cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4xgxd2559
title: Multi-dimensional biodiversity hotspots and the future of taxonomic, ecological, and phylogenetic diversity: a case study of North American rodents

description: Aim: We investigate geographic patterns across taxonomic, ecological, and
 phylogenetic diversity to test for spatial (in)congruency and identify
 aggregate diversity hotspots in relation to present land-use and future
 climate. Simulating extinctions of imperiled species, we demonstrate where
 losses across diversity dimensions and geography are predicted. Location:
 North America Time period: Present-day, future Major taxa studied:
 Rodentia Methods: Using geographic range maps for rodent species, we
 quantified spatial patterns for eleven dimensions of diversity: taxonomic
 (species, range-weighted), ecological (body size, diet, habitat),
 phylogenetic (mean, variance, and nearest-neighbor patristic distances,
 phylogenetic distance, genus-to-species ratio) and phyloendemism. We
 tested for correlations across dimensions and used spatial residual
 analyses to illustrate regions of pronounced diversity. We aggregated
 diversity hotspots in relation to land-use and climate-change predictions
 and recalculated metrics following extinctions of IUCN-listed imperiled
 species. Results: Topographically-complex western North America hosts high
 diversity across multiple dimensions: phyloendemism and ecological
 diversity exceed predictions based on taxonomic richness and phylogenetic
 variance patterns indicate steep gradients in phylogenetic turnover. While
 an aggregate diversity hotspot emerges in the west, spatial incongruence
 exists across diversity dimensions at the continental scale. Notably,
 phylogenetic metrics are uncorrelated with ecological diversity. Diversity
 hotspots overlap with land-use and climate change, and extinctions
 predicted by IUCN status are unevenly distributed across space, phylogeny,
 or ecological groups. Main conclusions: Comparison of taxonomic,
 ecological, and phylogenetic diversity patterns for North American rodents
 clearly shows the multifaceted nature of biodiversity. Testing for
 geographic patterns and (in)congruency across dimensions of diversity
 facilitates investigation into underlying ecological and evolutionary
 processes. The geographic scope of this analysis suggests that several
 explicit regional challenges face North American rodent fauna in the
 future. Simultaneous consideration of multidimensional biodiversity allows
 us to assess what critical functions or evolutionary history we might lose
 with future extinctions and maximize the potential of our conservation
 efforts.
description: Excel file includes sheets containing:
 SUPPORTING TABLE S1.1 Species ecological information and
 references SUPPORTING TABLE S1.2 Ecological
 categories. SUPPORTING INFORMATION References
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5tb2rbp0z
title: Cuttlefish show flexible and future-dependent foraging cognition

description: Some animals optimise their foraging activity by learning and memorising
 food availability, in terms of quantity and quality, and adapt their
 feeding behaviour accordingly. Here we investigated whether cuttlefish
 flexibly adapt their foraging behaviour according to the availability of
 their preferred prey. In Experiment 1, cuttlefish switched from a
 selective to an opportunistic foraging strategy (or vice versa) when the
 availability of their preferred prey at night was predictable versus
 unpredictable. In Experiment 2, cuttlefish exhibited day-to-day foraging
 flexibility, in response to what will happen in the proximate future (i.e.
 preferred prey available on alternate nights). In Experiment 1, the number
 of crabs eaten during the day decreased when shrimp (i.e. preferred food)
 were predictably available at night, while the consumption of crabs during
 the day was maintained when shrimp availability was unpredictable.
 Cuttlefish quickly shifted from one strategy to the other, when
 experimental conditions were reversed. In Experiment 2, cuttlefish only
 reduced their consumption of crabs during the daytime when shrimps were
 predictably available the following night. Their daytime foraging
 behaviour appeared dependent on shrimps’ future availability. Overall,
 cuttlefish can adopt dynamic and flexible foraging behaviours including
 selective, opportunistic and future-dependent strategies, in response to
 changing foraging conditions.
DOI: 10.26207/2sb9-wn22
title: Exploring journal use in graduate research in the sociology of religion: Informing collections, instruction, and reference (ATLA dataset)

