cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18385610
title: Experimental dataset from the PRIN PNRR 2022 HYDRA project: Block 1-ID project number: P2022PY3AC CUP: J53D23013850001

description:  HYDRA Project (PRIN PNRR 2022)- ID project number: P2022PY3AC-CUP: J53D23013850001 – Experimental Dataset Block 1 of 3

This dataset contains Block 1 of 3 experimental data collected within the HYDRA project (PRIN PNRR 2022). It provides a subset of the measurements generated as part of the experimental campaign of the project.

Description of the dataThe dataset includes measurements of soil water retention, PV-derived traits, biomass traits, hydraulics.  The data are provided in CSV UTF-8 format,

Files included:- `data_block1.csv`: main experimental measurements- `README.txt`, READMI.pdf

Relation to publicationsData from this block were used in the publication:  Mileto et al, Environmental and Experimental Botany 241 (2026) 106281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2025.106281.

The remaining blocks (Block 2 and Block 3) are part of the same project and will be published separately once the embargo period ends.

 Notes- Users should cite the HYDRA project and the associated publication when using the data.

 LicenseThis dataset is released under a CC-BY 4.0 International License.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18385611
title: Experimental dataset from the PRIN PNRR 2022 HYDRA project: Block 1-ID project number: P2022PY3AC CUP: J53D23013850001

description:  HYDRA Project (PRIN PNRR 2022)- ID project number: P2022PY3AC-CUP: J53D23013850001 – Experimental Dataset Block 1 of 3

This dataset contains Block 1 of 3 experimental data collected within the HYDRA project (PRIN PNRR 2022). It provides a subset of the measurements generated as part of the experimental campaign of the project.

Description of the dataThe dataset includes measurements of soil water retention, PV-derived traits, biomass traits, hydraulics.  The data are provided in CSV UTF-8 format,

Files included:- `data_block1.csv`: main experimental measurements- `README.txt`, READMI.pdf

Relation to publicationsData from this block were used in the publication:  Mileto et al, Environmental and Experimental Botany 241 (2026) 106281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2025.106281.

The remaining blocks (Block 2 and Block 3) are part of the same project and will be published separately once the embargo period ends.

 Notes- Users should cite the HYDRA project and the associated publication when using the data.

 LicenseThis dataset is released under a CC-BY 4.0 International License.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.45b5g
title: Data from: Effects of organism and substrate size on burial mechanics of English sole, Parophrys vetulus

description: Flatfishes use cyclic body undulations to force water into the sediment
 and fluidize substrate particles, displacing them into the water column.
 When water velocity decreases, suspended particles settle back onto the
 fish, hiding it from view. Burial may become more challenging as
 flatfishes grow because the area to be covered increases exponentially
 with the second power of length. In addition, particle size is not uniform
 in naturally occurring substrates, and larger particles require higher
 water velocities for fluidization. We quantified the effects of organism
 and particle-size scaling on burial behavior of English Sole, Parophrys
 vetulus. We recorded burial events from a size range of individuals (5-32
 cm TL), while maintaining constant substrate grain-size. Larger fish used
 lower cycle frequencies and took longer to bury, but overall burial
 performance was maintained (~100% coverage). To test the effect of
 particle size on burial performance, individuals of similar lengths
 (5.7-8.1 cm TL) were presented with different substrate sizes (0.125-0.710
 mm). Particle size did not affect cycle frequency or time to burial, but
 fish did not achieve 100% coverage with the largest particles because they
 could not fluidize this substrate. Taken together, these results suggest
 that both body size and substrate grain size can potentially limit the
 ability of flatfishes to bury: a very large fish (&gt;150 cm) may move
 too slowly to fluidize all but the smallest substrate particles and some
 particles are simply too large for smaller individuals to fluidize.
description: Scaling of fish
 lengthExperiment
 1.csvScaling of grain
 sizeExperiment
 2.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9g2p2
title: Data from: Predator-dependent functional response in wolves: from food limitation to surplus killing

