cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7m13q9b
title: Data from: Varying dataset resolution alters predictive accuracy of spatially explicit ensemble models for avian species distribution

description: Species distribution models can be made more accurate by use of new
 “Spatiotemporal Exploratory Models” (STEMs), a type of spatially explicit
 ensemble model (SEEM) developed at the continental scale that averages
 regional models pixel by pixel. Although SEEMs can generate more accurate
 predictions of species distributions, they are computationally expensive.
 We compared the accuracies of each model for 11 grassland bird species,
 and examined whether they improve accuracy at a statewide scale for fine
 and coarse predictor resolutions. We used a combination of survey data and
 citizen science data for 11 grassland bird species in Oklahoma to test a
 spatially explicit ensemble model at a smaller scale for its effects on
 accuracy of current models. We found that only four species performed best
 with either a statewide model or SEEM; the most accurate model for the
 remaining seven species varied with data resolution and performance
 measure. Policy implications: Determination of non-heterogeneity may
 depend on the spatial resolution of the examined dataset. Managers should
 be cautious if any regional differences are expected when developing
 policy from rangewide results that show a single model or timeframe. We
 recommend use of standard species distribution models or other types of
 non-spatially explicit ensemble models for local species prediction
 models. Further study is necessary to understand at what point SEEMs
 become necessary with varying dataset resolutions.
description: Zip file containing code
 and data for Curry et al. 2018Project: VARYING DATASET
 RESOLUTION ALTERS PREDICTIVE ACCURACY OF SPATIALLY EXPLICIT ENSEMBLE
 MODELS FOR AVIAN SPECIES DISTRIBUTION Accepted in Ecology and Evolution
 12-Oct-2018. Versioning visible at:
 https://github.com/baeolophus/ou-grassland-bird-survey Please contact
 Claire M. Curry (cmcurry@ou.edu or curryclairem@gmail.com) about the *.R
 files or Jeremy Ross (jdross@ou.edu) about the point count and transect
 data. See README.txt for more information.CurryEtAl2018.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.df98r
title: Data from: Correlative changes in life history variables in response to environmental change in a model organism

description: Global change alters the environment, including increases in the frequency
 of (un)favorable events and shifts in environmental noise color. However,
 how these changes impact the dynamics of populations, and whether these
 can be predicted accurately has been largely unexamined. Here we combine
 recently developed population modeling approaches and theory in stochastic
 demography to explore how life history, morphology, and average fitness
 respond to changes in the frequency of favorable environmental conditions
 and in the color of environmental noise in a model organism (an acarid
 mite). We predict that different life-history variables respond
 correlatively to changes in the environment, and we identify different
 life-history variables, including lifetime reproductive success, as
 indicators of average fitness and life-history speed across stochastic
 environments. Depending on the shape of adult survival rate, generation
 time can be used as an indicator of the response of populations to
 stochastic change, as in the deterministic case. This work is a useful
 step toward understanding population dynamics in stochastic environments,
 including how stochastic change may shape the evolution of life histories.
description: Growth and survival data
 of R. robiniData on growth and
 survival of Rhizoglyphus robini females raised in a good (yeast) or a bad
 (filter paper) environment. Mites were reared individually and always had
 ad lib access to their food. These data were used to estimate the Gompertz
 functions (see Methods) and character-demography functions of the Integral
 Projection Model (see Methods).Smallegange_etal_2014AmNat_Dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mc132
title: Data from: Playing it safe? behavioural responses of mosquito larvae encountering a fish predator

description: Predation is a strong selective force that affects prey population and
 ecosystem dynamics. Detecting predators and associated levels of threat is
 crucial to prey responses. Once a predator is detected, anti-predatory
 responses improve the chances of survival of prey. We used Aedes aegypti
 larvae to study behavioural responses to predation threat from guppies
 (Poecilia reticulata). Specifically, we tested the relative importance of
 chemical cues, both in isolation and in combination with physical cues, in
 eliciting anti-predatory behaviours. Larvae responded more strongly, by
 reducing the lengths of their wriggle bursts, when presented with a
 combination of chemical and physical cues than with chemical cues alone.
 Anti-predatory responses often come with an associated cost, and we expect
 that the ability to pay these costs should influence responses to
 predation risk. To test this, we compared wriggling patterns of satiated
 vs starved larvae in the same experiment. We found that, under predation
 risk, starved larvae were willing to take more risks than satiated larvae
 were. We sought to experimentally test the assumption that anti-predator
 behaviours increase the survival of prey. To do this, starved guppies were
 made to choose between displays of simulated larvae, moving in short and
 long wriggle bursts as observed in the previous experiment. The fish
 preferentially attacked larvae moving in long bursts, demonstrating the
 survival value of the larval anti-predatory response of shifting to a
 preponderance of short wriggle bursts.Our study identifies specific ways
 in which trade-offs between predation risk and energetic costs could
 affect anti-predator behaviour.
description: Raw data for experiment
 I: Larval behaviourThis .csv file contains
 data on larval wriggle count, wriggle burst length, surface visit
 frequency and time spent at the water surface.exp.1.data.csvRaw data for experiment II: Predator responses to altered larval behaviourThis .csv file contains data on preference shown by fish to spot digital mosquito larvae simulated to wriggle in short and long bursts of wriggles.exp.2.data.csvR code - TEEE 1313785R code for visualisation and analysis of data
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.28032r2
title: Data from: Quantitative measure of fitness in tri-trophic interactions and its influence on diet breadth of insect herbivores

