cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fb01pj3
title: Data from: Increased soil temperature and decreased precipitation during early life stages constrain grass seedling recruitment in cold desert restoration

description: 1. Seed-based restoration is one of the most difficult challenges for
 dryland restoration. Identifying environmental conditions that drive
 variation in seed and seedling mortality across similar restoration
 efforts could increase understanding of when and where restoration
 outcomes are likely to be favorable and identify new tools and strategies
 to improve outcomes. 2. We asked how variation in a suite of environmental
 predictors influenced germination, emergence, seedling establishment, and
 juvenile survival of four commonly sown perennial grass species across 33
 seeding experiments distributed over a ~160,000-km2 area of the Great
 Basin, a cold desert system in the western United States. 3. Across
 experiments, we observed wide variation in the rates of four demographic
 transitions and wide variation in environmental conditions experienced by
 plants at each stage. For all species, higher precipitation during the
 first 30 days following seeding was associated with an increase in
 germination. Conversely, higher soil temperature over this same time
 period was associated with a significant decrease in germination and
 emergence and soil temperature was associated with a substantial portion
 of the variation in germination and emergence probabilities observed
 across our seeding experiments. 4. Within the range of precipitation
 variation observed, we were unable to detect a significant relationship
 between seedling establishment the first growing season and cumulative
 precipitation the first year, precipitation during the first spring
 growing season, or annual climatic water deficit (CWD) the first year.
 Higher CWD the second growing season reduced seedling survival over that
 time period. 5. Synthesis and application. Our results show higher soil
 temperature negatively impacts grass seedling recruitment. Our results can
 be combined with seasonal and subseasonal temperature forecasts to improve
 restoration decision-making. These results also suggest climate warming
 will make restoration even more difficult, with our model estimates
 suggesting the 2°C increase in temperature expected in the Great Basin
 over the coming decades will decease germination and emergence by about
 30%. Lastly, while our field-based approach provided insight into
 short-term drivers of mortality, it did not provide insight into drivers
 of longer-term survival, suggesting a need to develop process-based
 approaches for predicting long-term restoration outcomes.
description: Demography
 dataContains data on seed
 and seedling demography and observation datesJames RRP Climwin
 observation dates response daily and monthly predictorsData used in climwin
 analysis
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.33518g8
title: Data from: Honeybee microbiome is stabilized in the presence of propolis

description: Honey bees have developed many unique mechanisms to help ensure the proper
 maintenance of homeostasis within the hive. One specific method includes
 the collection of antimicrobial plant resins and wax to form propolis,
 which is deposited throughout the hive. Propolis is believed to play a
 significant role in reducing disease load in the colony due to its
 antimicrobial and antiseptic properties. However, little is known on how
 propolis may be interacting with the commensal bacteria of the hive and if
 propolis alters the microbial community structure. In this study, we
 demonstrate that propolis appears to maintain a stable microbial community
 composition and reduce the overall diversity of the total honey bee
 microbiome. Several key members of the honey bee gut microbiota were
 significantly altered in the absence of propolis suggesting that it may
 play an important role in maintaining favorable levels of commensal
 bacteria. Overall, these findings demonstrate that propolis may help to
 maintain honey bee colony microbial health by limiting changes to the
 overall microbial community.
description: FastqFiles_MS0162_SimoneFinstrom_16Spool_REPLACE
 16s sequencing of the honey bee microbiome of propolis rich and
 propolis poor honey bees.
 FastqFiles_MS0162_SimoneFinstrom_16Spool.tar
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8234sk4
title: Data from: Mortality, perception, and scale: understanding how predation shapes space use in a wild prey population