description: The dataset contains 8,126 journal citations taken from 64 dissertations in Sociology from BTAA institutions from 2016-2020. Included are three datasets [tabs in Excel] with journal rankings used to demonstrate three approaches for exploring journal use presented at the American Theological Library Association Conference 2023.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j6q573n8s
title: Morphometric variation at different spatial scales: coordination and compensation in the emergence of organismal form

description: It is a classic aim of quantitative and evolutionary biology to infer
 genetic architecture and potential evolutionary responses to selection
 from the variance-covariance structure of measured traits. But a
 meaningful genetic or developmental interpretation of raw covariances is
 difficult, and classic concepts of morphological integration do not
 directly apply to modern morphometric data. Here we present a new
 morphometric strategy based on the comparison of morphological variation
 across different spatial scales. If anatomical elements vary completely
 independently, then their variance accumulates at larger scales or for
 structures composed of multiple elements: morphological variance would be
 a power function of spatial scale. Deviations from this pattern of
 `variational self-similarity'' (serving as a null-model of
 completely uncoordinated growth) indicate genetic or developmental
 co-regulation of anatomical components. We present biometric strategies
 and R scripts for identifying patterns of coordination and compensation in
 the size and shape of composite anatomical structures. In an application
 to human cranial variation, we found that coordinated variation and
 positive correlations are prevalent for the size of cranial components,
 whereas their shape was dominated by compensatory variation, leading to
 strong canalization of cranial shape at larger scales. We propose that
 mechanically induced bone formation and remodeling are key mechanisms
 underlying compensatory variation in cranial shape. Such epigenetic
 coordination and compensation of growth are indispensable for stable,
 canalized development and may also foster the evolvability of complex
 anatomical structures by preserving spatial und functional integrity
 during genetic responses to selection.
description: Online Appendix of the main mansucript, containing all the
 formulas and computational details as well as a description of the R
 package. Midsagittal landmarks digitized on
 high-resolution CT scans of a geographically diverse sample of 24 adult
 human crania (16 females, 8 males). The landmark set comprises 30
 anatomical landmarks and 57 semilandmarks. We provide
 an R file including functions to compute bending energies, principal
 warps, partial warp scores, and the non-affine component of shape
 variation for 2D landmark configurations as well as functions to compute
 Mardia-Dryden distributions and self-similar distributions of landmarks.
 We also provide a worked example using the landmark data.
description: Semilandmarks are the landmarks #: 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 6, 8, 10,
 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 37, 43, 44,
 45, 48, 54, 55, 63, 65, 64, 66, 69, 70, 60, 73, 74, 75, 77, 79, 81, 83,
 85, 87, 89, 80, 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 91, 93, 92
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2547d7wmx
title: Data from: Social effects on age-related and sex-specific immune cell profiles in a wild mammal

description: Evidence for age-related changes in innate and adaptive immune responses
 is increasing in wild populations. Such changes have been linked to
 fitness, and knowledge of the factors driving immune response variation is
 important for understanding the evolution of immunity. Age-related changes
 in immune profiles may be due to factors such as immune system
 development, sex-specific behaviour and responses to environmental
 conditions. Social environments may also contribute to variation in
 immunological responses, for example, through transmission of pathogens
 and stress arising from resource and mate competition. Yet, the impact of
 the social environment on age-related changes in immune cell profiles is
 currently understudied in the wild. Here, we tested the relationship
 between leukocyte cell composition (proportion of neutrophils and
 lymphocytes [innate and adaptive immunity, respectively] that were
 lymphocytes) and age, sex, and group size in a wild population of European
 badgers (Meles meles). We found that the proportion of lymphocytes in
 early-life was greater in males in smaller groups compared to larger
 groups, but with a faster age-related decline in smaller groups. In
 contrast, the proportion of lymphocytes in females was not significantly
 related to age or group size. Our results provide evidence of sex-specific
 age-related changes in immune cell profiles in a wild mammal, which are
 influenced by the social environment.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tb2rbnzwq
title: Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment

