cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.41qh7
title: Data from: Female Infidelity Is Constrained by El Niño Conditions in a Long-lived Bird

description: Explaining the remarkable variation in socially monogamous females’
 extra-pair (EP) behaviour revealed by decades of molecular paternity
 testing remains an important challenge. One hypothesis proposes that
 restrictive environmental conditions (e.g. extreme weather, food scarcity)
 limit females’ resources and increase EP behaviour costs, forcing females
 to reduce EP reproductive behaviours. For the first time, we tested this
 hypothesis by directly quantifying within-pair and EP behaviours rather
 than inferring behaviour from paternity. We evaluated whether warmer sea
 surface temperatures depress total pre-laying reproductive behaviours, and
 particularly EP behaviours, in socially paired female blue-footed boobies
 (Sula nebouxii). Warm waters in the Eastern Pacific are associated with El
 Niño Southern Oscillation and lead to decreased food availability and
 reproductive success in this and other marine predators. With warmer
 waters, females decreased their neighbourhood attendance, total copulation
 frequency, and laying probability, suggesting that they contend with
 restricted resources by prioritizing self-maintenance and committing less
 to reproduction, sometimes abandoning the attempt altogether. Females were
 also less likely to participate in EP courtship and copulations, but when
 they did, rates of these behaviours were unaffected by water temperature.
 Females’ neighbourhood attendance, total copulation frequency, and EP
 courtship probability responded to temperature differences at the
 between-season scale, and neighbourhood attendance and EP copulation
 probability were affected by within-season fluctuations. Path analysis
 indicated that decreased EP participation was not attributable to reduced
 female time available for EP activities. Together, our results suggest
 that immediate time and energy constraints were not the main factors
 limiting females’ infidelity. Our study shows that El Niño conditions
 depress female boobies’ EP participation and total reproductive activity.
 In addition to increasing general self-maintenance and reproductive costs,
 warm waters may increase costs specific to EP behaviours including
 divorce, reduced male parental care or pathogen exposure. Our results
 suggest that female boobies strategically refrained from EP behaviours to
 avoid these or other longer term costs, rather than being compelled by
 immediate constraints. This study demonstrates that current environmental
 conditions affect females’ mating decisions, contributing to variation in
 EP behaviours, even in a long-lived, iteroparous species that can buffer
 against temporary adversity.
description: Effect of sea surface
 temperature on booby reproductive behaviorsData were acquired
 through field observations, long-term monitoring of the breeding colony,
 and publicly available climate data. Data are provided in the
 "Data" sheet, and column headings are defined in the
 "Description" sheet of the excel workbook.ForDryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.62cp0
title: Data from: Telomere length reflects reproductive effort indicated by corticosterone levels in a long-lived seabird

description: Telomere length (TL) is a candidate biomarker of ageing and phenotypic
 quality, but little is known of the (physiological) causes of TL
 variation. We previously showed that individual common terns Sterna
 hirundo with high reproductive success had short telomeres independent of
 age, and this pattern was particularly strong in the longer telomeres of
 the within-individual TL distribution. To test whether this relation can
 be attributed to effects of reproductive effort, we investigated baseline
 corticosterone in relation to reproductive success (number of fledglings)
 and TL. In this context, we assume that variation in baseline
 corticosterone can be interpreted as index of energy expenditure and
 allostatic load. Males with higher corticosterone levels during
 incubation, compared between and within individuals, achieved higher
 reproductive success and had shorter telomeres. The effect on telomeres
 was more pronounced in corticosterone measured later in incubation and in
 the longer telomeres of the within-individual TL distribution. Female
 corticosterone level during incubation was neither related to reproductive
 success nor to TL. That we observed these effects only in males mirrors
 different parental roles during reproduction in the common tern, where
 males do most of the chick provisioning. The negative association between
 reproductive success and TL suggests individual differences in
 reproductive effort as reflected in, or mediated by, baseline
 corticosterone. We see this result as a promising step towards unravelling
 the physiological causes of variation in TL and the costs of reproduction.
description: Data for Bauch et al.
 MEC-16-0736Contains raw data used
 in Bauch et al. MEC-16-0736. For variable explanations see ReadMe
 file.Data_Bauch-etal_MEC-16-0736.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.vt4m939
title: Data from: Maintenance costs of male dominance and sexually antagonistic selection in the wild

