cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593427
title: Preferred food difference by the gender: observation

description: This data set was collected based on observation only, to test the hypothesis that food preference vary between the gender. Observations were done in every Thursday of each week through September 24 to October 15, 2015, and pilot sampling was performed on the week of September 24. Each members of the group were assigned either fast food restaurant selling processed food, or health food restaurant selling natural foods. Both fast food and health food restaurants were picked within the vicinity of York lanes and Student centre in York University Keele campus. The group chose Wendy’s, Popeyes, and Hero Burger as fast food restaurants, and chose Bistro, La Prep, Barries and Bloom as health food restaurants based on their menu and visual observations. From 2:45pm to 3:45pm, each members of the group were assigned randomly to a restaurant listed, and recorded the numbers of males and females buying food without any direct or indirect contact with the visitors of the restaurants. Between 3:50 to 4:50, members were grouped in pairs and randomly assigned two restaurants, also recording the numbers of males and females. The defining of gender of the visitors were based on visual analyses such as face, hair, body shape, and clothing. Each members were assigned to the restaurants which they were not assigned before to minimize observer bias for the remaining sampling period. After the observation the group got together and recorded the data collected for each weeks.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593852.v1
title: Field experiment: Does abundance differ in mowed vs. un-mowed grassland and does pan colour influence abundance?

description: The data was collected on Thursday October 15, 2015 at 3:00-4:20 p.m and on October 22 at 3:07-4:27 p.m. The location of the study was at Danby grasslands at York University. The mowed and un-mowed areas of the grassland were tested for abundance of insects using pans of various colors, transects, strainer, tweezers, and soapy water. The sample size for mowed and un-mowed grassland was 24 pans. Data was collected by Stephanie, Alexander, Vivian, and Amandeep. A transect was randomly placed in the mowed and un-mowed area of the grassland. Three different coloured pans (yellow, white, blue) were placed along the transect 1 m apart in that order. The total length of the transect tape was 11 m for all four trials. There were two transects used for day 1 and two for day 2, with one at each site. Soapy water was added to each pan to capture insects. After duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes the number of insects in each pan was counted using a strainer and tweezers. The weather on day 1 and 2 was 16 degrees Celsius. It was cloudy with wind speed of 56 km/h on day 1 and was sunny with wind speed of 30 km/h on day 2. It was raining on day 1 when we ended the study because we did not want rain water to flood the pans while losing the insects captured. This study lasted only 1 hour and 20 minutes as a result. The same duration was used for the rest of the trials to maintain consistency. There were a few scattered trees in the un-mowed grassland, and almost none in mowed. There were lots of leaves on the ground. Common plants in the grassland were milkweed, golden rod, purple aster, white aster, common thistle. The mowed and un-mowed had the same plants but differed in height and density. The purpose of collecting this data set was to test whether there is a difference in abundance between mowed and un-mowed grassland, and if a certain coloured pan attracted more insects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1594077.v2
title: Correlation between invasive species European Buckthorn and surrounding species’ abundance

description: This study of correlation between invasive species European Buckthorn and surrounding species’ abundance was conducted in Boyer Woodlot, Saywell Woodlot and Osgoode Woodlot of York University by myself and two other group member: Laura and Kalvin on Oct 1, 8 and 15. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a connection between the invasive European Buckthorn and the richness of other surrouding species. A transect was used to measure a 3 foot x 3 foot sampling area which was placed on random coordinates from a specified corner of the woodlot using a random number generator on Excel. The total number of buckthorn and other species within the sampling area were recorded separately. The soil temperature was measured with a thermometer and the outside temperature was also taken on each day. The approximate sunlight coverage for each quadrat was recorded as percentage, and the number of people excountered was also counted to see if there is any effect of human distubance on buckthorn abundance. A total of 27 replicates were recorded.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593839.v2
title: Lab 4: The effect of different coloured pan traps placed in a disturbed vs. undisturbed grassland have on the abundance of insects

