cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.hx3ffbg9c
title: Distinct taxonomic and phylogenetic patterns of plant communities on acid and limestone soils in subtropical and tropical China

description: Question: Understanding the mechanisms determining species composition is
 one of the central goals in ecology. The limestone landscape of
 southwestern China is one of the most widely-known landscapes developed on
 carbonate bedrock in the world. We explored the following question: What
 are the patterns of species composition and phylogenetic structures of the
 communities developed on the acid and limestone soils? Location:
 Southwestern China Methods: Using 536 plots on acid and limestone soils,
 we identified distinct vegetation types on both soil types based on
 hierarchical clustering and ordination. Variation partitioning partitioned
 the effect of climate, geographic distance and soil on species
 composition. Generalized linear models determined the effects of climate
 and soil on phylogenetic diversities. Results: The typical vegetation on
 acid soils is evergreen broad leaved forests indicated by Castanopsis
 species, while typical vegetation on limestone soils is mixed evergreen
 and deciduous forests indicated by a high proportion of deciduous trees
 and calciphytes. Soil type was much more important in driving species
 composition than climate and spatial distance. The standardized mean
 pairwise phylogenetic distance (ses.MPD) and mean nearest taxon distance
 (ses.MNTD) were significantly lower on limestone soils than on acid soils,
 indicating a more clustered phylogenetic structure. The effect of soil on
 ses.MPD was stronger than on ses.MNTD, and ses.MNTD increased with
 increasing annual temperature and precipitation seasonality on acid soils
 but decreased on limestone soils, suggesting that soil affected
 phylogenetic structure at relatively deep branches, while climate combined
 with soil mainly affects the relatively recent branches, as ses.MPD
 measures phylogenetic structure at deep branches and ses.MNTD at shallow
 branches. Conclusions: This study highlights the importance of soil in
 shaping community structure at a regional scale, and it also reveals the
 unique features of limestone vegetation and supports the validity of
 limestone vegetation types in the Chinese vegetation classification
 system.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.c2fqz6141
title: Liana abundance and diversity increase with rainfall seasonality along a precipitation gradient in Panama

description: In tropical regions, rainfall gradients often explain the abundance and
 distribution of plant species. For example, many tree and liana species
 adapted to seasonal drought are more abundant and diverse in
 seasonally-dry forests, characterized by long periods of seasonal water
 deficit. Mean annual precipitation (MAP) is commonly used to explain plant
 distributions across climate gradients. However, the relationship between
 MAP and plant distribution is often weak, raising the question of whether
 other seasonal precipitation patterns better explain plant distributions
 in seasonally-dry forests. In this study, we examine the relationship
 between liana abundance and multiple metrics of seasonal and annual
 rainfall distribution to test the hypothesis that liana density and
 diversity increase with increasing seasonal drought along a rainfall
 gradient across the isthmus of Panama. We found that a normalized
 seasonality index, which combines MAP and the variability of monthly
 rainfall throughout the year, was a significant predictor of both liana
 density and species richness, whereas MAP, rainfall seasonality, and the
 mean dry season precipitation (MDP) were far weaker predictors. The strong
 response of lianas to the normalized seasonality index indicates that, in
 addition to the total annual amount of rainfall, how rainfall is
 distributed throughout the year is an important determinant of the
 hydrological conditions that favor liana proliferation. Our findings imply
 that changes in annual rainfall and rainfall seasonality will determine
 the future distribution and abundance of lianas. Models that aim to
 predict future plant diversity, distribution, and abundance may need to
 move beyond MAP to a more detailed understanding of rainfall variability
 at sub-annual timescales.
DOI: 10.6078/d17t2g
title: Dataset for: Factory Benefits to Paying Workers More: The Critical Role of Compensation Systems in Apparel Manufacturing