description: 1. Variation in dominance status determines male mating and reproductive
 success, but natural selection for male dominance can be detrimental or
 antagonistic for female performance, and ultimately their fitness.
 Attaining and maintaining a high dominance status in a population of
 competing individuals is physiologically costly for males. But how male
 dominance status is mediated by maintenance energetics is currently not
 well understood, nor are the correlational effects of male energetics on
 his sisters recognized. 2. We conducted laboratory and field experiments
 on rodent populations to test whether selective breeding for male
 dominance status (dominant vs. subordinate breeding lines)
 antagonistically affected basal metabolic rate (BMR) and fitness of
 females in the wild conditions. 3. Our results showed elevated BMR in
 females, but not in males, from the dominant breeding line. However,
 phenotypically dominant males from the subordinate breeding line had the
 highest BMR. 4. Males from the dominant line with low BMR sired the most
 litters and offspring in the field. Similarly, females from the dominant
 selection line tended to have more offspring if they had lower BMR, while
 the opposite trend was found in females from the subordinate selection
 line. The highest probability to reproduce had females of both high and
 low BMR, as indicated by significant quadratic selection gradient. 5. The
 increased female BMR resulting from selection for male dominance suggests
 genetic incompatibility between sexes in metabolism inheritance. Elevated
 BMR in behaviourally dominant males, but not in males from the dominant
 breeding line, suggests physiological costs in males not genetically
 suited for dominance. 6. Fitness costs of elevated maintenance costs
 (measured as BMR) shown here support the energetic compensation hypothesis
 where high BMR is selected against as it would trade-off energy required
 for other important life functions.
description: dataPhenotypic and fitness
 data.codesR
 codes.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sm55f
title: Data from: Stoichiometric N:P flexibility and mycorrhizal symbiosis favor plant resistance against drought

description: 1. Drought induces changes in the nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) cycle
 but most plant species have limited flexibility to take up nutrients under
 such variable or unbalanced N and P availability. Both the degree of
 flexibility in plant N:P ratio and of root symbiosis with arbuscular
 mycorrhizal (AM) fungi might control plant resistance to drought-induced
 changes in nutrient availability, but this has not been directly tested.
 2. Here, we examined the role of plant N:P stoichiometric status and
 mycorrhizal symbiosis in the drought-resistance of dominant and
 subordinate species in a semi-natural grassland. 3. We reduced water
 availability using rainout shelters (control vs drought) and measured how
 plant biomass responded for the dominant and subordinate species. We then
 selected a dominant (Paspalum dilatatum) and a subordinate species
 (Cynodon dactylon), for which we investigated the N:P stoichiometric
 status, mycorrhizal root colonization and water-use efficiency. 4. The
 biomass of all dominant plant species, but not subordinate species,
 decreased under drought. Drought increased soil available nitrogen, and
 thus increased soil N:P ratio, due to decreasing plant N uptake. The
 dominant Paspalum dilatatum showed a high degree of plant N:P homeostasis
 and a considerable reduction in biomass under drought. At the opposite,
 the more flexible subordinate species Cynodon dactylon increased its N
 uptake and water-use efficiency, apparently due to stronger symbiosis with
 mycorrhizae, and maintained its biomass. 5. Synthesis. We conclude that
 the maintenance of N:P homeostasis in dominant species, possibly because
 of a large root nutrient foraging capacity, becomes inefficient when water
 stress limits N mobility in the soil. By contrast, we demonstrate that
 higher stoichiometric N:P flexibility coupled with stronger mutualistic
 association with mycorrhizae allow subordinate species to better withstand
 drought perturbations. Using a stoichiometric approach in a field
 experiment, our study provides for the first time clear and novel
 understandings of the mechanisms involved in drought-resistance within the
 plant-mycorrhizae-soil system.
description: Full_Results_MariotteFull data used in the manuscript. Plant C, N and P. Soil N and P. Soil moisture. Mycorrhizal root colonisation. Plant biomass.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pk845
title: Data from: Road salt and organic additives affect mosquito growth and survival: an emerging problem in wetlands

