cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.65k7g
title: Data from: Inter-annual variability and long-term trends in breeding success in a declining population of migratory swans

description: Population declines among migratory Arctic-breeding birds are a growing
 concern for conservationists. To inform the conservation of these
 declining populations, we need to understand how demographic rates such as
 breeding success are influenced by combinations of extrinsic and intrinsic
 factors. In this study we examined inter-annual variation and long-term
 trends in two aspects of the breeding success of a migratory herbivore,
 the Bewick's swan Cygnus columbianus bewickii, which is currently
 undergoing a population decline: 1) the percentage of young within the
 wintering population and 2) mean brood size. We used an
 information-theoretic approach to test how these two measures of
 productivity were influenced over a 26 yr period by 12 potential
 explanatory variables, encompassing both environmental (e.g. temperature)
 and intrinsic (e.g. pair-bond duration) factors. Swan productivity
 exhibited sensitivity to both types of explanatory variable. Fewer young
 were observed on the wintering grounds in years in which the breeding
 period (May to September) was colder and predator (Arctic fox) abundance
 was higher. The percentage of young within the wintering population also
 showed negative density-dependence. Inter-annual variance in mean swan
 brood size was best explained by a model comprised of the negative degree
 days during the swan breeding period, mean pair-bond duration of all
 paired swans (i.e. mean pair duration), and an interaction between these
 two variables. In particular, mean pair duration had a strong positive
 effect on mean brood size. However, we found no long-term directional
 trend in either measure of breeding success, despite the recent decline in
 the NW European population. Our results highlight that inter-annual
 variability in breeding success is sensitive to the combined effects of
 both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
description: Wood et al 2016 Bewick
 Swan breeding success paper dataA Microsoft Excel
 spreadsheet containing the raw and standardized values for all variables
 used in the analysis of Bewick's Swan breeding success. The data
 cover the period 1988-2013. A legend describing the identity of each
 variable is also included. Further information on the data analysis is
 available in the published paper.Wood et al 2016 Data for
 Dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s3720
title: Data from: Group-size dependent punishment of idle subordinates in a cooperative breeder where helpers pay to stay

description: In cooperative breeding systems, dominant breeders sometimes tolerate
 unrelated individuals even if they inflict costs on the dominants.
 According to the ‘pay-to-stay’ hypothesis, (i) subordinates can outweigh
 these costs by providing help and (ii) dominants should be able to enforce
 help by punishing subordinates that provide insufficient help. This
 requires that dominants can monitor helping and can recognize group
 members individually. In a field experiment, we tested whether
 cooperatively breeding cichlid Neolamprologus pulcher subordinates
 increase their help after a forced ‘idle’ period, how other group members
 respond to a previously idle helper, and how helper behaviour and group
 responses depend on group size. Previously, idle helpers increased their
 submissiveness and received more aggression than control helpers,
 suggesting that punishment occurred to enforce help. Subordinates in small
 groups increased their help more than those in large groups, despite
 receiving less aggression. When subordinates were temporarily removed,
 dominants in small groups were more likely to evict returning
 subordinates. Our results suggest that only in small groups do helpers
 face a latent threat of punishment by breeders as predicted by the
 pay-to-stay hypothesis. In large groups, cognitive constraints may prevent
 breeders from tracking the behaviour of a large number of helpers.
description: Raw_data_ProcB
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kv686
title: Data from: Wood warblers copy settlement decisions of poor quality conspecifics: support for the tradeoff between the benefit of social information use and competition avoidance