description: The data was collected over a period of two weeks on two days. Day 1 was Oct.15, 2015 cloudy with showers 16°C wind 50km/h NE and gusts up to 61km/h making the temperature feel like 10°C. Day 2 was Oct. 22, 2015 sunny16°C with wind 30km/h and gusts up to 41km/h W making the temperature on day 2 feel like 13°C. In order keep the experiment consistent both days were conducted at the same time 3:00pm to 4:15 pm and left for a duration of 1 hour and 15 minutes in the two sites disturbed (mowed) and undisturbed (unmowed), in the Danby grassland on York University's Keele campus. The disturbed site was about 1 month old and contained the following plants that were shorter than what was found in the undisturbed site: grass, milkweed, golden rod, purple aster, white aster, and dominated by common thistle, as well as a few scattered trees. The undisturbed site was also found to be much denser. The data was collected by Vivian D, Amandeep B, Alexander K, and Myself (Stephanie A). The experiment was set up by placing a 12m long transect randomly in both sites, disturbed and undisturbed. Laying down the yellow, white, and blue pan traps in a systematic alternating pattern 1m apart from each other for a total of 12 pan traps (4 of each colour) per site. Once the pans were placed they were filled with soapy water and left for the duration stated above of 1 hour and 15 minutes. After said duration the abundance; total number of individual insects found within each pan trap was recorded using the aid of tweezers to visually count the number of insects. The total sample size was n=48. The purpose of this experiment was to see whether or not different colour pan traps (yellow, white and blue) had an affect on the abundance of insects found in two different sites disturbed (mowed) and undisturbed (unmowed).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1594077.v4
title: Correlation between the abundance of invasive species European Buckthorn and surrounding species’ richness

description: This study of correlation between the abundance of invasive species European Buckthorn and surrounding species’ richness was conducted in Boyer Woodlot, Saywell Woodlot and Osgoode Woodlot of York University by myself and two other group member: Laura and Kalvin on Oct 1, 8 and 15. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a connection between the invasive European Buckthorn and the richness of other surrouding species. A transect was used to measure a 3 foot x 3 foot sampling area which was placed on random coordinates from a specified corner of the woodlot using a random number generator on Excel. The total number of buckthorn and other species within the sampling area were recorded separately. The soil temperature was measured with a thermometer and the outside temperature was also taken on each day. The approximate sunlight coverage for each quadrat was recorded as percentage, and the number of people encountered was also counted to see if there is any effect of human distubance on buckthorn abundance. A total of 27 replicates were recorded.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593427.v2
title: Preferred food difference by the gender: observation

description: This data set was collected based on observation only, to test the hypothesis that food preference vary between the gender. Observations were done in every Thursday of each week through September 24 to October 15, 2015, and pilot sampling was performed on the week of September 24. Each members of the group were assigned either fast food restaurant selling processed food, or health food restaurant selling natural foods. Both fast food and health food restaurants were picked within the vicinity of York lanes and Student centre in York University Keele campus. The group chose Wendy’s, Popeyes, and Hero Burger as fast food restaurants, and chose Bistro, La Prep, Barries and Bloom as health food restaurants based on their menu and visual observations. From 2:45pm to 3:45pm, each members of the group were assigned randomly to a restaurant listed, and recorded the numbers of males and females buying food without any direct or indirect contact with the visitors of the restaurants. Between 3:50 to 4:50, members were grouped in pairs and randomly assigned two restaurants, also recording the numbers of males and females. The defining of gender of the visitors were based on visual analyses such as face, hair, body shape, and clothing. Each members were assigned to the restaurants which they were not assigned before to minimize observer bias for the remaining sampling period. After the observation the group got together and recorded the data collected for each weeks.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593839.v1
title: The effect of different coloured pan traps placed in a disturbed vs. undisturbed grassland have on the abundance of insects

description: The data was collected over a period of two weeks on two days. Day 1 was Oct.15, 2015 cloudy with showers 16°C wind 50km/h NE and gusts up to 61km/h making the temperature feel like 10°C. Day 2 was Oct. 22, 2015 sunny16°C with wind 30km/h and gusts up to 41km/h W making the temperature on day 2 feel like 13°C. In order keep the experiment consistent both days were conducted at the same time 3:00pm to 4:15 pm and left for a duration of 1 hour and 15 minutes in the two sites disturbed (mowed) and undisturbed (unmowed), in the Danby grassland on York University's Keele campus. The disturbed site was about 1 month old and contained the following plants that were shorter than what was found in the undisturbed site: grass, milkweed, golden rod, purple aster, white aster, and dominated by common thistle, as well as a few scattered trees. The undisturbed site was also found to be much denser. The data was collected by Vivian D, Amandeep B, Alexander K, and Myself (Stephanie A). The experiment was set up by placing a 12m long transect randomly in both sites, disturbed and undisturbed. Laying down the yellow, white, and blue pan traps in a systematic alternating pattern 1m apart from each other for a total of 12 pan traps (4 of each colour) per site. Once the pans were placed they were filled with soapy water and left for the duration stated above of 1 hour and 15 minutes. After said duration the abundance; total number of individual insects found within each pan trap was recorded using the aid of tweezers to visually count the number of insects. The total sample size was n=48. The purpose of this experiment was to see whether or not different colour pan traps (yellow, white and blue) had an affect on the abundance of insects found in two different sites disturbed (mowed) and undisturbed (unmowed).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1594077.v3
title: Correlation between invasive species European Buckthorn and surrounding species’ abundance