description: Attempts to assess behavioral responses of prey to predation risk are
 often confounded by depredation of prey. Moreover, the scale at which the
 response of prey is assessed has important implications for discovering
 how predation risk alters prey behavior. Herein, we assessed space use of
 wild Ring-necked Pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) in response to spatial
 and temporal variation in recreational hunting. We radio-marked pheasants
 and monitored space use at two spatial scales: short-term seasonal home
 range, and nightly resting locations. Additionally, we considered temporal
 variation in predation risk by monitoring space use prior to and during
 the pheasant hunting season. Although we found no change in nightly
 resting location, pheasants subjected to predation risk expanded their
 home range and shifted home range location even when invulnerable to
 predation. Home range formation was plastic, with home ranges expanding
 and contracting as risk fluctuated before and during the hunting season.
 Depredation reduced the measured response within the population, obscuring
 the potential importance of perceived predation risk in shaping prey
 communities, particularly when not measured at the appropriate scale. By
 assessing space use of a wild prey population at multiple scales,
 considering spatial and temporal variation in predation risk, we show that
 not only does predation risk affect space use, but that the effects at the
 population level may be challenging to assess when not measured at the
 appropriate ecological scale because of the direct effects of differential
 mortality on the same behaviors.
description: PLOS_MS_data_08302019Contains data sets necessary to reproduce results, figures, and tables from the corresponding publication. Include Program R script for manipulating data and readying it for analysis as well as conducting analysis and reproducing figures. Data include pheasant locations, hunter detection, roost site vegetation, and pheasant survival status.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.dr1ms4v
title: Data from: Arboreal ant abundance tracks primary productivity in an Amazonian whitewater river system

description: Little is known about consumer productivity in the tropics despite the key
 feedbacks that animals impose on primary productivity. In the Amazon
 basin, seasonally flooded and unflooded forests exist side by side, and
 ants (Formicidae) dominate animal biomass. Although flooding has a direct,
 negative effect on soil-dwelling ants, it is less clear whether flooding
 has indirect effects on arboreal ants via associated changes in tree
 communities. To test whether seasonal inundation by whitewater affects
 arboreal ants, we investigated ant communities in adjacent flooded and
 unflooded forests along a major whitewater river in central-western
 Amazonia. Whitewater-flooded forest exhibits higher primary productivity
 than unflooded forest. We thus hypothesized that forest type would affect
 the productivity and the foraging traits of arboreal ants, and that these
 changes would be mediated by increases in plant-derived food for ants in
 flooded forest. We compared ant and plant communities between flooded and
 unflooded forest transects along the Juruá River in Amazonas, Brazil. We
 collected, identified, and counted terrestrial and arboreal ants, and we
 measured ant traits with putative relationships to foraging strategy. We
 also identified plant stems to characterize the abundance of ant food
 rewards. Flooding negatively affected the diversity and abundance of
 terrestrial ants but did not change the diversity of arboreal ants.
 Arboreal ants were more abundant and exhibited higher biomass in flooded
 forest than in unflooded forest. Arboreal ant traits also suggested that
 ants may rely more heavily on plant-derived food in flooded forest than in
 unflooded forest. These differences were associated with a higher
 abundance of plant stems predicted to contain ant food rewards in flooded
 forest than in unflooded forest. Our results indicate that the
 productivity of arboreal ants is affected by that of the underlying
 forest. Such effects may be mediated by the predominantly herbivorous
 foraging strategy of canopy ants, which would link ant populations closely
 to primary production and stoichiometry. Given ants' important
 functional roles, these differences in ant productivity between forest
 types may have consequences for other arthropods and feedbacks to plants
 throughout the Amazon basin.
description: All data from paper
 related to diversity, abundance, morphological traits, and plant
 communitiesOriginal and manipulated
 data files and associated code for R version 3.4.3.190830_JuruaAntDataset.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qh78q82
title: Data from: Exploring patterns of beta-diversity to test the consistency of biogeographical boundaries: a case study across forest plant communities of Italy