description: Social information use in songbird habitat selection commonly involves a
 conspecific attraction strategy. Individuals copy the breeding-site
 choices of conspecifics, that is, bias their own settlement decisions
 towards sites (tracts of spatially limited habitat with similar structure)
 already occupied by others. In order to be adaptive, social information
 use has to be discriminative. Especially the decisions of good quality
 individuals, i.e. measuring high at observable fitness correlates, should
 be copied more frequently than those of poor quality individuals. It is
 unknown, however, whether songbirds discriminatively use conspecific
 presence by evaluating the quality of information providers in habitat
 selection. We experimentally tested whether wood warblers Phylloscopus
 sibilatrix selectively copied settlement decisions of conspecifics in
 relation to the quality of observed individuals. We also tested whether
 the use of social cues was influenced by the population density at a
 particular site in the preceding year. We found that wood warblers
 selectively used intraspecific social information, but in a pattern
 opposite to that expected based on existing hypotheses. Wood warblers
 copied breeding-site choices of poor quality conspecifics and despite
 temporary attraction to sites where the presence of good quality
 individuals was simulated, they did not ultimately settle near these
 individuals. Population density in the preceding year did not influence
 settlement patterns. We argue that when making settlement decisions, wood
 warblers assessed the expected level of local intraspecific competition
 and selectively copied breeding-site choices of conspecifics or refused to
 settle, depending on competitive abilities of observed individuals. This
 adds a novel aspect to the patterns and processes of social information
 use proposed thus far, and provides support for the predicted negative
 effect of intraspecific competition on benefit of information. Moreover,
 it seems that habitat selection in wood warblers is a complex
 decision-making process, in which initial decisions are adjusted after
 acquiring more accurate information.
description: Szymkowiak et al.
 dataIncludes data worksheet
 that detail: 1. the abundance of wood warblers on experimental plots in
 pre-treatment and treatment years, 2. the temporal dynamics of floater
 abundance, 3. the song characteristics data used in acoustic
 analysis.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m073h5q
title: Data from: Birds with high lifetime reproductive success experience increased telomere loss

description: Lifetime reproductive success (LRS) is what counts in terms of evolution,
 but investments in reproduction entail costs for an organism. The idea
 that telomere dynamics may be shaped in response to such costs is already
 established, however we still lack information if this relation translates
 to overall fitness. Here, we quantified lifetime reproductive success
 (number of fledged young) and longitudinal telomere dynamics of small
 passerine birds - the blue tits. We found that individual telomere erosion
 rate was positively associated with lifetime fledgling number. Birds with
 more fledged young experienced increased telomere attrition. We show that
 telomere attrition rate, but not telomere length, is related to individual
 fitness and suggest that telomere dynamics may underlie reproductive costs
 experienced by animals as a consequence of prioritizing their lifetime
 fitness. This is the first study to provide evidence that more pronounced
 telomere erosion is associated with higher fitness gain.
description: SudykaBL2018
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3s26k
title: Data from: Resource availability, but not polyandry, influences sibling conflict in a burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides

description: Conflict over resources is a fundamental component of family life. Family
 conflicts are predicted to be strongly influenced by resource availability
 and levels of relatedness between family members. Here, we examined the
 effects of these factors on intra-brood sibling conflict in a family
 living beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, where offspring are partially
 dependent on parental provisioning. Specifically, we measured the
 intensity of offspring begging behavior in response to experimental
 manipulation of 1) relatedness between siblings (through mating females
 monogamously or polyandrously) and 2) resource availability (through
 varying the amount of resources at the onset of breeding). We found no
 effect of polyandry on sibling conflict or patterns of female reproductive
 investment, but we did find that sibling conflict was influenced by
 resource availability. Specifically, larvae spent more time begging on
 smaller carcasses, but only in smaller clutches. In addition, we found
 that resource availability affected patterns of female reproductive
 investment: when resource availability was low, females laid eggs more
 synchronously and produced fewer eggs but of a larger size. We discuss
 potential explanations for these results, and the implications of this
 study for understanding the factors that mediate family dynamics.
description: Data for Botterill-James
 et al. Behavioral EcologyLife history and
 behavioural data associated with all of the female
 broodsBotterillJames_BE_DataALL.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pm136
title: Data from: Homing of invasive Burmese pythons in South Florida: evidence for map and compass senses in snakes

description: Navigational ability is a critical component of an animal's spatial
 ecology and may influence the invasive potential of species. Burmese
 pythons (Python molurus bivittatus) are apex predators invasive to South
 Florida. We tracked the movements of 12 adult Burmese pythons in
 Everglades National Park, six of which were translocated 21–36 km from
 their capture locations. Translocated snakes oriented movement homeward
 relative to the capture location, and five of six snakes returned to
 within 5 km of the original capture location. Translocated snakes moved
 straighter and faster than control snakes and displayed movement path
 structure indicative of oriented movement. This study provides evidence
 that Burmese pythons have navigational map and compass senses and has
 implications for predictions of spatial spread and impacts as well as our
 understanding of reptile cognitive abilities.
description: Python
 radiolocationsThis file includes
 Burmese python capture locations, release locations, and radiolocations
 collected in the field.PythonData.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.550g3
title: Data from: Sperm competition generates evolution of increased paternal investment in a sex role-reversed seed beetle