description: This study of correlation between invasive species European Buckthorn and surrounding species’ abundance was conducted in Boyer Woodlot, Saywell Woodlot and Osgoode Woodlot of York University by myself and two other group member: Laura and Kalvin on Oct 1, 8 and 15. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a connection between the invasive European Buckthorn and the richness of other surrouding species. A transect was used to measure a 3 foot x 3 foot sampling area which was placed on random coordinates from a specified corner of the woodlot using a random number generator on Excel. The total number of buckthorn and other species within the sampling area were recorded separately. The soil temperature was measured with a thermometer and the outside temperature was also taken on each day. The approximate sunlight coverage for each quadrat was recorded as percentage, and the number of people excountered was also counted to see if there is any effect of human distubance on buckthorn abundance. A total of 27 replicates were recorded.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593422
title: Ecology Lab 4

description: The Purpose of this experiment was to determine if living in different ecosystems along with the edge effect had an impact on plant abundance. Group members are Albert, Gajumagan, Gopaul, Hannan. The grassland was chosen as the area with tall, non-mowed grass. Woodlot was classified as area where the trees were growing in high abundance. The data was collected between two dates; Thursday, October 15th, and on Thursday, October 22nd, 2015. One th first date the weather was 17 degrees celcius, with slight rain. On the second date it was 16 degrees celcius and sunny. Each sampling period was roughly 80 minutes. The total sample size is 160; 20 per person in each ecosystem. Samples were recorded using a 1mX1m transect every 5m from each corner towards the center. Gajumagan took North-West corners or the woodlot and grassland, Gopaul North-East, Albert South-West and Hannan South-East.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593852.v2
title: Field experiment: Does insect abundance differ in mowed vs. un-mowed grassland and does pan colour influence abundance?

description: The data was collected on Thursday October 15, 2015 at 3:00-4:20 p.m and on October 22 at 3:07-4:27 p.m. The location of the study was at Danby grasslands at York University. The mowed and un-mowed areas of the grassland were tested for abundance of insects using pans of various colors, transects, strainer, tweezers, and soapy water. The sample size for mowed and un-mowed grassland was 24 pans. Data was collected by Stephanie, Alexander, Vivian, and Amandeep. A transect was randomly placed in the mowed and un-mowed area of the grassland. Three different coloured pans (yellow, white, blue) were placed along the transect 1 m apart in that order. The total length of the transect tape was 11 m for all four trials. There were two transects used for day 1 and two for day 2, with one at each site. Soapy water was added to each pan to capture insects. After duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes the number of insects in each pan was counted using a strainer and tweezers. The weather on day 1 and 2 was 16 degrees Celsius. It was cloudy with wind speed of 56 km/h on day 1 and was sunny with wind speed of 30 km/h on day 2. It was raining on day 1 when we ended the study because we did not want rain water to flood the pans while losing the insects captured. This study lasted only 1 hour and 20 minutes as a result. The same duration was used for the rest of the trials to maintain consistency. There were a few scattered trees in the un-mowed grassland, and almost none in mowed. There were lots of leaves on the ground. Common plants in the grassland were milkweed, golden rod, purple aster, white aster, common thistle. The mowed and un-mowed had the same plants but differed in height and density. The purpose of collecting this data set was to test whether there is a difference in abundance between mowed and un-mowed grassland, and if a certain coloured pan attracted more insects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593326
title: Polistes dominula transcript alignment

description: This data set is part of the <em>Polistes dominula</em> genome project, and provides details regarding the alignment of assembled transcripts to the <em>P. dominula</em> genome, as described in (Standage <em>et al.</em>, <i>Molecular Ecology</i>, 2016). Included in this data set are the alignments themselves (in GeneSeqer format), alignment structures suitable for genome annotation workflows (in GFF3 format), and documentation providing complete disclosure of the alignment procedure.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593349
title: The Effect of Coloured Pan Traps and Floral Presence on Insect Abundance in Danby Grassland