description: Human cooperation is likely supported by our tendency to punish
 selfishness in others. Social norms play an important role in motivating
 third-party punishment, and also in explaining societal differences in
 prosocial behavior. However, there has been little work directly linking
 social norms to the development of third-party punishment across
 societies. In this study, we explored the impact of normative information
 on the development of third-party punishment in 603 children aged 4-14
 years, across six diverse societies. Children began to perform third-party
 punishment during middle childhood, and the developmental trajectories of
 this behavior were similar across societies. We also found that social
 norms began to influence the likelihood of performing third-party
 punishment during middle childhood in some of these societies. Norms
 specifying the punishment of selfishness were generally more influential
 than norms specifying the punishment of prosocial behavior. These findings
 support the view that third-party punishment of selfishness is important
 in all societies, and its development is shaped by a shared psychology for
 responding to normative information. Yet, the results also highlight the
 important role that children’s prior knowledge of local norms may play in
 explaining societal variation in the development of both third-party
 punishment and prosociality.
description: Data and code supporting analyses presented in the manuscript:
 "Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of
 third-party punishment" Priming videos used as
 stimuli in the experiment presented in the manuscript: "Social norms
 and cultural diversity in the development of third-party
 punishment
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3ffbg79dj
title: Mesophication in temperate Europe: a dendrochronological reconstruction of tree succession and fires in a mixed deciduous stand in Białowieża Forest / supporting data

description: The attached data was gathered to investigate the successional changes in
 Bialowieza Forest mixed-deciduous stands by reconstructing the long-term
 tree population dynamics (tree-ring data). Traces of fires were documented
 from a 43ha area to explore whether fire was involved in shaping the
 succession of this habitat.
description: The study was
 conducted in a 43-ha mixed deciduous forest stand with admixture of
 conifer trees and with well-preserved old growth structures.
 Data describing the long-term successional patterns were gathered
 from three circular 5000 m<sup>2</sup> sample plots (radius of
 39.90 m).  All trees with DBH (diameter at breast height, 130 cm above the
 ground) higher than 5 cm were inventoried. Up to a radius of 12.62 m (500
 m<sup>2</sup>), all present tree species were cored with an
 increment borer as close to the mineral soil as possible (20–80 cm),
 whereas outside the inner 500 m<sup>2</sup>, only oak, pine,
 oak and spruce individuals were
 cored. In total, we cored 275 trees at the ground level (one
 core per tree). To investigate the early growth of oak, pine, oak and
 spruce on rich soils of BF and to determine the real ages, 42 trees were
 randomly selected from the trees cored at the ground level and they were
 cored additionally at DBH as well. For the inventory of tree regeneration
 of other species on a macro-scale, a transect of 25 m length and 2 m width
 was randomly established in the stand (orientated E-W). All tree
 regeneration up to 5 cm stem diameter was recorded by species and height.
 The individuals (48) were collected for age estimation. The increment cores were dried,
 glued on wooden mounts and sanded (down to 600 grit) for an easy reading
 of tree-ring sequences. Under 6–40x magnification, the cores were visually
 cross-dated by identifying local pointer years following the standard
 dendrochronological methodology of cross-dating directly on the wood. All
 developed fire scars found in increment cores and cross-sections were
 noted (Niklasson & Granström, 2000). Additionally, the
 disturbances in tree-ring morphology (Niklasson & Granström, 2000)
 or in the growth pattern were noted and used as a fire record if a certain
 year was confirmed by a fire scar formed in at least one other sample
 tree The samples
 of seedlings were crosscut at root collar and the surface was sanded and
 smoothed with a scalpel cut to obtain the clearest possible view of the
 annual rings.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nvx0k6dnh
title: Dispersal and migration have contrasting effects on butterfly flight morphology and reproduction

