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DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n0c67
title: Data from: Spatial selection and local adaptation jointly shape life-history evolution during range expansion

description: In the context of climate change and species invasions, range shifts
 increasingly gain attention because the rates at which they occur in the
 Anthropocene induce rapid changes in biological assemblages. During range
 shifts, species experience multiple selection pressures. For poleward
 expansions in particular, it is difficult to interpret observed
 evolutionary dynamics because of the joint action of evolutionary
 processes related to spatial selection and to adaptation toward local
 climatic conditions. To disentangle the effects of these two processes, we
 integrated stochastic modeling and data from a common garden experiment,
 using the spider mite Tetranychus urticae as a model species. By linking
 the empirical data with those derived form a highly parameterized
 individual-based model, we infer that both spatial selection and local
 adaptation contributed to the observed latitudinal life-history
 divergence. Spatial selection best described variation in dispersal
 behavior, while variation in development was best explained by adaptation
 to the local climate. Divergence in life-history traits in species
 shifting poleward could consequently be jointly determined by contemporary
 evolutionary dynamics resulting from adaptation to the environmental
 gradient and from spatial selection. The integration of modeling with
 common garden experiments provides a powerful tool to study the
 contribution of these evolutionary processes on life-history evolution
 during range expansion.
description: Evolution during range
 expansion_dataSheetsThis datafile containes
 all the life-history data that were used in Van Petegem et al._Evolution
 during range expansion. They were assessed for two-spotted spider mites
 collected in the field in 2011-2012 (Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and
 Denmark) -after at least two generations of common garden
 breeding.Evolution during range
 expansion_scriptsThis file contains the
 scripts that were used for the analyses of the life-history data in Van
 Petegem et al._Evolution during range expansion. The text in this file can
 be copy-pasted into SAS. You then only need to copy-paste the data
 (available in the data file in Dryad) into the indicated
 place.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7n38s11
title: Data from: Web building and silk properties functionally covary among species of wolf spider

description: While phylogenetic studies have shown covariation between the properties
 of spider major ampullate (MA) silk and web building, both spider webs and
 silks are highly plastic so we cannot be sure whether these traits
 functionally co-vary or just vary across environments that the spiders
 occupy. Since MaSp2-like proteins provide MA silk with greater
 extensibility, their presence is considered necessary for spider webs to
 effectively capture prey. Wolf spiders (Lycosidae) are predominantly
 non-web building, but a select few species build webs. We accordingly
 collected MA silk from two web building and six non-web building species
 found in semi-rural ecosystems in Uruguay to test whether the presence of
 MaSp2-like proteins (indicated by amino acid composition), silk mechanical
 properties, and silk nanostructures, were associated with web building
 across the group. The web building and non-web building species were from
 disparate subfamilies so we estimated a genetic phylogeny to perform
 appropriate comparisons. For all of the properties measured we found
 differences between web building and non-web building species. A
 phylogenetic regression model confirmed that web building and not
 phylogenetic inertia influences silk properties. Our study definitively
 showed an ecological influence over spider silk properties. We expect that
 the presence of the MaSp2-like proteins and the subsequent nanostructures
 improves the mechanical performance of silks within the webs. Our study
 furthers our understanding of spider web and silk co-evolution and the
 ecological implications of spider silk properties.
description: Wolf spider compiled
 dataCompiled species,
 mechanical and XRD dataLacava_wolf spider compiled
 data.xlsxLacava_wolf spider
 original XRD outputsWide angle X-ray
 diffraction outputs for all speciesLacava_wolf spider silk
 mechanics dataOriginal silk mechanics
 data for all speciesLacava_wolf spider
 stress-strain curve original dataMechanical data used to
 generate stress-strain curves
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5cp70
title: Data from: A novel report of hatching plasticity in the phylum Echinodermata