description: The global increase in the application rate of road salts such as sodium
 chloride (NaCl) has led to concern about their negative effects on
 roadside habitats and freshwater ecosystems. To reduce the application
 rate of NaCl and minimize the ecological effects of road salts,
 transportation agencies are continuously seeking alternative salts such as
 magnesium chloride (MgCl 2) and organic additives such as beet juice and
 distillation byproducts. Yet, there is remarkably little information about
 how these road salt alternatives and additives affect aquatic communities,
 including their effects on mosquito populations. Nonetheless,
 understanding how anthropogenic factors such as road salts and salt
 additives affect mosquito populations could help minimize threats to human
 health, especially in urban environments. We used outdoor, freshwater
 mesocosms to experimentally investigate how the road salt MgCl 2 and two
 organic additives affect mosquito (Culex restuans) survival and emergence.
 Additionally, we measured changes to abiotic aspects of the environment
 that could affect mosquito larvae during development. We found that
 increased concentrations of MgCl 2 reduced mosquito survival while organic
 additives increased food resources that, in turn, reduced the average time
 to emergence for mosquitoes. Additionally, the organic additives reduced
 dissolved oxygen (DO) to hypoxic levels, which might negatively affect
 mosquito predators such as fish. In the absence of toxic concentrations of
 MgCl 2 or other salts, reduced predation coupled with the faster emergence
 times, means that organic additives, might increase mosquito population
 size. More comprehensive studies of multi-trophic interactions in
 freshwater ecosystems should be conducted before agencies promote the
 application of alternative road salts and road salt additives.
description: Schuler and relyea
 mosquito data for dryadThe first tab has the
 number of mosquitoes that emerged on each day of the experiment. The
 second tab has all of the zooplankton, chlorophyll A, and abiotic data
 collected for the experiment.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2s7mc
title: Data from: Hurricane-mediated defoliation of kelp beds and pulsed delivery of kelp detritus to offshore sedimentary habitats

description: Severe storm events are important agents of disturbance that can transport
 large quantities of algal detritus from highly productive kelp beds (or
 forests) in shallow water to deeper, more food-limited areas. We measured
 canopy cover in shallow kelp beds (5 to 15 m depth) and the cover of
 detrital kelp in sedimentary habitats directly offshore of these beds (20
 to 45 m) before and after Hurricane Earl, which struck the Atlantic coast
 of Nova Scotia in September 2010. The storm resulted in large losses of
 kelp canopy cover (from 71.0 to 38.7%, averaged across sites) and
 significantly increased the cover of detrital kelp deposits below the kelp
 beds (from 1.5 to 3.4%). Detrital deposits were more commonly found in a
 semi-protected bay than off an exposed headland and persisted in the bay
 for at least 6 wk. Sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis were
 associated with detrital kelp deposits in offshore habitats. At sites with
 the greatest amount of detrital kelp, we estimated that sea urchins could
 consume this material within 2 mo, indicating that storm-generated
 detrital pulses may be an important form of trophic connectivity between
 adjacent ecosystems off this coast.
description: Detrital kelp data from:
 Hurricane-mediated defoliation of kelp beds and pulsed delivery of kelp
 detritus to offshore sedimentary habitats. A Canadian Healthy Oceans
 Network Ecosystem Function Project, EF-11Detrital kelp % cover
 measured in deep regions adjacent to kelp beds before and after Hurricane
 Earl hit the coast of Nova Scotia in Sept 2010. Data collected with video
 transects at 8 sites in St Margarets Bay and Sambro Island, near Halifax,
 Nova Scotia, Canada. Depth (m) and date of transect are
 recorded.Hurricane Earl
 Data.csvKelp cover data from:
 Hurricane-mediated defoliation of kelp beds and pulsed delivery of kelp
 detritus to offshore sedimentary habitats. A Canadian Healthy Oceans
 Network Ecosystem Function Project, EF-11Kelp % cover measured in
 shallow kelp beds (5-25 m depth range) before and after Hurricane Earl hit
 the coast of Nova Scotia in Sept 2010. Data were collected with video
 transects at 8 sites in St Margarets Bay and Sambro Island, near Halifax,
 Nova Scotia, Canada. Depth (m) and date of transect are
 recorded.Hurricane Earl Kelp
 Data.csvUrchin and drift kelp
 data from: Hurricane-mediated defoliation of kelp beds and pulsed delivery
 of kelp detritus to offshore sedimentary habitats. A Canadian Healthy
 Oceans Network Ecosystem Function Project, EF-11.Percent cover of drift
 kelp and sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) density measured
 from August 2010 to Feb 2011 in a deep sedimentary basin off Owl's
 Head, St Margarets Bay. Depth in m.OH urchin and detritus measures
 2010 Hurricane.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2k55t
title: Data from: House finch populations differ in early inflammatory signaling and pathogen tolerance at the peak of Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection

