cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rv12r
title: Data from: Similar preferences for ornamentation in opposite- and same-sex choice experiments

description: Selection due to social interactions comprises competition over matings
 (sexual selection stricto sensu) plus other forms of social competition
 and cooperation. Sexual selection explains sex differences in
 ornamentation and in various other phenotypes, but does not easily explain
 cases where those phenotypes are similar in males and females.
 Understanding such similarities requires knowing how phenotypes influence
 non-sexual social interactions as well, which can be very important in
 gregarious animals, but whose role for phenotypic evolution has been
 overlooked. For example, ‘mate choice’ experiments often found preferences
 for ornamentation, but have not assessed whether those are strictly sexual
 or are general social preferences. Using choice experiments with a
 gregarious and mutually-ornamented finch, the common waxbill (Estrilda
 astrild), we show that preferences for ornamentation in the opposite-sex
 also extend to same-sex interactions. Waxbills discriminated between
 opposite- and to same-sex individuals, but most preferences for colour
 traits were similar when interacting with either sex. Similar preferences
 in sexual and non-sexual associations may be widespread in nature, either
 as social adaptations or as by-product of mate preferences. In either
 case, such preferences may set the stage for the evolution of mutual
 ornamentation and of various other similarities between the sexes.
description: Data from Cardoso et al.
 J Evol BiolPhenotypic and
 behavioural data from experiments.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6rj7r
title: Data from: Gene flow of a forest-dependent bird across a fragmented landscape

description: Habitat loss and fragmentation can affect the persistence of populations
 by reducing connectivity and restricting the ability of individuals to
 disperse across landscapes. Dispersal corridors promote population
 connectivity and therefore play important roles in maintaining gene flow
 in natural populations inhabiting fragmented landscapes. In the prairies,
 forests are restricted to riparian areas along river systems which act as
 important dispersal corridors for forest dependent species across large
 expanses of unsuitable grassland habitat. However, natural and
 anthropogenic barriers within riparian systems have fragmented these
 forested habitats. In this study, we used microsatellite markers to assess
 the fine-scale genetic structure of a forest-dependent species, the
 black-capped chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), along 10 different river
 systems in Southern Alberta. Using a landscape genetic approach, landscape
 features (e.g., land cover) were found to have a significant effect on
 patterns of genetic differentiation. Populations are genetically
 structured as a result of natural breaks in continuous habitat at small
 spatial scales, but the artificial barriers we tested do not appear to
 restrict gene flow. Dispersal between rivers is impeded by grasslands,
 evident from isolation of nearby populations (~ 50 km apart), but also
 within river systems by large treeless canyons (&gt;100 km).
 Significant population genetic differentiation within some rivers
 corresponded with zones of different cottonwood (riparian poplar) tree
 species and their hybrids. This study illustrates the importance of
 considering the impacts of habitat fragmentation at small spatial scales
 as well as other ecological processes to gain a better understanding of
 how organisms respond to their environmental connectivity. Here, even in a
 common and widespread songbird with high dispersal potential, small breaks
 in continuous habitats strongly influenced the spatial patterns of genetic
 variation.
description: GenotypeData_DRYAD_Adams&Burg2015Microsatellite genotypes from black-capped chickadees
DOI: 10.57760/sciencedb.35934
title: Public processed and Lidar data
title: Public processed and Lidar data

description: Please find the compressed data file attached. Lidar data: Columns 1 to 5 contain the zero-order moment of the spectrum (integrated spectral intensity), the second-order moment of the spectrum (variance spectral width), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), radial wind speed, and height, respectively.
description: Please find the compressed data file attached. Lidar data: Columns 1 to 5 contain the zero-order moment of the spectrum (integrated spectral intensity), the second-order moment of the spectrum (variance spectral width), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), radial wind speed, and height, respectively.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.50fj0
title: Data from: Effects of maternal investment, temperament, and cognition on guide dog success

description: A continuing debate in studies of social development in both humans and
 other animals is the extent to which early life experiences affect adult
 behavior. Also unclear are the relative contributions of cognitive skills
 (“intelligence”) and temperament for successful outcomes. Guide dogs are
 particularly suited to research on these questions. To succeed as a guide
 dog, individuals must accomplish complex navigation and decision making
 without succumbing to distractions and unforeseen obstacles. Faced with
 these rigorous demands, only ∼70% of dogs that enter training ultimately
 achieve success. What predicts success as a guide dog? To address these
 questions, we followed 98 puppies from birth to adulthood. We found that
 high levels of overall maternal behavior were linked with a higher
 likelihood of program failure. Furthermore, mothers whose nursing style
 required greater effort by puppies were more likely to produce successful
 offspring, whereas mothers whose nursing style required less effort were
 more likely to produce offspring that failed. In young adults, an
 inability to solve a multistep task quickly, compounded with high levels
 of perseveration during the task, was associated with failure. Young
 adults that were released from the program also appeared more anxious, as
 indicated by a short latency to vocalize when faced with a novel object
 task. Our results suggest that both maternal nursing behavior and
 individual traits of cognition and temperament are associated with guide
 dog success.
description: Behavioral guide dog
 dataThis is a data set for a
 study of the association of maternal style and young adult temperament and
 cognition with program outcome in a population of guide
 dogs.Bray
 et al Raw Data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3v0q8
title: Data from: Reward context determines risky choice in pigeons and humans