description: Movement may fundamentally alter morphology and reproductive states in
 insects. In long-distance migrants, reproductive diapause is associated
 with trade-offs between diverse life history traits such as flight
 morphology and lifespan. However, many non-diapausing insects engage in
 shorter resource-driven dispersals. How diapause and other reproductive
 states alter flight morphology in migrating versus dispersing insects is
 poorly understood. To find out, we compared flight morphology in different
 reproductive states of multiple butterfly species. We found that
 dispersers consisted of ovulating females with higher egg-loads compared
 to non-dispersing females. This trend was in stark contrast to that of
 migrating female butterflies in reproductive diapause that made
 substantially higher investment in flight tissue compared to
 reproductively active, non-migrating females. Thus, long-distance
 migration and shorter resource-driven dispersals had contrasting effects
 on flight morphology and egg-loads. In contrast, male flight morphology
 was not affected by dispersal, migration, or associated reproductive
 states. Thus, dispersal and migration affected resource allocation in
 flight and reproductive tissue in a sex-specific manner across relatively
 mobile versus non-dispersing individuals of different species. These
 findings suggest that dispersals between fragmented habitats may put extra
 stress on egg-carrying females by increasing their flight burdens.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.gj26c3
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 550 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is Hippocampus abdominalis",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "DecimalLatitude is greater than -90",
 "DecimalLatitude is less than 90",
 "DecimalLongitude is greater than -180",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "Year is greater than or equal to 1950",
 "Year is less than or equal to 2014"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 550 records from 33 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0002084-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.stqjq2c05
title: Survival benefits of group living in a fluctuating environment

description: Group living is only predicted to arise when the fitness benefits outweigh
 the costs of sociality. Group-living species—including cooperatively
 breeding and family-living birds and mammals—occur most frequently in
 environments where climatic conditions fluctuate unpredictably from
 year-to-year. The fitness consequences of group living are thus expected
 to vary with changing environmental conditions, though few studies have
 examined this possibility. We examined whether living in
 large social groups improves adult survivorship
 in cooperatively breeding superb starlings (Lamprotornis superbus). We
 also tested the hypothesis that larger groups buffer against
 harsh conditions by increasing survivorship most under periods of low
 rainfall. We found that group size was positively correlated with adult
 survival, but in a sex-specific manner: female survival increased with
 group size across all environmental conditions, whereas male survival only
 increased with group size in wet years. Together with previous work in
 this system, our results suggest that larger groups confer survival
 benefits by reducing predation, rather than improving access to food or
 buffering against physiological stress. Although group living does not
 appear to buffer against harsh conditions in adult starlings living in a
 fluctuating environment, living in larger groups does confer a survival
 advantage.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3n5tb2rcq
title: Effects of temperature treatments on cytosine-methylation profiles of diploid and tetraploid plants of the alpine species Ranunculus kuepferi (Ranunculaceae)

description: The current dataset refers to the DNA methylation patterns of diploid and
 tetraploid individuals of Ranunculus kuepferi, obtained with the method of
 methylation-sensitive AFLPs (MS-AFLPs). The individuals of Ranunculus
 kuepferi were collected from several locations throughout the distribution
 of the species in the Alps, transferred to the old Botanical Garden of
 Göttingen and placed into two climate chambers MC1000E (Snijders
 Scientific, Tilburg, Netherlands), where the temperature treatment
 experiments took place. In the first chamber a cold treatment was applied
 (+7°C day/+2°C night; frost treatment: -1°C cold shocks for three nights
 per week), while in the second chamber a warm treatment was applied (+15°
 day/+10°C night). The plants were shifted from one treatment to the other
 one after the end of the 2016 flowering period and leaf material was
 collected during the flowering period of 2016 and 2017. This material went
 through the respective lab procedures in order to obtain the genome-wide
 patterns of epigenetic variation via MS-AFLPs. The analysis of the
 electropherograms was conducted with Peakscanner v.2 and fragment scoring
 was performed with RawGeno 2.0-1 R package. These fragment scoring binary
 matrices are presented here.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17066183
title: Single nucleus multiome analysis in the human pre-frontal cortex identifies cell-type restricted gene expression and cis-regulatory elements associated with aging
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18394349
title: Single nucleus multiome analysis in the human pre-frontal cortex identifies cell-type restricted gene expression and cis-regulatory elements associated with aging
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ghx3ffbjs
title: Profile and regulatory network analysis of miRNAs and mRNAs in stearic acid-treated β-cells relative to palmitic acid.