description: Host individuals and populations often vary in their responses to
 infection, with direct consequences for pathogen spread and evolution.
 While considerable work has focused on the mechanisms underlying
 differences in resistance—the ability to kill pathogens—we know little
 about the mechanisms underlying tolerance—the ability to minimize fitness
 losses per unit pathogen. Here, we examine patterns and mechanisms of
 tolerance between two populations of house finches (Haemorhous [formerly
 Carpodacus] mexicanus) with different histories with the bacterial
 pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG). After infection in a common
 environment, we assessed two metrics of pathology, mass loss and eye
 lesion severity, as proxies for fitness. We calculated tolerance using two
 methods, one based on pathology and pathogen load at the peak of infection
 (point tolerance) and the other based on the integrals of these metrics
 over time (range tolerance). Alabama birds, which have a significantly
 longer history of exposure to MG, showed more pronounced point tolerance
 than Arizona birds, while range tolerance did not differ between
 populations. Alabama birds also displayed lower inflammatory cytokine
 signaling and lower fever early in infection. These results suggest that
 differences in inflammatory processes, which can significantly damage host
 tissues, may contribute to variation in tolerance among house finch
 individuals and populations. Such variation can affect pathogen spread and
 evolution in ways not predictable by resistance alone and sheds light on
 the costs and benefits of inflammation in wild animals.
description: ActivityPlease see README file for description of all data files.AntibodiesPlease see README file for description of all data files.FeverPlease see README file for description of all data files.Pathology and Path_LoadPlease see README file for description of all data files.Tolerance and Cytokine DataPlease see README file for description of all data files.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17879487
title: Datos parcela de ensayo: Lisímetro de pesada

description: Coleccion de datos recogidos en las campañas 2023 y 2024  en la parcela de ensayo: lisímetro de pesada 

10 archivos excell+readme



Suelo:Humedad suelo, textura

Planta:Ndvi, suelo sombreado,PAR,potencial hídrico,Tª cubierta,producción, calidad

Riego
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17879486
title: Datos parcela de ensayo: Lisímetro de pesada

description: Coleccion de datos recogidos en las campañas 2023 y 2024  en la parcela de ensayo: lisímetro de pesada 

10 archivos excell+readme



Suelo:Humedad suelo, textura

Planta:Ndvi, suelo sombreado,PAR,potencial hídrico,Tª cubierta,producción, calidad

Riego
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2r054
title: Data from: Invasive mutualisms between a plant pathogen and insect vectors in the Middle East and Brazil