description: While many stakeholders believe worker wages in global supply chains are
 too low, there is disagreement about what, if anything, can be done to
 raise wages. Through a two-year quasi-experiment in an operating apparel
 factory, we assess the effects on productivity and profits of raising
 worker wages with a re-designed compensation system. We show that, even
 within current factory margins and constraints, important wage gains
 (4.2–9.7%) are possible and profitable. Productivity increased
 8–10%-points while turnover decreased markedly. Workers were motivated by
 the potential for increased wages from an accelerating group rate as well
 as increased engagement and sense of fair compensation. Workers focused
 their increased effort on reducing quality defects and tardiness, two
 behaviors which individual workers largely control. Additional
 productivity-increasing behaviors were constrained by skill, position, and
 conflicts arising from free riders. Advanced apparel manufacturing demands
 a more engaged workforce; this research provides early evidence that
 compensation systems can be a critical tool to meet multiple needs.
description: This dataset was used to conduct the regression analyses
 essential to the argument in "Factory Benefits to Paying Workers
 More: The Critical Role of Compensation Systems in Apparel
 Manufacturing"
 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227510).
DOI: 10.15468/dl.gnwz64
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 4 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "Country is Russian Federation",
 "GadmGid is RUS.44_1",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "TaxonKey is Lanzia luteovirescens"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 4 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001952-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.wh70rxwhr
title: Learning from dynamic traits: Seasonal shifts yield insights into ecophysiological tradeoffs across scales from macroevolutionary to intra-individual

description: Premise of the Research. Phylogenetic comparative methods provide a
 powerful approach for exploring the macroevolution of plant functional
 traits. Such approaches can uncover trait-trait correlations through
 evolutionary time, as well as provide evidence of the role of traits in
 adaptation across environmental gradients. For continuous traits, most
 phylogenetic comparative approaches to date employ a single trait value
 per species, often a mean of sampled individuals, or alternatively
 incorporate intraspecific variation as a distribution around such a mean.
 It has been known for quite some time that many of the most
 physiologically and ecologically important plant traits are actually
 highly plastic, changing dynamically across a growing season, with
 whole-plant development, or in response to environmental conditions. Here
 we demonstrate one possible approach to assessing the evolution of such
 dynamic traits, the use of function-valued phylogenetic comparative
 methods. Methodology. Leaf traits were sampled across 25 taxa in the genus
 Cornus at six time points throughout the growing season in a common garden
 context, followed by contrasting sets of alternative analyses to
 demonstrate the consequences of researcher decisions on study conclusions.
 Pivotal Results. The vast majority of assessed traits exhibit substantial
 seasonal shifts. These shifts cause traditional macroevolutionary
 correlations assessed at different sampling dates to yield conflicting
 results. Function-valued approaches indicate that seasonal shifts in many
 traits are evolutionarily correlated, with implications for the origin of
 trait-trait tradeoffs. Seasonal trait plasticity is also evolutionarily
 correlated with native habitat environmental gradients across Cornus.
 Conclusions. Because a very large number of plant functional traits are
 not fixed, but vary dynamically over time or with environmental
 conditions, stronger insights into the evolution of plant functional
 traits can emerge when this dynamism is explicitly incorporated into
 phylogenetic comparative approaches. We encourage the adoption of such
 approaches, as well as the development of better tools for doing so.
description: Leaf trait data sampled from the collections of the Arnold
 Arboretum over the 2015 growing season. Missing data is indicated by a
 period. See article full text for details. Native habitat climate and soil
 data derived from global climate and soil data layers using occurrence
 data from digitized herbarium records housed on GBIF and iDigBio. See
 article full text for details. Results of phylogenetic comparative
 analyses also included, analyzed as described in the article full
 text.
description: The unique plant identification numbers used in the data
 presented here refer to the Arnold Arboretum plant accession naming
 system, and can be cross-referenced with ArbExplorer and other public
 resources about the collections.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.34tmpg4fr
title: In vitro impact of distinct FSH glycosylation variants on FSH receptor-stimulated signal transduction and functional selectivity