description: Hatching plasticity occurs in response to a wide range of stimuli across
 many animal taxa, including annelids, arthropods, mollusks, and chordates.
 Despite the prominence of echinoderms in developmental biology and more
 than 100 years of detailed examination of their development under a
 variety of conditions, environmentally cued hatching plasticity has never
 been reported in the phylum Echinodermata. Here we report plasticity in
 the timing and stage of hatching of embryos of the sand dollar
 Echinarachnius parma in response to reductions in salinity. Embryos of E.
 parma increased their time to hatching more than twofold in response to
 ecologically relevant salinity reductions, while maintaining an otherwise
 normal developmental schedule. Embryos that experienced the greatest delay
 in hatching time emerged from the fertilization envelope as four-arm
 pluteus larvae rather than hatching as blastulae or early gastrulae.
 Salinity manipulations across multiple male-female pairs indicated high
 variability in hatching time both within and among clutches, suggesting
 significant intraspecific variation in developmental responses to
 salinity.
description: FINAL-AMNAT-EXCELSpreadsheet of Echinarachnius parma hatching data collected in the laboratory for three trials under various salinity and temperature conditions.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p17r6
title: Data from: ‘Same procedure as last year?' Repeatedly tracked swifts show individual consistency in migration pattern in successive years

description: Individual migration pattern during non-breeding season is still a black
 box in many migratory birds. However, knowledge on both individual level
 and population level in migration and overwintering is fundamental to
 understand the life cycle of these birds and the constraints affecting
 them. We showed in a highly aerial migrant, the common swift Apus apus,
 that repeatedly tracked birds breeding at one site in Germany used the
 same individual-specific migration routes and wintering areas in
 subsequent years. In contrast, different individuals from the same
 breeding colony showed diverse movement patterns during non-breeding
 season suggesting that several suitable areas for overwintering coexist.
 We found lower variation in timing of autumn and spring migration within
 than between individuals. Our findings provide first indication of
 individual consistency but between-individual variation in migration
 pattern in a small non-passerine bird revealed by geolocators. This
 supports that swifts have diverse but individual-specific ‘step-by-step’
 migration patterns revealing high flexibility through individual
 strategies.
description: PERMANOVA_data_within-analysisThis file includes geolocation data of repeatedly tracked individuals for permutational multivariate analysis of variance.PERMANOVA_data_between-analysisThis file includes geolocation data of singly tracked individuals for permutational multivariate analysis of variance.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.86r20
title: Data from: Molecular signatures of lineage-specific adaptive evolution in a unique sea basin: the example of an anadromous goby Leucopsarion petersii

description: Climate changes on various time scales often shape genetic novelty and
 adaptive variation in many biotas. We explored molecular signatures of
 directional selection in populations of the ice goby Leucopsarion petersii
 inhabiting a unique sea basin, the Sea of Japan, where a wide variety of
 environments existed in the Pleistocene in relation to shifts in sea level
 by repeated glaciations. This species consisted of two historically
 allopatric lineages, the Japan Sea (JS) and Pacific Ocean (PO) lineages,
 and these have lived under contrasting marine environments that are
 expected to have imposed different selection regimes caused by past
 climatic and current oceanographic factors. We applied a limited
 genome-scan approach using seven candidate genes for phenotypic
 differences between two lineages in combination with 100 anonymous
 microsatellite loci. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) gene, which is an important
 regulator of food intake and potent orexigenic agent, and three anonymous
 microsatellites were identified as robust outliers, that is, candidate
 loci potentially under directional selection, by multiple divergence- and
 diversity-based outlier tests in comparisons focused on multiple
 populations of the JS vs. PO lineages. For these outlier loci, populations
 of the JS lineage had putative signals of selective sweeps. Additionally,
 real-time quantitative PCR analysis using fish reared in a common
 environment showed a higher expression level for NPY gene in the JS
 lineage. Thus, this study succeeded in identifying candidate genomic
 regions under selection across populations of the JS lineage and provided
 evidence for lineage-specific adaptive evolution in this unique sea basin.
description: Kokita et al 2013
 MECGenotyping data of
 anonymous microsatellite and candidate gene markers (107 loci). The data
 set consists of samples from four populations (AM, FK, SZ and WK). See
 Kokita et al. (2013) for further details. The data file is in MSA format
 [Dieringer D, Schlotterer C (2003) Microsatellite Analyser (msa): a
 platform independent analysis tool for large microsatellite data sets.
 Molecular Ecology Notes, 3, 167–169].
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.18r5f
title: Data from: Spatial and spatiotemporal variation in metapopulation structure affects population dynamics in a passively dispersing arthropod