description: When males provide females with resources at mating they can become the
 limiting sex in reproduction, in extreme cases leading to the reversal of
 typical courtship roles. The evolution of male provisioning is thought to
 be driven by male reproductive competition and selection for female
 fecundity enhancement. We used experimental evolution under male- or
 female-biased sex ratios and limited or unlimited food regimes to
 investigate the relative roles of these routes to male provisioning in a
 sex role-reversed beetle, Megabruchidius tonkineus, where males provide
 females with nutritious ejaculates. Males evolving under male-biased sex
 ratios transferred larger ejaculates than did males from female-biased
 populations, demonstrating a sizeable role for reproductive competition in
 the evolution of male provisioning. Although larger ejaculates elevated
 female lifetime offspring production, we found little evidence of
 selection for larger ejaculates via fecundity enhancement: males evolving
 under resource-limited and unlimited conditions did not differ in mean
 ejaculate size. Resource limitation did, however, affect the evolution of
 conditional ejaculate allocation. Our results suggest that the resource
 provisioning that underpins sex role reversal in this system is the result
 of male-male reproductive competition rather than of direct selection for
 males to enhance female fecundity.
description: Mating trait &
 fitness assaysData from laboratory
 assays of ejaculate weight (male weight loss during a single mating
 event), lifespan (days) of once-mated females, and the number of offspring
 produced from a single mating. Mating pairs were crosses between 11
 experimental evolution lines, evolved for 20 generations under one of four
 treatment combinations: male-biased sex ratio + fed, female-biased sex
 ratio + fed, male-biased sex ratio + unfed, female-biased sex ratio +
 unfed. Crosses were made within and between treatment combinations but not
 within lines.M tonkineus exp
 evol.xlsx
DOI: 10.15468/dl.6rcfmu
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 149 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 "TaxonKey is Brachyloma geissoloma",
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 The dataset includes 149 records from 9 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001225-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.353gc
title: Data from: Utility of internally transcribed spacer region of rDNA (ITS) and β-tubulin gene sequences to infer genetic diversity and migration patterns of Colletotrichum truncatum infecting Capsicum spp.

description: Anthracnose is among the most economically important diseases affecting
 pepper (Capsicum spp.) production in the tropics and subtropics. Of the
 three species of Colletotrichum implicated as causal agents of pepper
 anthracnose, C. truncatum is considered to be the most destructive in
 agro-ecosystems worldwide. However, the genetic variation and the
 migration potential of C. truncatum infecting pepper are not known. Five
 populations were selected for study and a two-locus (internally
 transcribed spacer region, ITS1-5.8S-ITS2, and β-tubulin, β-TUB) sequence
 data set was generated and used in the analyses. Sequences of the ITS
 region were less informative than β-tubulin gene sequences based on
 comparisons of DNA polymorphism indices. Trinidad had the highest genetic
 diversity and also had the largest effective population size in pairwise
 comparisons with the other populations. The Trinidad population also
 demonstrated significant genetic differentiation from the other
 populations. AMOVA and STRUCTURE analyses both suggested significant
 genetic variation within populations more so than among populations. A
 consensus Maximum Likelihood tree based on β-TUB gene sequences revealed
 very little intraspecific diversity for all isolates except for Trinidad.
 Two clades consisting solely of Trinidad isolates may have diverged
 earlier than the other isolates. There was also evidence of directional
 migration among the five populations. These findings may have a direct
 impact on the development of integrated disease management strategies to
 control C. truncatum infection in pepper.
description: Supplementary Table S1
 (a) and (b)Supplementary table S1
 (a) and (b) detailing the reference Internally transcribed spacer region
 (ITS) and beta-tubulin (BTUB) sequences of the five populations used in
 the study
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2n22h
title: Data from: The appropriateness of language found in research consent form templates: a computational linguistic analysis