description: Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) exists as different major glycoforms
 that differ in glycosylation of the hormone-specific β-subunit.
 Tetra-glycosylated FSH (FSH24) and tri-glycosylated FSH (FSH21) are the
 most abundant forms found in humans. Employing distinct readouts in HEK293
 cells stably expressing the human FSH receptor, we here compared
 intracellular signaling triggered by human pituitary FSH preparations
 (FSH21and FSH24) as well as by equine FSH (eFSH), and human recombinant
 FSH (recFSH), each exhibiting distinct glycosylation patterns. The
 potencies in eliciting cAMP production were
 eFSH&gt;FSH21&gt;FSH24&gt;recFSH, whereas in the ERK1/2
 activation readout potencies were FSH21≥eFSH&gt;recFSH&gt;FSH24.
 In β-arrestin 1/2 CRISPR/Cas9 HEK293 KO cells, FSH21 exhibited a
 preference towards β-arrestin-mediated ERK1/2 activation as revealed by a
 drastic decrease in pERK during the first 15min exposure to this
 glycoform. Further, exposure of β-arrestin1/2 KO cells to H89 additionally
 decreased pERK1/2 albeit to a significantly lower extent in response to
 FSH21. Concurrent silencing of both β-arrestin and PKA signaling, did not
 completely suppress pERK in response to FSH glycoform, suggesting that
 pathways other than those dependent on Gs-protein and β-arrestins also
 contribute to FSH-stimulated pERK1/2. All four FSH glycoforms stimulated
 iCa2+ accumulation through influx from Ca2+ channels as well as release
 from intracellular stores; however, iCa2+ accumulation in response to
 FSH21 was more dependent on the latter, suggesting differences in the
 mechanisms through which FSH glycoforms promote  iCa2+
 accumulation.These data indicate that FSH glycosylation plays an important
 role in defining both the intensity of signal activation and the balance
 among mechanistically different pathways mediating activation of distinct
 signaling cascades.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.905qfttg4
title: Monitoring of the invasion of Spartina alterniflora from 1985 to 2015 in Zhejiang Province, China

description: Background: On the coast of China, Spartina alterniflora ( S. alterniflora
 ) is an invasive plant that replaces native vegetation and has a serious
 negative impact on the local ecosystem. Monitoring the spatial
 distribution of and dynamic change in S. alterniflora can reveal its
 expansion mechanism and is critical for coastal ecosystem management. The
 purpose of this study was to map the distribution of S. alterniflora in
 Zhejiang Province from 1985 to 2015 using a time series of Landsat TM/OLI
 images and analyze its temporal and spatial expansion patterns. Results:
 Based on the Landsat images of four periods (1985, 1995, 2005 and 2015),
 the distribution of S. alterniflora was mapped using a decision tree
 combined with expert knowledge, and then the temporal and spatial
 heterogeneity of the dynamic changes in S. alterniflora were analyzed. The
 classification accuracy was 90.3%. S. alterniflora has expanded rapidly in
 recent decades after being introduced into southern Zhejiang. Between 1985
 and 2015, S. alterniflora increased its distribution by 10,000 hm 2 ,
 replacing native vegetation and becoming the main salt marsh vegetation in
 tidal flats. Overall, S. alterniflora expanded from south to north and had
 the fastest expansion rate (463.64 hm 2 /year) between 1995 and 2005. S.
 alterniflora was widely distributed in the tidal flats of bays and
 estuaries and expanded outward as sediment accumulated. Conclusions : This
 study reveals the dynamic change in S. alterniflora in Zhejiang and
 contributes to the control and management of this invasive plant.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gqnk98sh6
title: Lineage identification affects estimates of evolutionary mode in marine snails