description: 1. The spatial and temporal variation in the availability of suitable
 habitat within metapopulations determines colonization–extinction events,
 regulates local population sizes and eventually affects local population
 and metapopulation stability. Insights into the impact of such a
 spatiotemporal variation on the local population and metapopulation
 dynamics are principally derived from classical metapopulation theory and
 have not been experimentally validated. 2. By manipulating spatial
 structure in artificial metapopulations of the spider mite Tetranychus
 urticae, we test to which degree spatial (mainland–island metapopulations)
 and spatiotemporal variation (classical metapopulations) in habitat
 availability affects the dynamics of the metapopulations relative to
 systems where habitat is constantly available in time and space (patchy
 metapopulations). 3. Our experiment demonstrates that (i) spatial
 variation in habitat availability decreases variance in metapopulation
 size and decreases density-dependent dispersal at the metapopulation
 level, while (ii) spatiotemporal variation in habitat availability
 increases patch extinction rates, decreases local population and
 metapopulation sizes and decreases density dependence in population growth
 rates. We found dispersal to be negatively density dependent and overall
 low in the spatial variable mainland–island metapopulation. 4. This
 demographic variation subsequently impacts local and regional population
 dynamics and determines patterns of metapopulation stability. Both local
 and metapopulation-level variabilities are minimized in mainland–island
 metapopulations relative to classical and patchy ones.
description: Metadata population
 dynamics in artificial metapopulationsThe file contains raw
 data used in the accompanied manuscript. One sheet contains all
 demographic data (population size, per stage) during the course of the
 experiment. A second sheet contains dispersal data (counts on
 quadrants)Metadata Journal of Animal
 Ecology.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fv6fn
title: Data from: Testing sea-level rise impacts in tidal wetlands: a novel in situ approach