description: Aim. To date, despite their great potential biogeographical
 regionalization models have been mostly developed on descriptive and
 empirical bases. This paper aims at applying the beta-diversity framework
 on a statistically representative data set to analytically test the
 consistency of the biogeographical regionalization of Italian forests.
 Location. Italy Taxon. Vascular plants Methods. Forest plant communities
 were surveyed in 804 plots made in a statistically representative sample
 of forest communities, made by 201 sites of Italian forests across the
 three biogeographical regions of the country: Alpine, Continental, and
 Mediterranean. We conducted an ordination analysis and an analysis of beta
 diversity, decomposing it into its turnover and nestedness components.
 Results. Our results provide only partial support to the consistency of
 the biogeographical regionalization of Italy. While the differences in
 forest plant communities support the distinction between the Alpine and
 the other two regions, differences between Continental and Mediterranean
 regions had lower statistical support. Pairwise beta-diversity and its
 turnover component are higher between- than within biogeographical
 regions. This suggests that different regional species pools contribute to
 assembly of local communities and that spatial distance between-regions
 has a stronger effect than that within-regions. Main conclusions. Our
 findings confirm a biogeographical structure of the species pools that is
 captured by the biogeographical regionalization. However, non-significant
 differences between the Mediterranean and Continental biogeographical
 regions suggest that this biogeographical regionalization is not
 consistent for forest plant communities. Our results demonstrate that an
 analytical evaluation of species composition differences among regions
 using beta-diversity analysis is a promising approach for testing the
 consistency of biogeographical regionalization models. This approach is
 recommended to provide support to the biogeographic regionalization used
 in some environmental conservation polices adopted by EU.
description: Vascular species by
 Forest type and Biogeographic regionfield surveys in italian
 forests forest ecosystems, representative network (CONECOFOR, ICP
 Forests)Matrix_sp
 09-08-2019Dryad.xls
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.58bb05p
title: Data from: Biased movement drives local cryptic colouration on distinct urban pavements

description: Explanations of how organisms might adapt to urban environments have
 mostly focused on divergent natural selection and adaptive plasticity.
 However, differential habitat choice has been suggested as an alternative.
 Here we test for habitat choice in enhancing crypsis in ground-perching
 grasshoppers colonising an urbanised environment, composed of a mosaic of
 four distinctly coloured substrates (asphalt roads and adjacent
 pavements). Additionally, we determine its relative importance compared to
 present-day natural selection and phenotypic plasticity. We found that
 grasshoppers are very mobile but nevertheless approximately match the
 colour of their local substrate. By manipulating grasshopper colour we
 confirm that grasshoppers increase the usage of those urban substrates
 that resemble their own colours. This selective movement actively improves
 crypsis. Colour divergence between grasshoppers on different substrates is
 not or hardly due to present-day natural selection, because observed
 mortality rates are too low to counter-act random substrate use.
 Additional experiments also show negligible contributions from plasticity
 in colour. Our results confirm that matching habitat choice can be an
 important driver of adaptation to urban environments. In general, studies
 should more fully incorporate that individuals are not only selective
 targets (i.e. selected on by the environment), but also selective agents
 (i.e. selecting their own environments).
description: data and code for
 Edelaar et al drivers urban grasshopper crypsisAll the R code and data
 files used for the analyses.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h5r7m66
title: Data from: Vocal state change through laryngeal development

description: Across vertebrates, progressive changes in vocal behavior during postnatal
 development are typically attributed solely to developing neural circuits.
 How the changing body influences vocal development remains unknown. Here
 we show that state changes in the contact vocalizations of infant marmoset
 monkeys, which transition from noisy, low frequency cries to tonal, higher
 pitched vocalizations in adults, are caused partially by laryngeal
 development. Combining analyses of natural vocalizations, motorized
 excised larynx experiments, tensile material tests and high-speed imaging,
 we show that vocal state transition occurs via a sound source switch from
 vocal folds to apical vocal membranes, producing louder vocalizations with
 higher efficiency. We show with an empirically-based model of descending
 motor control how neural circuits could interact with changing laryngeal
 dynamics, leading to adaptive vocal development. Our results emphasize the
 importance of embodied approaches to vocal development, where exploiting
 biomechanical consequences of changing material properties can simplify
 motor control, reducing the computational load on the developing brain.
description: Supplementary data and
 codeSupplementaryDataAndCode.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t041bf0
title: Data from: Creosote growth rate and reproduction increase in post-fire environments