description: The functional response of a predator describes the change in per capita
 kill rate to changes in prey density. This response can be influenced by
 predator densities, giving a predator-dependent functional response. In
 social carnivores which defend a territory, kill rates also depend on the
 individual energetic requirements of group members and their contribution
 to the kill rate. This study aims to provide empirical data for the
 functional response of wolves Canis lupus to the highly managed moose
 Alces alces population in Scandinavia. We explored prey and predator
 dependence, and how the functional response relates to the energetic
 requirements of wolf packs. Winter kill rates of GPS-collared wolves and
 densities of cervids were estimated for a total of 22 study periods in 15
 wolf territories. The adult wolves were identified as the individuals
 responsible for providing kills to the wolf pack, while pups could be
 described as inept hunters. The predator-dependent, asymptotic functional
 response models (i.e. Hassell-Varley type II and Crowley-Martin) performed
 best among a set of 23 competing linear, asymptotic and sigmoid models.
 Small wolf packs acquired &gt; 3 times as much moose biomass as
 required to sustain their field metabolic rate (FMR), even at relatively
 low moose abundances. Large packs (6 - 9 wolves) acquired less biomass
 than required in territories with low moose abundance. We suggest the
 surplus-killing by small packs is a result of an optimal foraging strategy
 to consume only the most nutritious parts of easy accessible prey while
 avoiding the risk of being detected by humans. Food limitation may have a
 stabilizing effect on pack size in wolves, as supported by the observed
 negative relationship between body weight of pups and pack size.
description: Killrate-dataThis file contains for each study period ("pack-winter") data associated to kill rate and prey availabilty. It is the basis for the functional response models in the article. Variables are described in the ReadMe file.weight_puppiesThis file contains data on the time of marking and weight of all wolf pups marked during winters 2000 - 2013 by the Scandinavian Wolf Research Project. Variables are described in the ReadMe file.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5d6sp
title: Data from: Evidence of sexual dimorphism in skeletal morphology of a gonochoric reef coral

description: In the emerald coral Porites panamensis, the rates of elongation and
 calcification of colonies are higher in males than in females, probably
 because of the higher energetic demands of the latter in order to cope
 with the development of the large planulae produced throughout the year.
 This differing energetic demand could also be reflected in the sexual
 dimorphism of the calyces, so, to test this hypothesis, 11 morphological
 traits of the corallite were assessed from 63 colonies that were collected
 in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico. Three traits showed
 statistical differences between sexes, enabling accurate distinction of
 males from females. Our results confirm for the first time the existence
 of external sexual dimorphism in a reef-building coral, opening the
 possibility that sex-related morphological differences may occur generally
 in gonochoric scleractinians. These findings can be very useful for the
 correct classification and characterization of recent and fossil records,
 helping to improve the historical and evolutive understanding of
 reef-building corals facing threats under environmental changes.
description: Data_Sex_dimFile with the colony´s meassurements from 10 random selected corallites, the directory contains the R code that was used to get the results.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9372d7j
title: Data from: Alien honeybees increase pollination risks for range-restricted plants

description: Aim Range-restricted species are of high conservation concern, and the way
 in which they interact with more widespread species has implications for
 their persistence. Here, we determine how the specialization of
 mutualistic interactions varies with respect to the geographic range size
 of plants and pollinators and assess how they respond to the introduction
 of the alien honeybee. We also compare network characteristics
 (connectance, specialization and nestedness) between an invaded low
 mountain and non-invaded high mountain network. Location St Katherine
 Protectorate, South Sinai, Egypt. Methods We quantified bee–plant
 interactions in 42 plots between April and July 2013 and created
 visitation networks for the low mountains (beehives present) and the high
 mountains (beehives absent). We then compared visitation network metrics
 between range-restricted, regionally distributed and widespread plants and
 pollinators and assessed topological differences between the low and high
 mountain networks. Results Range-restricted bees were involved in a
 significantly higher number of total interactions than regional and
 widespread native bees, but showed no evidence of increased
 generalization. In contrast, range-restricted plants were involved in
 fewer interactions and exhibited significantly higher specialization and a
 high dependency on range-restricted pollinators. The introduced honeybee
 acted as a super-generalist and was associated with an increase in
 network-level generalization and nestedness. Honeybees exhibited high
 levels of resource overlap with range-restricted bees and made few visits
 to range-restricted plant species. Main conclusions Range-restricted
 plants are more specialized in their interactions than range-restricted
 pollinators, suggesting that the forces shaping the structure of
 interaction network can vary between partners. Alien honeybees made few
 visits to range-restricted plants, but exhibited disproportionately high
 levels of floral competition with range-restricted bees. If high levels of
 competition lead to population declines then specialized range-restricted
 plants will be at higher risk of pollen deficits than more widespread
 species.
description: Low mountain visitation
 networkMatrix of plant-bee
 interactions recorded across 21 plots between April and July 2013 in the
 low mountains of St Katherine, South Sinai (1,300–1,550 m a.s.l.).
 Honeybee hives present.Low mountain
 matrix.csvHigh mountain visitation
 networkMatrix of plant-bee
 interactions recorded across 21 plots between April to July 2013 in the
 high mountains of St Katherine, South Sinai (1,800–1,850 m a.s.l).
 Honeybee hives absent.High mountain
 matrix.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.44jf2
title: Data from: Costs of crowding for the transmission potential in malaria parasites