description: Predictions of coastal wetland loss depend on reliable estimations of
 sea-level rise (SLR) and biological feedbacks to geomorphology, yet it is
 difficult to manipulate SLR to generate empirical data of impacts on
 wetland processes. Typically, data have been generated through small-scale
 mesocosm experiments, an approach that may not fully capture biological
 responses to SLR. Using passive and active weirs, we manipulated
 inundation depths and times in situ and at larger spatial scales than
 possible in mesocosms. In June 2013, we simulated three flooding scenarios
 (low, intermediate and high) using passive weirs designed to increase mean
 low water (MLW) by approximately 8–9, 12–13 and 16–18 cm, respectively,
 relative to controls. In March 2014, we also conducted a proof-of-concept
 exercise to demonstrate that active weirs equipped with a pump can
 increase both MLW and mean high water (MHW), thereby achieving changes in
 both inundation depth and inundation time. When compared to controls for
 the three flooding scenarios, passive weirs increased MLW in the low marsh
 by 9.1 ± 0.8, 11.8 ± 1.1 and 15.65 ± 0.8 cm, respectively, and in the high
 marsh by 6.3 ± 3.0, 17.0 ± 4.6 and 8.3 ± 2.5 cm, respectively. Passive
 weirs increased inundation time in low marsh by 0.4 ± 0.0 hd−1 and 2.9 ±
 0.0 hd−1 to 24 hd−1 in both weirs for low and intermediate flooding,
 respectively, but not for high flooding where the control and weirs were
 both inundated 24 hd−1. At greater elevations, however, passive weirs
 increased inundation time in high marsh by 0.9 ± 2.2, 5.1 ± 4.1 and 4.0 ±
 0 hd−1, respectively. Weirs slowed drainage rates by 5.6 ± 1.4, 3.8 ± 1.4
 and 6.1 ± 0.1 cmh−1, respectively. The active weir increased MLW by 25.4
 cm, MHW by 10.5 cm and inundation time by 10.7 hd−1 and slowed the
 drainage rate by 9.6 cmh−1. Weirs can be used to increase inundation
 depths and times to study SLR impacts on tidal wetlands, and are
 advantageous because they minimize disturbance; allow for larger-scale
 studies within tidal wetlands; and can be maintained at little cost and
 effort, thereby providing more robust estimates of SLR impacts on tidal
 wetland processes.
description: Weeks Bay Water Level
 DataThe data file includes
 water levels (m) collected in the field from three restored marshes at
 Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Baldwin County, Alabama,
 USA. Data were collected for low, intermediate, and high flooding
 scenarios using water level recorders (Levelogger & Barologger Model
 3001 Edge F15/M5, Solinist Canada Ltd., Ontario, Canada) from which data
 were exported to MS Excel. A total of 10 water level recorders were
 deployed, including a control and two weirs for all three flooding
 scenarios and a weir control from the high flooding scenario. Water levels
 are relative to the soil surface (0m); NAVD88 elevations (m) for the
 position of the water level recorders are provided when available (NA =
 Not Available).
DOI: 10.25919/wdwv-pe60
title: Long-term project observations for project P456 semester 2025OCTS_15

description: The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project has three primary goals: (a) detection of gravitational waves from astronomical sources, (b) establishment of a pulsar timescale, and (c) improvement of our understanding of Solar-system dynamics. We are now in an exciting regime where a signal detected in our (and other data sets) has the form expected for a gravitational wave background. We, along with the international community, are now working hard to either confirm or deny this result, and to determine the astrophysical origin of this signal. With this proposal, we aim to maintain our pre-eminent position in the field. This is a continuing proposal for which observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) will continue to improve bounds on ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves until they are detected with confidence. Continued Parkes observations will remain valuable at least until the first stage of the SKA is able to improve on our sensitivity and observing cadence. Even after the gravitational wave background is detected, continued observations will resolve the background origin and individual sources will be identified; advancing the nascent field of gravitational wave astronomy.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.93d6c
title: Data from: Heat tolerance in Drosophila subobscura along a latitudinal gradient: contrasting patterns between plastic and genetic responses

description: Susceptibility to global warming relies on how thermal tolerances respond
 to increasing temperatures through plasticity or evolution. Climatic
 adaptation can be assessed examining the geographic variation in
 thermal-related traits. We studied latitudinal patterns in heat tolerance
 in Drosophila subobscura reared at two temperatures. We used four static
 stressful temperatures to estimate the thermal death time curves (TDT),
 and two ramping assays with fast and slow heating rates. TDT curves allow
 estimating the critical thermal maximum CTmax, by extrapolating to the
 temperature that would knockdown the flies almost ‘instantaneously’, and
 the thermal sensitivity to increasing stressful temperatures. We found a
 positive latitudinal cline for CTmax, but no clinal pattern for knockdown
 temperatures estimated from the ramping assays. Although high-latitude
 populations were more tolerant to an acute heat stress, they were also
 more sensitive to prolonged exposure to less stressful temperatures,
 supporting a trade-off between acute and chronic heat tolerances.
 Conversely, developmental plasticity did not affect CTmax but increased
 the tolerance to chronic heat exposition. The patterns observed from the
 TDT curves help to understand why the relationship between heat tolerance
 and latitude depends on the methodology used and, therefore, these curves
 provide a more complete and reliable measurement of heat tolerance.
description: Dsubobscura Heat
 tolerance from Chilean populationsThe dataset contains
 heat tolerance measured in static and dynamic assays.Dsubobscura_Heat_tolerance.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.612
title: Data from: Phylogenetic utility of different types of molecular data used to infer evolutionary relationships among stalk-eyed flies (Diopsidae)