description: In order to study evolutionary pattern and process we need to be able to
 accurately identify species and the evolutionary lineages from which they
 are derived. Determining the concordance between genetic and morphological
 variation of living populations, and then directly comparing extant and
 fossil morphological data, provides a robust approach for improving our
 identification of lineages through time. We investigate genetic and shell
 morphological variation in extant species of Penion marine snails from New
 Zealand, and extend this analysis into deep time using fossils. We find
 that genetic and morphological variation identify similar patterns and
 support most currently recognised, extant species. However, some taxonomic
 over-splitting is detected due to shell size being a poor trait for
 species delimitation, and we identify incorrect assignment of some fossil
 specimens. We infer that a single evolutionary lineage (Penion sulcatus)
 has existed for 22 million years, with most aspects of shell shape and
 shell size evolving under a random walk. However, by removing samples
 previously classified as the extinct species P. marwicki, we instead
 detect morphological stasis for one axis of shell shape variation. This
 result demonstrates how lineage identification can change our perception
 of evolutionary pattern and process.
description: Additional tables, figures and files for the genetic and
 morphometric analyses in 'Lineage identification affects estimates of
 evolutionary mode in marine snails'. This includes the Supplementary
 Material, as well as genepop and Structure genotype files, and an overall
 MorphoJ input file containing Procrustes coordinates and centroid size for
 all sampled shells (with an explanatory spreadsheet). Additional excel
 spreadsheets provide sample details for specimens used in the genetic and
 morphometric analyses, and the 'samples-on-NCBI' file provides
 NCBI accession numbers for all archived genetic data.
 The explanatory spreadsheet 'whelkmorpho-guide'
 provides a guide to the character string used to analyse the
 'fulldataset-forMorphoJ' Procrustes coordinate .csv file in
 MorphoJ.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.crjdfn30k
title: No evidence of inbreeding depression in fast declining herds of migratory caribou

description: Identifying inbreeding depression early in small and declining populations
 is essential for management and conservation decisions. Correlations
 between heterozygosity and fitness (HFCs) provide a way to identify
 inbreeding depression without prior knowledge of kinship among
 individuals. In Northern Quebec and Labrador, the size of two herds of
 migratory caribou (Rivière‐George, RG and
 Rivière‐aux‐Feuilles, RAF) has declined by one to two orders of
 magnitude in the last three decades. This raises the question of a
 possible increase in inbreeding depression originating from, and possibly
 contributing to, the demographic decline in those populations. Here, we
 tested for the association of genomic inbreeding indices (estimated with
 22,073 SNPs) with body mass and survival in 400 caribou sampled
 in RG and RAF herds between 1996 and
 2016. We found no association of individual heterozygosity or inbreeding
 coefficient with body mass or annual survival. Furthermore, those genomic
 inbreeding indices remained stable over the period monitored. These
 results suggest that the rapid and intense demographic decline of the
 herds did not cause inbreeding depression in those populations. Although
 we found no evidence for HFCs, if demographic decline continues,
 however, it is possible that such inbreeding depression would be
 triggered.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rbnzs7h70
title: Data from: Diagnostic accuracy of presepsin in predicting bacteremia in elderly patients admitted to the emergency department: prospective study in Japan

description: Objective Early detection of bacteremia in the elderly is needed in the
 emergency department (ED). Design, Setting, and Participants Prospective
 study in Japan, single center trial in patients who satisfied the sepsis
 criteria was conducted between September 2014 and March 2016. Forty-six
 elderly patients aged ≥70 years were included. Interventions Blood
 sampling to evaluate C-reactive protein (CRP), procalcitonin (PCT) and
 presepsin plasma levels; two sets of blood sampling for bacterial
 cultures; and evaluations of the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment
 (SOFA) and Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE II)
 scores were performed upon arrival at the ED. The results were compared
 between patients with bacteremia and those without bacteremia. Main
 Outcome Measure The accuracy of detecting bacteremia Results The presepsin
 value was significantly higher in the bacteremia group than in the
 non-bacteremia group (866.6 ± 184.6 pg/mL vs. 639.9 ± 137.1 pg/mL, p =
 0.03). The PCT and CRP did not significantly differ between the groups.
 The area under the receiver-operating-characteristic curve (AUC) values
 were not significantly different among presepsin (0.69), PCT (0.61), and
 CRP (0.53). Multivariate analysis showed that presepsin was independently
 associated with bacteremia (odds ratio, 8.84; 95% confidence interval,
 0.95–81.79; p = 0.02). Conclusion Presepsin could be a good biomarker to
 predict bacteremia in elderly patients with sepsis criteria admitted to
 the ED.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sbcc2fr25
title: Transgenerational inheritance of learned preferences for novel host plant odors in Bicyclus anynana butterflies

