitudinal position of
 metacommunities.
description: HollandTectonicsDiversityRCodeThis file contains the R code necessary to simulate a metacommunity, as well as the commands used to generate figures 2–5 in the paper.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8kv341d
title: Data from: Selection for relative brain size affects context-dependent male preferences, but not discrimination, of female body size in guppies

description: Understanding what drives animal decisions is fundamental in evolutionary
 biology, and mate choice decisions are arguably some of the most important
 decisions in any individual's life. As cognitive ability can impact
 decision-making, elucidating the link between mate choice and cognitive
 ability is necessary to fully understand mate choice. To experimentally
 study this link, we used guppies (Poecilia reticulata) artificially
 selected for divergence in relative brain size and with previously
 demonstrated differences in cognitive ability. A previous test in our
 female guppy selection lines demonstrated the impact of brain size and
 cognitive ability on information processing during female mate choice
 decisions. Here we evaluated the effect of brain size and cognitive
 ability on male mate choice decisions. Specifically, we investigated the
 preferences of large-brained, small-brained, and non-selected guppy males
 for female body size, a key indicator of female fecundity in this species.
 For this, male preferences were quantified in dichotomous choice tests
 when presented to dyads of females with small, medium and large body size
 differences. All types of males showed preference for larger females but
 no effect of brain size was found in the ability to discriminate between
 differently sized females. However, we found that non-selected and
 large-brained males, but not small-brained males, showed context-dependent
 preferences for larger females depending on the difference in female size.
 Our results have two important implications. First, they provide further
 evidence that male mate choice occurs also in a species in which secondary
 sexual ornamentation occurs only in males. Second, they show that brain
 size and cognitive ability have important effects on individual variation
 in mating preferences and sexually selected traits.
description: Preference for larger
 females in guppiesData obtained in
 dichotomous choice tests evaluating male preference for larger females in
 guppies selected for large and small relative brain size, as well as in
 non-selected individuals. Description of variables provided in README
 fileCorraletal2018_JEB_guppymalechoice.csv
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18363052
title: Маса зерна головного колосу сортів м'якої озимої пшениці лісостепового, степового та західноєвропейського екотипів у 2021-2023 роках
title: Grain weight of the main ear of soft winter wheat varieties of forest-steppe, steppe and Western European ecotypes in 2021-2023

description: Відображено результати досліджень  маси зерна головного колосу сортів пшениці м'якої озимої лісостепового, степового, західноєвропейського екотипів у 2021–2023 роках, які вирощували в умовах дослідного поля навчально-виробничого центру Білоцерківського національного аграрного університету.

Для кожного сорту вказано три повторення за біометричного аналізу по 25-и рослинах та середнє значення.

Набір даних дозволяє здійснювати порівняльний аналіз досліджуваних сортів, оцінювати стабільність прояву та норму реакції досліджуваних сортів за масою зерна з головного колоса у різні за метеорологічними умовами роки та використовувати отримані дані у селекційних програмах.
description: The results of studies on the grain weight of the main ear of soft winter wheat varieties of Forest-Steppe, Steppe, and Western European ecotypes in 2021–2023, grown in the experimental field of the educational and production centre of the Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, are presented.

For each variety, three repetitions of biometric analysis of 25 plants and the average value are indicated.

The dataset allows for a comparative analysis of the studied varieties, assessment of the stability of manifestation and reaction rate of the studied varieties in terms of grain weight from the main ear in years with different meteorological conditions, and use of the obtained data in breeding programmes.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18363053
title: Маса зерна головного колосу сортів м'якої озимої пшениці лісостепового, степового та західноєвропейського екотипів у 2021-2023 роках
title: Grain weight of the main ear of soft winter wheat varieties of forest-steppe, steppe and Western European ecotypes in 2021-2023

description: Відображено результати досліджень  маси зерна головного колосу сортів пшениці м'якої озимої лісостепового, степового, західноєвропейського екотипів у 2021–2023 роках, які вирощували в умовах дослідного поля навчально-виробничого центру Білоцерківського національного аграрного університету.

Для кожного сорту вказано три повторення за біометричного аналізу по 25-и рослинах та середнє значення.

Набір даних дозволяє здійснювати порівняльний аналіз досліджуваних сортів, оцінювати стабільність прояву та норму реакції досліджуваних сортів за масою зерна з головного колоса у різні за метеорологічними умовами роки та використовувати отримані дані у селекційних програмах.
description: The results of studies on the grain weight of the main ear of soft winter wheat varieties of Forest-Steppe, Steppe, and Western European ecotypes in 2021–2023, grown in the experimental field of the educational and production centre of the Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University, are presented.