description: A phylogenetic hypothesis of relationships among 33 species of stalk-eyed
 flies was generated from a molecular data set comprised of three
 mitochondrial and three nuclear gene regions. A combined analysis of all
 the data equally weighted produced a single most parsimonious cladogram
 with relatively strong support at the majority of nodes. The phylogenetic
 utility of different classes of molecular data was also examined. In
 particular, using a number of different measures of utility in both a
 combined and separate analysis framework, we focus on the distinction
 between mitochondrial and nuclear genes, and faster-evolving characters
 and slower-evolving characters. For the first comparison, by nearly any
 measure of utility, the nuclear genes are substantially more informative
 for resolving diopsid relationships than are the mitochondrial genes. The
 nuclear genes exhibit less homoplasy, are less incongruent both with one
 another and with the combined data, and contribute more support to the
 combined analysis topology than the mitochondrial genes. Results from the
 second comparison, however, provide little evidence of a clear difference
 in utility. Despite indications of rapid divergence and saturation,
 faster-evolving characters in both the nuclear and mitochondrial data sets
 still provide substantial phylogenetic signal. In general, inclusion of
 the more rapidly evolving data consistently improves the congruence among
 partitions.
description: Baker et al Data
 SetBaker_DeSalle.txt
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4qs8c
title: Data from: Effects of spatial structure of population size on the population dynamics of barnacles across their elevational range

description: 1. Explanations for why population dynamics vary across the range of a
 species reflect two contrasting hypotheses: (1) temporal variability of
 populations is larger in the centre of the range compared to the margins
 because overcompensatory density dependence destabilizes population
 dynamics, and (2) population variability is larger near the margins, where
 populations are more susceptible to environmental fluctuations. In both of
 these hypotheses, positions within the range are assumed to affect
 population variability. 2. In contrast, the fact that population
 variability is often related to mean population size implies that the
 spatial structure of the population size within the range of a species may
 also be a useful predictor of the spatial variation of temporal
 variability of population size over the range of the species. 3. To
 explore how population temporal variability varies spatially and the
 underlying processes responsible for the spatial variation, we focused on
 the intertidal barnacle Chthamalus dalli and examined differences in its
 population dynamics along the tidal levels it inhabits. Changes in
 coverage of barnacle populations were monitored for 10.5 years at 25 plots
 spanning the elevational range of this species. Data were analysed by
 fitting a population dynamics model to estimate the effects of
 density-dependent and density-independent processes on population growth.
 We also examined the temporal mean-variance relationship of population
 size with parameters estimated from the population dynamics model. 4. We
 found that the relative variability of populations tended to increase from
 the centre of the elevational range towards the margins because of an
 increase in the magnitude of stochastic fluctuations of growth rates.
 Thus, our results supported hypothesis (2). We also found that spatial
 variations in temporal population variability were well characterized by
 Taylor’s power law, the relative population variability being inversely
 related to the mean population size. 5. Results suggest that understanding
 the population dynamics of a species over its range may be facilitated by
 taking the spatial structure of population size into account as well as by
 considering changes in population processes as a function of position
 within the range of the species.
description: Population time series
 data of intertidal barnacles (Chthamalus dalli) - text data
 tablePopulation coverage of
 intertidal barnacle (Chthamalus dalli) populations were monitored over the
 elevational range of this species for 10.5 years at 25 plots in 5 shores
 locating at Eastern Hokkaido, Japan.d.csvPopulation time series data of intertidal barnacles (Chthamalus dalli) - dumped R data filePopulation coverage of intertidal barnacle (Chthamalus dalli) populations were monitored over the elevational range of this species for 10.5 years at 25 plots in 5 shores locating at Eastern Hokkaido, Japan.d.Rdmped