description: Human activities are changing patterns of ecological disturbance globally.
 In North American deserts, wildfire is increasing in size and frequency
 due to fuel characteristics of invasive annual grasses. Fire reduces the
 abundance and cover of native vegetation in desert ecosystems. In this
 study, we sought to characterize stem growth and reproductive output of a
 dominant native shrub in the Mojave Desert, creosote bush (Larrea
 tridentata (DC.) Coville) following wildfires that occurred in 2005. We
 sampled 55 shrubs along burned and unburned transects 12 years after the
 fires (2017) and quantified age, stem diameter, stem number, radial and
 vertical growth rates, and fruit production for each shrub. The shrubs on
 the burn transects were most likely post-fire resprouts based on stem age
 while stems from unburn transects dated from before the fire. Stem and
 vertical growth rates for shrubs on burned transects were 2.6 and 1.7
 times higher than that observed for stems on unburned shrubs. Fruit
 production of shrubs along burned transects was 4.7-fold more than shrubs
 along paired unburned transects. Growth rates and fruit production of
 shrubs in burned areas did not differ with increasing distance from the
 burn perimeter. Positive growth and reproduction responses of creosote
 following wildfires could be critical for soil stabilization and
 re-establishment of native plant communities in this desert system.
 Additional research is needed to assess if repeat fires that are
 characteristic of invasive grass-fire cycles may limit these benefits.
description: Fruit Counts
 2015-2017Fruit counts per shrub
 from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn interior/deep) from
 2015-2017.Height and Height Growth
 RateThe heights and vertical
 growth rates for each shrub from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn
 interior/deep). Data collected in 2017.Shrub
 VolumeShrub volume for each
 shrub from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn interior/deep). Data
 collected in 2017.Stem
 AgeStem age for each shrub
 from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn interior/deep). Data
 collected in 2017. Processed in 2018.Stem
 DiameterStem diameter for each
 shrub from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn interior/deep). Data
 collected in 2017.Stem
 NumberStem number for each
 shrub from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn interior/deep). Data
 collected in 2017.Stem Radial Growth
 RateStem radial growth rate
 for each shrub from each transect (unburned, burn edge, burn
 interior/deep). Data collected in 2017. Processed in
 2018.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.c7rg5tt
title: Data from: Preparation and characterization of water-borne alkyd-amino baking coatings based on waste PET

description: The recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the most attractive
 method for PET waste management because it not only decreases the load on
 landfill space, but also provides opportunities for reducing the use of
 raw petrochemical products. Therefore, in this investigation, waste PET
 was glycolyzed using neopentyl glycol in the presence of 0.5% zinc acetate
 as a trans-esterification catalyst at 220℃. The water-borne alkyd was
 successfully synthesized through polyesterification of the glycolyzed PET
 with tall oil fatty acid, phthalic anhydride, pentaerythritol, isophthalic
 acid, benzoic acid and trimellitic anhydride. Furthermore, the water-borne
 alkyd-amino baking coatings were prepared from the water-borne alkyd based
 on waste PET and melamine formaldehyde resin curing agents and applied on
 tinplate. The water-borne alkyd-amino baking coatings exhibited overall
 good performance properties except for alkali resistance due to hydrolysis
 of ester bonds.
description: Includes
 files: The droplet size distributions of the prepared
 waterborne alkyd Dynamic viscosity versus shear rate of
 for the prepared alkyd resin at temperature 295 K 1H
 NMR spectra of prepared alkyd GPC chromatograms of the
 synthesized alkyd resin
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m3s4t57
title: Data from: Tree species identity determines wood decomposition via microclimatic effects