description: Many phytophagous insects have strong preferences for their host plants,
 which they recognize via odors, making it unclear how novel host
 preferences develop in the course of insect diversification. Insects may
 learn to prefer new host plants via exposure to their odors and pass this
 learned preference to their offspring. We tested this hypothesis by
 examining larval odor preferences before and after feeding them with
 leaves coated with control and novel odors and by examining odor
 preferences again in their offspring. Larvae of the parental generation
 developed a preference for two of these odors over their development.
 These odor preferences were also transmitted to the next generation.
 Offspring of butterflies fed on these new odors chose these odors more
 often than offspring of butterflies fed on control leaves. In addition,
 offspring of butterflies fed on banana odors had a significant naïve
 preference for the banana odors in contrast to the naïve preference for
 control leaves shown by individuals of the parental generation. Thus,
 butterflies can learn to prefer novel host plant odors via exposure to
 them during larval development and transmit these learned preferences to
 their offspring. This ability potentially facilitates shifts in host plant
 use over the course of insect diversification.
description: Please see the method section of the article for details on the
 dataset collection
DOI: 10.15468/dl.zgd6a9
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 278 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "BasisOfRecord is Human Observation",
 "Country is Colombia",
 "Geometry POLYGON((-78.10465 12.11064,-78.23988 7.17973,-78.30749 1.24868,-72.99283 -1.95278,-69.8827 -3.70846,-69.74748 0.27802,-67.65153 2.77855,-67.83917 6.45424,-73.04525 9.26695,-71.42258 12.45373,-78.10465 12.11064))",
 "HasGeospatialIssue is false",
 "TaxonKey is Podocarpus oleifolius"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 278 records from 39 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001948-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t4b8gthx9
title: Light affects parental provisioning behaviour in a cavity-nesting Passerine

description: Nocturnal bird species possess special adaptations to maximise visual
 efficiency under low light levels. However, some typically diurnal species
 also experience low-light environments. For example, cavity-nesting
 Passerines raise broods in dark cavities and search for food in
 light-abundant surroundings. It is not clear whether they possess special
 adaptations for low light vision or breed in cavities at the expense of
 impaired parental care. In this study, we tested whether light conditions
 affect the provisioning efficiency of great tits. We experimentally tested
 how the level of natural and artificially increased illumination inside
 nest boxes affects parental feeding duration, frequency and timing. We
 monitored 15-hours of provisioning activity of great tit parents when
 nestlings were day 7 post hatch. We used traditional “dark” nest boxes and
 “bright” nest boxes with increased illumination obtained by using
 semi-transparent plastic windows. The duration of single feedings were, on
 average, shorter in brightened nest boxes compared to dark ones. This
 difference tended to be higher early in the morning and in the evening,
 when the illumination in dark nest boxes was the lowest. Nest box type,
 however, did not influence feeding frequency or times of the onset and the
 end of feeding. Our findings provide new evidence for impaired efficiency
 of parental care due to lowered light conditions. Further research is
 needed to test whether prolonged feeding duration has negative effects on
 adult time budgets and nestling energy expenditures.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.uqcsz8
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 355 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "Country is Puerto Rico",
 "TaxonKey is Aedes aegypti"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 355 records from 11 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001947-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.v4zgpp
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 3007 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "DatasetKey" : [
 "is UCDavis - Western USA - Monarch Butterflies - 1892-2005"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 3007 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001951-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.