description: Herbivore-plant interactions should be studied using a tri-trophic
 approach, but we lack a quantitative measure of the combined effect of
 top-down and bottom-up forces on herbivore fitness. We propose the
 combination of the bi-trophic fitness slopes as a tri-trophic fitness
 measure. We use the relationship between fitness associated with top-down
 and bottom-up forces and the frequency of host-plant use to calculate the
 top-down and bottom-up fitness slopes, which we then combine to obtain
 three possible directions of tri-trophic slopes. A positive tri-trophic
 slope indicates that herbivores have overall greater tri-trophic fitness
 on the more frequently used hosts. A null tri-trophic fitness slope
 indicates that herbivores have similar fitness on all host-plants. A
 negative tri-trophic slope indicates that herbivores have generally lower
 fitness on the more frequently used hosts. We tested the explanation power
 of our method using data from the literature that tested herbivore host
 shifts and experimentally using a generalist herbivore with variable diet
 breadth across populations. We found that in host shifts, herbivores have
 higher tri-trophic fitness on the novel host, while in generalist
 populations, herbivores use most frequently the best host available. We
 present applications in other research areas and consider the limitations
 of our approach. Our approach is a first step towards a comprehensive
 model of multiple selective forces acting on the evolution of
 interactions.
description: tri-trophic slopes for
 dryad
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.683870h
title: Data from: Cultural flies: conformist social learning in fruit flies predicts long-lasting mate-choice traditions

description: Despite theoretical justification for the evolution of animal culture,
 there is still scant empirical evidence for it beyond mammals and birds,
 and we still know little about the process of cultural inheritance. Here,
 we propose a mechanism-driven definition of animal culture and test it in
 the fruit fly. We found that fruit flies have five cognitive capacities
 that enable them to transmit mating preferences culturally across
 generations, potentially fostering persistent traditions (the main marker
 of culture) in mating preference. A transmission chain experiment
 validates a model of the emergence of local traditions indicating that
 such social transmission may lead initially neutral traits to become
 adaptive, hence strongly selecting for copying and conformity, a situation
 that, although suggested decades ago, still had little empirical support.
description: R Code for
 simulationsR Code for simulations
 described in Danchin et al.CulturalFlies_Danchin et
 alData of the experiments
 described in Danchin et al.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vv08k
title: Data from: Effects of female reproductive competition on birth rate and reproductive scheduling in a historical human population

description: Costly reproductive competition among females is predicted to lead to
 strategies that reduce these costs, such as reproductive schedules.
 Simultaneous births of co-resident women in human families can reduce
 their infant survival, but whether such competition also affects overall
 birth rates and whether females time their pregnancies to avoid
 simultaneous births remain unknown, despite being key questions for
 understanding how intra-female competition affects reproductive
 strategies. Here, we used detailed parish registers to study female
 reproductive competition in historical Finnish joint –families, where
 brothers stayed on their natal farms and sisters married out, and
 consequently unrelated daughters-in-law often co-resided and competed for
 household resources. We quantified the time-varying effects of having
 reproductive-aged competitor(s) on a woman’s interval from marriage to
 first childbirth, on age-specific fertility, and on birth scheduling.
 Contrary to our hypothesis, the presence of one or several potential
 female competitors did not lead to longer first birth intervals or lower
 age-specific probability of reproduction. We also found no evidence that
 women would schedule their reproduction to avoid the real cost of
 simultaneous births on their offspring mortality risk; age-specific
 reproductive rates were unaltered by changes in the presence of other
 infants in the household. These results raise interesting questions
 regarding the evolution of fertility suppression in social mammals in
 different contexts, the costs and benefits of extended families for female
 reproductive success and strategies deployed, and the cultural practices
 that may help to avoid the negative outcomes of female reproductive
 competition in human families.
description: Presence of competitor
 and first birth interval dataContains first birth
 intervals (FBI) and predictors used in this studyFBI_data.csvCompetition and age-specific fertilityContains data of age-specific fertility, presence of competition, competition overlap and predictors used in this study.fecundity_data.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6k34vs0
title: Data from: The evolution of ontogenetic allometric trajectories in mammalian domestication