description: Empirical evidence suggests that the rich set of ecosystem functions and
 nature’s contributions to people provided by forests depends on tree
 diversity. Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research revealed that not
 only species richness per se but also other facets of tree diversity, such
 as tree identity, have to be considered to understand the underlying
 mechanisms. One important ecosystem function in forests is the
 decomposition of deadwood that plays a vital role in carbon and nutrient
 cycling and is assumed to be determined by above- and belowground
 interactions. However, the actual influence of tree diversity on wood
 decay in forests remains inconclusive. Recent studies suggest an important
 role of microclimate and advocate a systematical consideration of
 small-scale environmental conditions. We studied the influence of tree
 species richness, tree species identity, and microclimatic conditions on
 wood decomposition in a 12-year old tree diversity experiment in Germany,
 containing six native species within a tree species richness gradient. We
 assessed wood mass loss, soil microbial properties, and soil surface
 temperature in high temporal resolution. Our study shows a significant
 influence of tree species identity on all three variables. The presence of
 Scots pine strongly increased wood mass loss, while the presence of Norway
 spruce decreased it. This could be attributed to structural differences in
 the litter layer that were modifying the capability of plots to hold the
 soil surface temperature at night, consequently leading to enhanced
 decomposition rates in plots with higher night-time surface temperatures.
 Therefore, our study confirmed the critical role of microclimate for wood
 decomposition in forests and showed that soil microbial properties alone
 were not sufficient to predict wood decay. We conclude that tree diversity
 effects on ecosystem functions may include different biodiversity facets,
 such as tree identity, tree traits, and functional and structural
 diversity, in influencing the abiotic and biotic soil properties.
description: BEF data including soil
 microbial community data and wood decomposition from end point
 measurements in November 20172019_09_02_dryad_dataset_01.csvRaw data of soil surface temperature between February 2017 to January 2018. Logged in 30 minute intervals2019_09_01_climate_data.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qp447j0
title: Data from: Broad-front migration leads to strong migratory connectivity in the lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

description: Aim: Migratory animals regularly move between often distant breeding and
 non-breeding ranges. Knowledge about how these ranges are linked by
 movements of individuals from different populations is crucial for
 unravelling temporal variability in population spatial structuring and for
 identifying environmental drivers of population dynamics acting at
 different spatio-temporal scales. We performed a large-scale
 individual-based migration tracking study of the lesser kestrel (Falco
 naumanni), an Afro-Palearctic migratory raptor, to determine the patterns
 of migratory connectivity of European breeding populations. Location:
 Europe, Africa. Methods: Migration data were recorded using different
 devices (geolocators, Argos PTTs, GPS loggers) from 87 individuals
 breeding in the three core European populations, located in the Iberian,
 Italian and Balkan peninsulas. We estimated connectivity by the Mantel
 correlation coefficient (rM), and computed both the degree of separation
 between the non-breeding areas of individuals from the same population
 (i.e., the population spread) and the relative size of the non-breeding
 range (i.e., the non-breeding range spread). Results: European lesser
 kestrels migrated on a broad-front across the Mediterranean Sea and Sahara
 Desert, with different populations using different routes. Iberian birds
 migrated to western Sahel (Senegal, Mauritania, western Mali), Balkan
 birds migrated chiefly to central-eastern Sahel (Niger, Nigeria, Chad),
 whereas Italian ones spread from eastern Mali to Nigeria. Spatial
 differentiation of non-breeding areas led to a strong migratory
 connectivity (rM = 0.58), associated with a relatively high population
 (637 km) and non-breeding range (1149 km) spread. Main conclusions: Our
 comprehensive analysis of the non-breeding distribution of European lesser
 kestrel populations revealed a strong migratory connectivity, a rare
 occurrence in long-distance avian migrants. The geographic conformation of
 the species’ breeding and non-breeding ranges, together with broad-front
 migration across ecological barriers, promoted the differentiation of
 migratory routes and non-breeding areas. Strong connectivity could then
 arise because of both high population spread and broad non-breeding range.
description: Summary of lesser
 kestrel migration tracking dataSummary of lesser
 kestrel migration tracking information for 94 migration events from 87
 individuals breeding at 25 colony sites of southern
 Europesummary migration tracking
 data.csv