description: The utility of using evolutionary and ecological frameworks to understand
 the dynamics of infectious diseases is gaining increasing recognition.
 However, integrating evolutionary ecology and infectious disease
 epidemiology is challenging because within-host dynamics can have
 counterintuitive consequences for between-host transmission, especially
 for vector-borne parasites. A major obstacle to linking within- and
 between-host processes is that the drivers of the relationships between
 the density, virulence, and fitness of parasites are poorly understood. By
 experimentally manipulating the intensity of rodent malaria (Plasmodium
 berghei) infections in Anopheles stephensi mosquitoes under different
 environmental conditions, we show that parasites experience substantial
 density-dependent fitness costs because crowding reduces both parasite
 proliferation and vector survival. We then use our data to predict how
 interactions between parasite density and vector environmental conditions
 shape within-vector processes and onward disease transmission. Our model
 predicts that density-dependent processes can have substantial and
 unexpected effects on the transmission potential of vector-borne disease,
 which should be considered in the development and evaluation of
 transmission-blocking interventions.
description: data for
 dryadDensity data from
 individual mosquito dissections. For further information please contact
 Laura Pollitt (laura.pollitt@googlemail.com).
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.51d4r
title: Data from: Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

description: Around 150 million years ago, eusocial termites evolved from within the
 cockroaches, 50 million years before eusocial Hymenoptera, such as bees
 and ants, appeared. Here, we report the 2-Gb genome of the German
 cockroach, Blattella germanica, and the 1.3-Gb genome of the drywood
 termite Cryptotermes secundus. We show evolutionary signatures of termite
 eusociality by comparing the genomes and transcriptomes of three termites
 and the cockroach against the background of 16 other eusocial and
 non-eusocial insects. Dramatic adaptive changes in genes underlying the
 production and perception of pheromones confirm the importance of chemical
 communication in the termites. These are accompanied by major changes in
 gene regulation and the molecular evolution of caste determination. Many
 of these results parallel molecular mechanisms of eusocial evolution in
 Hymenoptera. However, the specific solutions are remarkably different,
 thus revealing a striking case of convergence in one of the major
 evolutionary transitions in biological complexity.
description: Macrotermes natalensis
 manual gene annotationsManual gene annotation
 in gff3 format for the termite Macrotermes natalensis. Part of the
 manuscript "Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite
 eusociality."Mnat_manual_annotations.gff.gzZootermopsis nevadensis manual gene annotationsManual gene annotation in gff3 format for the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis. Part of the manuscript "Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality."Znev_manual_annotations.gff.gz
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.hv8qm00
title: Data from: Antibodies and coinfection drive variation in nematode burdens in wild mice

description: Coinfections with parasitic helminths and microparasites are highly common
 in nature and can lead to complex within-host interactions between
 parasite species which can cause negative health outcomes for humans, and
 domestic and wild animals. Many of these negative health effects worsen
 with increasing parasite burdens. However, even though many studies have
 identified several key factors that determine worm burdens across various
 host systems, less is known about how the immune response interacts with
 these factors and what the consequences are for the outcome of within-host
 parasite interactions. We investigated two interacting gastrointestinal
 parasites of wild wood mice, Heligmosomoides polygyrus (nematode) and
 Eimeria spp. (coccidia), in order to investigate how host demographic
 factors, coinfection and the host´s immune response affected parasite
 burdens and infection probability, and to determine what factors predict
 parasite-specific and total antibody levels. We found that antibody levels
 were the only factors that significantly influenced variation in both H.
 polygyrus burden and infection probability, and Eimeria spp. infection
 probability. Total faecal IgA was negatively associated with H. polygyrus
 burden and Eimeria spp. infection, whereas H. polygyrus-specific IgG1 was
 positively associated with H. polygyrus infection. We further found that
 the presence of Eimeria spp. had a negative effect on both faecal IgA and
 H. polygyrus-specific IgG1. Our results show that even in the context of
 natural demographic and immunological variation amongst individuals, we
 were able to decipher a role for the host humoral immune response in
 shaping the within-host interaction between H. polygyrus and Eimeria spp.
description: mouse_trapping_dataThis file contains all the data collected from trapped mice and was used in the analysisSession2_Completeparasites.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6j9j4
title: Data from: Testing determinants of the annual individual fitness: an overall mean mixture model for de-lifing data