description: Morphological divergence of domesticated as compared to wild forms must
 result from changes in the ontogenetic process. Species-specific tests for
 heterochrony have rejected a single explanation of domestic forms
 representing juveniles of their wild relatives. Ontogenetic allometric
 trajectories for 12 pairs of wild and domestic mammals were examined using
 skull growth data for 1070 specimens, including representatives from all
 lineages in which domestication has occurred. A suite of tests were
 performed to quantify allometric disparity in wild and domestic forms and
 assess the extent and patterning of modification to allometric
 trajectories. Domestication has modified postnatal ontogenetic allometric
 trajectories in mammals, and has generated disparity, achieved through
 lengthening of trajectory slopes and alteration to slope angles.
 Allometric disparity was similar for domestic forms compared to their wild
 relatives, whereas the magnitude of dispersion along allometric vectors
 differed between precocial mammals and altricial mammals, underscoring the
 importance of life history and shared evolutionary history in patterns of
 ontogenetic variation. The results verify the importance of scaling in the
 morphological changes associated with domestication. The response to
 domestication for all measured trajectory parameters was variable across
 species, suggesting multiple pathways of change.
description: Raw data matrix of shape
 and size variablesData matrix of
 Mosimann's shape ratios (14 measurement variables for the skull) and
 size (geometric mean) for all specimens (N = 1070). Please see the README
 file for full details of all measurements, abbreviations and data fields
 used in the raw file.Raw data matrix Mosimann shape
 ratios.txt
DOI: 10.15468/dl.spbve6
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 6192 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "DatasetKey" : [
 "is NE Scotland fish records 1800-2010"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 6192 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0000688-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8391t
title: Data from: Diplostigmaty in plants: a novel mechanism that provides reproductive assurance

description: Differentiation of female sexual organs in flowering plants is rare, and
 contrasts with the wide range of male reproductive strategies. An unusual
 example involves diplostigmaty, the possession of spatially and temporally
 distinct stigmas in Sebaea (Gentianaceae). Here, the single pistil within
 a flower has an apical stigma, as occurs in most flowering plants, but
 also a secondary stigma that occurs mid-way down the style, which is
 physically discrete and receptive several days after the apical stigma. We
 examined the function of diplostigmaty in S. aurea, an insect-pollinated
 species of the western Cape of South Africa. Floral manipulations and
 measurements of fertility and mating patterns provided evidence that basal
 stigmas function to enable autonomous delayed self-pollination, without
 limiting opportunities for outcrossing, and thus avoiding the costs of
 seed discounting. We suggest that delayed selfing serves as a mechanism of
 reproductive assurance in populations with low plant density. The
 possession of dimorphic stigma function provides a novel example of a
 flexible mixed mating strategy in plants that is responsive to changing
 demographic conditions.
description: Raw_DataSeed set of manipulated flowers (Excel sheet one) and microsatellite data (Excel sheet two). Pop = population, ind = individual, rank = flower position, treat = treatment, seednb = seed set. Treatments are: (a) open-pollination of intact flowers; (b) emasculation of anthers prior to anthesis; (c) apical stigma removed before receptivity; (d) emasculation and apical stigma removed; (e) pollen supplementation using outcross pollen applied to apical stigmas.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0v9n6j4
title: Data from: Aging in an herbaceous plant: increases in mortality and decreases in physiology and seed mass

description: 1. Little is known about plant age-dependent trait expression and how
 environmental conditions might affect aging in the wild. This study
 evaluates age variation in multiple traits of a short-lived perennial herb
 using a manipulative field experimental design. 2. Two different-aged
 cohorts were followed in a field plot for over a year to evaluate trait
 expression in response to a competition treatment and seasonal stress.
 Traits measured included size, mortality, reproduction, and physiology,
 including photosynthetic efficiency and chlorophyll content (SPAD). We
 hypothesized that the stress of competition and seasonal changes would
 accentuate age-dependent trait declines in older plants. 3. The results
 highlight consistent age differences in plant size, mortality, and seed
 size with older plants being smaller, more likely to die, and producing
 smaller seeds. Some of the aging declines were sensitive to environmental
 conditions such that it was only during certain seasons when older plants
 had higher mortality, lower photosynthetic efficiency, and lower
 chlorophyll content than young plants. Age-dependent trait expression also
 varied in response to competition such that age differences in size were
 only present in the ‘no competition treatment,’ and old individuals in the
 competition treatment had a higher mortality than all other
 age-environment combinations. 4. Synthesis. These findings show that aging
 in plants is a complex phenotype where declines in traits are
 uncoordinated and can be, but are not always, sensitive to environmental
 conditions. This study shows age-dependent maternal effects on offspring
 quality which, together with the decline in performance of older
 individuals, may have impacts on an individual’s fitness and on natural
 population demography.
description: Size and Physiology
 DataSize and physiology data
 for all plants across the course of the experiment.Total Reproduction
 DataTotal number of
 inflorescences for all plants in the experiment.Seed
 DataInflorescence weight,
 seed number, seed weight, and germination data.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sq651
title: Data from: Variation in laying date in relation to spring temperature in three species of tits (Paridae) and pied flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca in southernmost Sweden