description: Chronic exposure of pancreatic β-cells to saturated fatty acid (palmitic
 acid or stearic acid) is a leading cause of impaired insulin secretion.
 However, the molecular mechanisms underlying stearic acid-induced β-cell
 dysfunction remain poorly understood. Emerging evidence indicates that
 microRNAs (miRNAs) are involved in various biological functions. The aim
 of this study was to explore the differential expression of miRNAs and
 mRNAs, specifically in stearic acid-treated relative to palmitic
 acid-treated β-cells, and to establish their co-expression networks.
 β-TC-6 cells were treated with stearic acid, palmitic acid or normal
 medium for 24 hours. Differentially expressed miRNAs and mRNAs were
 identified by high-throughput sequencing and bioinformatic analysis.
 Co-expression network, gene ontology (GO) and pathway analyses were then
 conducted. Real-time PCR was used to verify changes in the expression of
 selected miRNAs and mRNAs in β-TC-6 cells and mouse islets. Sequencing
 analysis detected 656 known and 1729 novel miRNAs. miRNA-mRNA network and
 Venn diagram analysis yielded two differentially expressed miRNAs and 63
 mRNAs. The two miRNAs were confirmed to be differentially expressed
 specifically in stearic acid-treated cells, in which miR-374c-5p was
 up-regulated by a 1.801 log2(fold-change) and miR-297b-5p was
 down-regulated by a -4.669 log2(fold-change). Among the 63 differentially
 expressed mRNAs, 39 were up-regulated and 24 were down-regulated. This
 study indicates that expression changes of specific miRNAs and mRNAs may
 contribute to stearic acid-induced β-cell dysfunction, which provides a
 preliminary basis for further functional and molecular mechanism studies
 of stearic acid-induced β-cell dysfunction in the development of type 2
 diabetes.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8kprr4xjf
title: Insecticidal activity of Lantana camara extract oil on controlling maize grain weevils

description: Currently farmers are faced by serious post-harvest problems from weevils
 especially in storage of grains. When grains exposed to insects they
 become less marketable and loss quality of grain. In this study the
 insecticidal property of methanol, ethanol and ethyl acetate extracted oil
 from Lantana Camara leaf for controlling of maize weevils, Sitophilus
 Zeamais were studied. Gas Chromatography-Mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and
 Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) was used to identify the
 chemical composition and Functional group of solvent extracted oil
 respectively. Adult weevil’s repellency and mortality were studied by the
 effect of extract oil concentration at 0% (w/w), 2% (w/w), 3% (w/w), 5%
 (w/w), 7% (w/w), and 10% (w/w) to weight of grain maize and exposed days.
 Repellency effect was also conducted at 6, 12 and 24 h at different
 concentration oil. The number of weevil’s death increases significantly as
 exposed time increases. The extracted oil by the three-solvent fraction
 had direct repellent and toxic effect to the weevil. From all treatment
 applied, extracted by methanol fraction had showed highest percentage
 mortality (74%). The lowest mortality rate was observed in ethyl acetate
 fraction oil (26%), at 2% (w/w) concentration. The effect of lantana
 Camara leaf powder and extracted oil on repellency and mortality was
 showed directly proportional to concentration dosage.