description: 1. The de-lifing method (Coulson et al. 2006), though very promising for
 studying ecological and evolutionary changes, has been scarcely used to
 identify factors influential on fitness. 2. Through simulations
 representative of a variety of iteroparous species, we establish that a
 two-component normal mixture usually provides a much better representation
 of de-lifing data than the single normal distribution assumed in classical
 linear models. 3. To test determinants of the annual individual fitness,
 we propose the Overall Mean Mixture Model (O3M), a mixture model
 parameterized in terms of the overall mean of the mixture distribution. 4.
 We examine the gain in performance and accuracy when using the O3M over
 classical linear models and bootstrap methods on simulated finite normal
 mixture distributions for different regression shapes and variance
 structure, and apply it to a real data set to study how the annual
 individual fitness varies with age in Alpine marmots. 5. The O3M improves
 considerably the precision of the estimates and hence the power of the
 analysis. We discuss the adaptation of the O3M model to more complex
 distributions and advise on its use.
description: O3M_Marmot_DATAThis Rdata file provides the data used int the real data application on fitness variation with age in the Alpine marmot as presented in the publication "Testing determinants of the annual individual fitness: an overall mean mixture model for de-lifing data" by Pierre Dupont, Dominique Allainé, Aurélie Cohas & Roger Pradel.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7fn80
title: Data from: High temperature intensifies negative density dependence of fitness in red flour beetles

description: Competition for food, space, or other depletable resources has strong
 impacts on the fitness of organisms and can lead to a pattern known as
 negative density dependence, where fitness decreases as population density
 increases. Yet, many resources that have strong impacts on fitness are
 nondepletable (e.g., moisture or temperature). How do these nondepletable
 resources interact with depletable resources to modify negative density
 dependence? We tested the hypothesis that negative density dependence is
 modulated by temperature in red flour beetles and tested the prediction
 that the strength of negative density dependence should decrease as
 temperature decreases. We measured the number of eggs laid, offspring
 development time, and the number of offspring that reached maturity at
 three temperatures and two food treatment combinations as we
 simultaneously manipulated adult population density. We demonstrated that
 low temperatures weaken negative density dependence in the number of eggs
 laid; this pattern was most evident when food was abundant. Density had no
 effect on development time, but low temperatures increased development
 time. The percent of eggs that emerged as adults decreased with both
 density and temperature and increased with food. Temperature, an abiotic
 driver, can thus modulate density-dependent processes in ectotherms.
 Therefore, models of population growth for ectotherms should incorporate
 the effects of temperature.
description: Egg Thermal Reaction
 NormData used to describe
 the thermal reaction norm, or thermal performance curve, for egg laying by
 red flour beetles living in wheat flour. The number of eggs were counted
 after beetles were in the flour for four days.Density by
 FitnessData from an experiment
 examining the effects of food, temperature, and population density on
 fitness of red flour beetles. The number of eggs laid were counted after
 the beetles were in wheat flour for four days. Eggs were then placed back
 in flour and allowed to develop. The time for eggs to develop into adults
 was measured, and the number of eggs that emerged as adults were
 counted.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1gk0m
title: Data from: Water mold infection but not paternity induces selective filial cannibalism in a goby

description: Many animals heavily invest in parental care but still reject at least
 some of their offspring. Although seemingly paradoxical, selection can
 favor parents to neglect offspring of particularly low reproductive value,
 for example, because of small survival chances. We here assess whether
 filial cannibalism (FC), where parents routinely eat some of their own
 young, is selective in response to individual offspring reproductive
 value. We performed two independent laboratory experiments in the common
 goby (Pomatoschistus microps) to test whether caring fathers
 preferentially cannibalize eggs of a given infection history and
 paternity. While males did not discriminate kin from nonkin eggs, they
 consumed significantly more eggs previously exposed to water mold compared
 to uninfected eggs. Our findings clearly show that parents differentiate
 between eggs based on differences in egg condition, and thus complement
 the prevailing view that FC arises for energetic reasons. By preventing
 the spread of microbial infections, the removal of molded eggs can
 constitute an important component of parental care and may represent a key
 driver of selective FC in a wide array of parental fish.
description: Vallon_etal-Experiment1Original data collected in experiment 1. Self-explanatory table headers are included. See publication for detailed description of variables. Contact authors for further questions.Vallon_etal-Experiment2Original data collected in experiment 2. Self-explanatory table headers are included. See publication for detailed description of variables. Contact authors for further questions.