description: This study documents the advancement of laying dates in three species of
 tits (Paridae) in southernmost Sweden during recent decades, and the
 absence of a similar response in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca.
 It is based on several different nestbox studies; the oldest one starting
 in 1969. During 1969 to 2012, mean spring temperatures in the study area
 increased by between 0.06 and 0.08°C per year, depending on the period
 considered. Great tits Parus major, blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus and
 marsh tits Poecile palustris, which generally start egg laying between the
 last week of April and the first week of May, all advanced laying date at
 a similar rate during the study period (0.25 d yr–1). This indicates that
 these species were similarly affected by increasing temperatures. When
 accounting for mean spring temperature variation, we still found an
 advancement of laying date over the study period, mostly due to such
 relationships among marsh and blue tits. This result could reflect ongoing
 microevolution favouring earlier laying, but could also be a result of
 other factors such as increased intra- or inter-specific competition for
 early breeding. Pied flycatchers, which generally lay during the third
 week of May, did not significantly advance the date of egg laying despite
 that the long-term trend in the increase in ambient temperature during the
 30-d period preceding the start of egg laying was similar for pied
 flycatchers compared to the tit species.
description: All
 laydateFile All laydate: Year =
 year Sp = Species 1 = Marsh tit; 2 = Blue tit; 3 = Great tit; 4 = Pied
 flycatcher Reg. = Region 1 = Revinge; 2 = Linnebjer; 3 = Vomb; 4 = Dalby
 Norreskog; 5 = Frueräften; 6 = Kungsmarken Temp = Mean ambient temperature
 for the 30 d preceding the mean laying date for each species and year Date
 = Laying of the first egg in a clutch; 1 = 1 April Anno = Year since the
 first year in the study; 1 = 1969
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3n148
title: Data from: The promiscuous and the chaste: frequent allopolyploid speciation and its genomic consequences in American daisies (Melampodium sect. Melampodium; Asteraceae)

description: Polyploidy, an important factor in eukaryotic evolution, is especially
 abundant in angiosperms, where it often acts in concert with hybridization
 to produce allopolyploids. The application of molecular phylogenetic
 techniques has identified the origins of numerous allopolyploids, but
 little is known on genomic and chromosomal consequences of
 allopolyploidization, despite their important role in conferring
 divergence of allopolyploids from their parental species. Here, using
 several plastid and nuclear sequence markers, we clarify the origin of
 tetra- and hexaploids in a group of American daisies, allowing
 characterization of genome dynamics in polyploids compared to their
 diploid ancestors. All polyploid species are allopolyploids. Among the
 four diploid gene pools, the propensity for allopolyploidization is
 unevenly distributed phylogenetically with a few species apparently more
 prone to participate, but the underlying causes remain unclear. Polyploid
 genomes are characterized by differential loss of ribosomal DNA loci (5S
 and 35S rDNA), known hotspots of chromosomal evolution, but show genome
 size additivity, suggesting limited changes beyond those affecting rDNA
 loci or the presence of processes counterbalancing genome reduction.
 Patterns of rDNA sequence conversion and provenance of the lost loci are
 highly idiosyncratic and differ even between allopolyploids of identical
 parentage, indicating that allopolyploids deriving from the same
 lower-ploid parental species can follow different evolutionary
 trajectories.
description: Melampodium_Sericea_5S_spacer_completecomplete alignment of entire 5S rDNA spacer sequences of Melampodium sect. Melampodium; nexus fileMelampodium_Sericea_pgiCI_completecomplete alignment of partial pgiC paralogue 1 sequences of Melampodium sect. Melampodium; nexus fileMelampodium_Sericea_pgiCII_completecomplete alignment of partial pgiC paralogue 2 sequences of Melampodium sect. Melampodium; nexus file