description: Complex multi-trophic interactions in vectorborne diseases limit our
 understanding and ability to predict outbreaks. Arthropod-vectored
 pathogens are especially problematic, with the potential for novel
 interspecific interactions during invasions. Variations and novelties in
 plant–arthropod–pathogen triumvirates present significant threats to
 global food security. We examined aspects of a phytoplasma pathogen of
 citrus across two continents. ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia’ causes
 Witches' Broom Disease of Lime (WBDL) and has devastated citrus
 production in the Middle East. A variant of this phytoplasma currently
 displays asymptomatic or ‘silent’ infections in Brazil. We first studied
 vector capacity and fitness impacts of the pathogen on its vectors. The
 potential for co-occurring weed species to act as pathogen reservoirs was
 analysed and key transmission periods in the year were also studied. We
 demonstrate that two invasive hemipteran insects—Diaphorina citri and
 Hishimonus phycitis—can vector the phytoplasma. Feeding on
 phytoplasma-infected hosts greatly increased reproduction of its invasive
 vector D. citri both in Oman and Brazil; suggesting that increased fitness
 of invasive insect vectors thereby further increases the pathogen's
 capacity to spread. Based on our findings, this is a robust system for
 studying the effects of invasions on vectorborne diseases and highlights
 concerns about its spread to warmer, drier regions of Brazil.
description: egg number stats
 codeegg
 number stats.ROman Egg
 dataomaeggdata.txtBrazil Egg Databraeggdata.txtsurvival data 1Asurvival data 1CInsect datains data.txt
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5nf45
title: Data from: An ambusher’s arsenal: chemical crypsis in the puff adder (Bitis arietans)

description: Ambush foragers use a hunting strategy that places them at risk of
 predation by both visual and olfaction-oriented predators. Resulting
 selective pressures have driven the evolution of impressive visual crypsis
 in many ambushing species, and may have led to the development of chemical
 crypsis. However, unlike visual crypsis, few studies have attempted to
 demonstrate chemical crypsis. Field observations of puff adders (Bitis
 arietans) going undetected by several scent-orientated predator and prey
 species lead us to investigate chemical crypsis in this ambushing species.
 We trained dogs (Canis familiaris) and meerkats (Suricata suricatta) to
 test whether a canid and a herpestid predator could detect B. arietans
 using olfaction. We also tested for chemical crypsis in five species of
 active foraging snakes, predicted to be easily detectable. Dogs and
 meerkats unambiguously indicated active foraging species, but failed to
 correctly indicate puff adder, confirming that B. arietans employs
 chemical crypsis. This is the first demonstration of chemical crypsis
 anti-predatory behavior, though the phenomenon may be widespread among
 ambushers, especially those that experience high mortality rates due to
 predation. Our study provides additional evidence for the existence of an
 ongoing chemically-mediated arms race between predator and prey species.
description: Scent-matching data on
 Puff Adders from meerkat and dog modelsData collected from
 scent-matching trials conducted on dog and meerkat models using puff adder
 scent, and scent from several other species of active foraging
 snakesProceedingsB_DATA.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5q35k
title: Data from: Isolated in an ocean of grass: low levels of gene flow between termite subpopulations

description: Habitat fragmentation is one of the most important causes of biodiversity
 loss, but many species are distributed in naturally patchy habitats. Such
 species are often organized in highly dynamic metapopulations or in patchy
 populations with high gene flow between subpopulations. Yet, there are
 also species that exist in stable patchy habitats with small
 subpopulations and presumably low dispersal rates. Here, we present
 population genetic data for the ‘magnetic’ termite Amitermes meridionalis,
 which show that short distances between subpopulations do not hinder
 exceptionally strong genetic differentiation (FST: 0.339; RST: 0.636).
 Despite the strong genetic differentiation between subpopulations, we did
 not find evidence for genetic impoverishment. We propose that loss of
 genetic diversity might be counteracted by a long colony life with low
 colony turnover. Indeed, we found evidence for the inheritance of colonies
 by so-called ‘replacement reproductives’. Inhabiting a mound for several
 generations might result in loss of gene diversity within a colony but
 maintenance of gene diversity at the subpopulation level.
description: Microsatellite genotypes
 Amitermes meridionalisThese are the
 microsatellite genotypes of all A. meridionalis individuals included in
 the corresponding study, collected between 2005 and 2007 in Northern
 Australia. The sample locations of the colonies are found in the file:
 Sample locations Amitermes meridionalis.Sample locations
 Amitermes meridionalisThese are the sample
 locations of all sampled colonies from the corresponding
 study.