description: Background: To facilitate informed consent, consent forms should use
 language below the grade eight level. Research Ethics Boards (REBs)
 provide consent form templates to facilitate this goal. Templates with
 inappropriate language could promote consent forms that participants find
 difficult to understand. However, a linguistic analysis of templates is
 lacking. Methods: We reviewed the websites of 124 REBs for their
 templates. These included English language medical school REBs in
 Australia/New Zealand (n=23), Canada (n=14), South Africa (n=8), the
 United Kingdom (n=34), and a geographically-stratified sample from the
 United States (n=45). Template language was analyzed using Coh-Metrix
 linguistic software (v.3.0, Memphis, USA). We evaluated the proportion of
 REBs with five key linguistic outcomes at or below grade eight.
 Additionally, we compared quantitative readability to the REBs' own
 readability standards. To determine if the template's country of
 origin or the presence of a local REB readability standard influenced the
 linguistic variables, we used a MANOVA model. Results: Of the REBs who
 provided templates, 0/94 (0%, 95% CI=0-3.9%) provided templates with all
 linguistic variables at or below the grade eight level. Relaxing the
 standard to a grade 12 level did not increase this proportion. Further,
 only 2/22 (9.1%, 95% CI= 2.5-27.8) REBs met their own readability
 standard. The country of origin (DF= 20, 177.5, F=1.97, p=0.01), but not
 the presence of an REB-specific standard (DF=5, 84, F=0.73, p=0.60),
 influenced the linguistic variables. Conclusions: Inappropriate language
 in templates is an international problem. Templates use words that are
 long, abstract, and unfamiliar. This could undermine the validity of
 participant informed consent. REBs should set a policy of screening
 templates with linguistic software.
description: Villafranca et al
 consent form template data DryadRaw data file with
 outputs from Coh-metrix and subsequent conversions of linguistic variables
 to grade levels. Conversion was done using the formulas described in the
 manuscript.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.47jp0
title: Data from: Feral cats are better killers in open habitats, revealed by animal-borne video

description: One of the key gaps in understanding the impacts of predation by small
 mammalian predators on prey is how habitat structure affects the hunting
 success of small predators, such as feral cats. These effects are poorly
 understood due to the difficulty of observing actual hunting behaviours.
 We attached collar-mounted video cameras to feral cats living in a
 tropical savanna environment in northern Australia, and measured variation
 in hunting success among different microhabitats (open areas, dense grass
 and complex rocks). From 89 hours of footage, we recorded 101 hunting
 events, of which 32 were successful. Of these kills, 28% were not eaten.
 Hunting success was highly dependent on microhabitat structure surrounding
 prey, increasing from 17% in habitats with dense grass or complex rocks to
 70% in open areas. This research shows that habitat structure has a
 profound influence on the impacts of small predators on their prey. This
 has broad implications for management of vegetation and disturbance
 processes (like fire and grazing) in areas where feral cats threaten
 native fauna. Maintaining complex vegetation cover can reduce predation
 rates of small prey species from feral cat predation.
description: HMcGregor et al_video
 collar dataMicrosoft Excel
 spreadsheets, including details of the 23 video-collar deployments on cats
 and all hunting events witnessed on camera.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jc77j
title: Data from: Ocean acidification alters predator behaviour and reduces predation rate

description: Ocean acidification poses a range of threats to marine invertebrates;
 however, the emerging and likely widespread effects of rising carbon
 dioxide (CO2) levels on marine invertebrate behaviour are still little
 understood. Here, we show that ocean acidification alters and impairs key
 ecological behaviours of the predatory cone snail Conus marmoreus.
 Projected near-future seawater CO2 levels (975 µatm) increased activity in
 this coral reef molluscivore more than threefold (from less than 4 to more
 than 12 mm min−1) and decreased the time spent buried to less than
 one-third when compared with the present-day control conditions (390
 µatm). Despite increasing activity, elevated CO2 reduced predation rate
 during predator–prey interactions with control-treated humpbacked conch,
 Gibberulus gibberulus gibbosus; 60% of control predators successfully
 captured and consumed their prey, compared with only 10% of elevated CO2
 predators. The alteration of key ecological behaviours of predatory
 invertebrates by near-future ocean acidification could have potentially
 far-reaching implications for predator–prey interactions and trophic
 dynamics in marine ecosystems. Combined evidence that the behaviours of
 both species in this predator–prey relationship are altered by elevated
 CO2 suggests food web interactions and ecosystem structure will become
 increasingly difficult to predict as ocean acidification advances over
 coming decades.
description: Watson et al Biology
 Letters Predator behaviour Dryad datasetData are organised in
 data sheets in the Excel file.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.6g6xaz
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 38507 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.