For each variety, three repetitions of biometric analysis of 25 plants and the average value are indicated.

The dataset allows for a comparative analysis of the studied varieties, assessment of the stability of manifestation and reaction rate of the studied varieties in terms of grain weight from the main ear in years with different meteorological conditions, and use of the obtained data in breeding programmes.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.g2q42
title: Data from: Description and preliminary results from a structured specialist behavioural weight management group intervention: Specialist Lifestyle Management (SLiM) Programme

description: Background: Specialist Lifestyle Management (SLiM) is a structured patient
 education and self-management group weight management programme. Each
 session is run monthly over a 6-month period providing a less intensive
 long-term approach. The groups are patient-centred incorporating
 educational, motivational, behavioural and cognitive elements. The
 theoretical background, programme structure and preliminary results of
 SLiM are presented. Subjects/methods: The study was a pragmatic service
 evaluation of obese patients with a body mass index (BMI) ≥35 kg/m2 with
 comorbidity or ≥40 kg/m2 without comorbidity referred to a specialist
 weight management service in the West Midlands, UK. 828 patients were
 enrolled within SLiM over a 48-month period. Trained facilitators
 delivered the programme. Preliminary anonymised data were analysed using
 the intention-to-treat principle. The primary outcome measure was weight
 loss at 3 and 6 months with comparisons between completers and
 non-completers performed. The last observation carried forward was used
 for missing data. Results: Of the 828 enrolled within SLiM, 464 completed
 the programme (56%). The mean baseline weight was 135 kg (BMI=49.1 kg/m2)
 with 87.2% of patients having a BMI≥40 kg/m2 and 12.4% with BMI≥60 kg/m2.
 The mean weight change of all patients enrolled was −4.1 kg (95% CI −3.6
 to −4.6 kg, p=0.0001) at the end of SLiM, with completers (n=464)
 achieving −5.5 kg (95% CI −4.2 to −6.2 kg, p=0.0001) and non-completers
 achieving −2.3 kg (p=0.0001). The majority (78.6%) who attended the
 6-month programme achieved weight loss with 32.3% achieving a ≥5% weight
 loss. Conclusions: The SLiM programme is an effective group intervention
 for the management of severe and complex obesity.
description: BMJOpen-2014-007217R1Microsoft Excel File
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8tq23
title: Data from: The sign of cascading predator effects varies with prey traits in a detrital system

description: 1. Theory and experiments show that the nature of ‘green’ trophic
 cascades, between predators, herbivores and plants, varies with several
 key species traits: predator hunting mode and predator and prey habitat
 domains. Meanwhile, ‘brown’ cascades between predators,
 environment-modifying detritivores and plants have been largely overlooked
 and the roles of species traits, particularly prey traits, in determining
 the nature of these cascades remains unclear. 2. We hypothesize that, in
 predator–detritivore–plant interaction chains, the burrowing ability of
 plant-facilitating detritivores determines their response to predators and
 thus the sign of indirect effect transmitted. In the dung-decomposer food
 web of an alpine meadow, we predicted that in the presence of above-ground
 predacious beetles: (i) non-burrowing detritivores will suffer mortality
 due to predation and transmit negative indirect effects to plants, whereas
 (ii) burrowing detritivores will escape predation by retreating deeper
 into the soil, transmitting positive indirect effects to plants. 3. In
 support of predictions, experiments showed that a single species of
 predacious beetle (i) reduced the density of the non-burrowing species and
 indirectly reduced dung loss rate, soil nutrient concentrations and plant
 biomass, but (ii) drove the burrowing species deeper, indirectly improved
 soil conditions and increased plant biomass. 4. These results show that
 the burrowing ability of a detritivore can determine whether it transmits
 a negative indirect effect mediated by a reduction in its density, or a
 positive indirect effect mediated by its behavioural response to predation
 risk. 5. We call for further tests of our detritivore-trait hypothesis in
 different regions and ecosystems to further develop a general trait-based
 framework for trophic cascades in detrital food webs. We further advance
 the general hypothesis that the locomotion traits of prey species (e.g.
 burrowing/flying ability) may help explain their behavioural response to
 predation risk and the nature of indirect effect they transmit from
 predators to plants.
description: DatasetResults of both plant-soil experiment and prey -response experiment