description: The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether the location (presence of flowers vs. no flowers) and colour of pan traps affect insect abundance in a grassland environment. The grassland was a large open area covered with grasses. On October 15th 2015, twelve pan traps were set out in a location where there was an abundance of 20 or more flowers and twelve pan traps were placed in an area where there was no abundance of flowers, resulting in a total of twenty-four pan traps altogether. Pan traps measured the abundance of insects in the grassland. Coloured pan traps were used to attract an abundance of insects and to observe their reactions to the different colours. The colour pattern used was white, blue and yellow and there were 8 pans per colour. Samples were collected systematically. One line transect was placed 4m along an area where there were 20 or more flowers to indicate a floral site. A second line transect was placed 4m along an area where there were no flowers to indicate a site with no floral presence. At each metre along each transect, three pan traps were placed perpendicular to the line transect in the consistent order of white, blue and yellow resulting in a total of 24 pan traps – 12 per site. Thus, the white pan trap was the closest to the transect whereas the yellow pan trap was placed the farthest. Soapy water was added halfway to each of the pan traps in order to trap the insects and submerge them into our pans for the duration of our experiment. After approximately two hours, data was collected and abundance of insects in each pan trap was recorded. Abundance measured the total number of insects observed in each pan trap. The experiment was repeated once more after exactly one week on October 22nd 2015. The setting of the experiment took place in the Danby grassland area on the northeast side of York University Keele Campus for the duration of approximately three hours on October 15th, 2015 (2:45-4:30pm) and October 22nd, 2015 (2:45-5:00pm). On October 15th, it was 17 degrees Celsius with 39% humidity and SW winds at 23 km/h indicating a fresh breeze on the Beaufort scale. The pressure was 1009mb and visibility was 16.1km. On October 22nd, it was 14 degrees Celsius with 59% humidity and NW winds at 29km/h indicating a strong breeze on the Beaufort scale. The pressure was 1019mb and visibility was 16.1km. Each of the 4 members – Simranjit Kang, Ava Kamali, Katrin Chapkis, Jennifer Mariathas – of group 4 contributed to collecting the data. We used coloured pan traps, soapy water and transects to analyze and record the dataset. Sample size is 48.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593852.v3
title: Field experiment: Does insect abundance differ in mowed vs. un-mowed grassland and does pan colour influence abundance?

description: The data was collected on Thursday October 15, 2015 at 3:00-4:20 p.m and on October 22 at 3:07-4:27 p.m. The location of the study was at Danby grasslands at York University. The mowed and un-mowed areas of the grassland were tested for abundance of insects using pans of various colors, transects, tweezers, and soapy water. The sample size for mowed and un-mowed grassland was 24 pans. Data was collected by Stephanie, Alexander, Vivian, and Amandeep. A transect was randomly placed in the mowed and un-mowed area of the grassland. Three different coloured pans (yellow, white, blue) were placed along the transect 1 m apart in that order. The total length of the transect tape was 11 m for all four trials. There were two transects used for day 1 and two for day 2, with one at each site. Soapy water was added to each pan to capture insects. After duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes the number of insects in each pan was counted using tweezers by pointing at the insects. The weather on day 1 and 2 was 16 degrees Celsius. It was cloudy with wind speed of 56 km/h on day 1 and was sunny with wind speed of 30 km/h on day 2. It was raining on day 1 when we ended the study because we did not want rain water to flood the pans while losing the insects captured. This study lasted only 1 hour and 20 minutes as a result. The same duration was used for the rest of the trials to maintain consistency. There were a few scattered trees in the un-mowed grassland, and almost none in mowed. There were lots of leaves on the ground. Common plants in the grassland were milkweed, golden rod, purple aster, white aster, common thistle. The mowed and un-mowed had the same plants but differed in height and density. The purpose of collecting this data set was to test whether there is a difference in abundance between mowed and un-mowed grassland, and if a certain coloured pan attracted more insects.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593271
title: From RAGs to Riches: Utilizing Richly Attributed Graphs to Reason from Heterogeneous Data: Part 1

description: Utilizing Richly Attributed Graphs to Reason from Heterogeneous Data - Part 1
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.1593326.v1
title: Polistes dominula transcript alignment

description: This data set is part of the <em>Polistes dominula</em> genome project, and provides details regarding the alignment of assembled transcripts to the <em>P. dominula</em> genome, as described in (Standage <em>et al.</em>, <i>Molecular Ecology</i>, 2016). Included in this data set are the alignments themselves (in GeneSeqer format), alignment structures suitable for genome annotation workflows (in GFF3 format), and documentation providing complete disclosure of the alignment procedure.