description: Whereas humans are risk averse for monetary gains, other animals can be
 risk seeking for food rewards, especially when faced with variable delays
 or under significant deprivation. A key difference between these findings
 is that humans are often explicitly told about the risky options, whereas
 non-human animals must learn about them from their own experience. We
 tested pigeons (Columba livia) and humans in formally identical choice
 tasks where all outcomes were learned from experience. Both species were
 more risk seeking for larger rewards than for smaller ones. The data
 suggest that the largest and smallest rewards experienced are overweighted
 in risky choice. This observed bias towards extreme outcomes represents a
 key step towards a consilience of these two disparate literatures,
 identifying common features that drive risky choice across phyla.
description: Data from: Reward
 context determines risky choice in pigeons and humansThe data are compressed
 in a .zip format containing two comma separated (.csv) files. One file
 contains data from the human subjects and the other contains the data from
 the pigeon subjects. The files are labelled "human_data.csv" and
 "pigeon_data.csv", respectively, and are both in a spreadsheet
 format. The human subject data was sampled from University of Alberta
 introductory psychology students participating for course credit and a
 cash bonus. All human data was presented and scored using E-Prime 2.0
 Professional Software. The pigeon subject data was scored by hand using
 closed circuit recorded video. The column labelled "Notes"
 corresponds to additional information provided by the various volunteer
 research assistants who participated in the running and scoring of the
 pigeon subjects.Ludvig_Madan_Pisklak_Spetch_
 data.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fp505
title: Data from: The influence of weather conditions during gestation on life histories in a wild Arctic ungulate

description: The internal predictive adaptive response (internal PAR) hypothesis
 predicts that individuals born in poor conditions should start to
 reproduce earlier if they are likely to have reduced performance in later
 life. However, whether this is the case remains unexplored in wild
 populations. Here, we use longitudinal data from a long-term study of
 Svalbard reindeer to examine age-related changes in adult female
 life-history responses to environmental conditions experienced in utero as
 indexed by rain-on-snow (ROSutero). We show that females experiencing high
 ROSutero had reduced reproductive success only from 7 years of age,
 independent of early reproduction. These individuals were able to maintain
 the same annual reproductive success between 2 and 6 years as
 phenotypically superior conspecifics that experienced low ROSutero. Young
 females born after high ROSutero engage in reproductive events at lower
 body mass (about 2.5 kg less) than those born after low ROSutero. The mean
 fitness of females that experienced poor environmental conditions in early
 life was comparable with that of females exposed to good environmental
 conditions in early life. These results are consistent with the idea of
 internal PAR and suggest that the life-history responses to early-life
 conditions can buffer the delayed effects of weather on population
 dynamics.
description: Data supporting the
 paperData1 is a dataframe
 with 7 variables: 1) id = female identity, 2) RS = annual reproductive
 success of females aged 7 years and over (0 = failed, 1 = success), 3)
 year, 4) ROSutero = rain on-snow events experienced in utero (0 = high, 1
 = low), 5) alo = age at last observation, 6) ROScurrent = rain-on-snow
 experienced in current year, 7) age. Data2 is a dataframe with 7
 variables: 1) id = female identity, 2) RS = annual reproductive success of
 females aged 2-6 years (0 = failed, 1 = success), 3) year, 4) ROSutero =
 rain on-snow events experienced in utero (0 = high, 1 = low), 5) alo = age
 at last observation between 2 and 6 years, 6) ROScurrent = rain-on-snow
 experienced in current year, 7) age . Data3 is a dataframe with 5
 variables: 1) id = female identity, 2) year, 3) preg = annual pregnancy
 probability of females aged 2-6 years, 4) ROSutero = rain on-snow events
 experienced in utero (0 = high, 1 = low), 5) BM = body mass. All
 continuous variables have been centered and divided by two standard
 deviations.data.zip
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15833541
title: Measurement data for "Experimental study of prediction model of insertion loss of buildings for elevated noise source"

description: This is a dataset of insertion loss of buildings from scale model experiment for publication: Q. Wang, K. Anai, H. Yano, S. Sakamoto, "Experimental study of prediction model of insertion loss of buildings for elevated noise source", Acoustical Science and Technology, e25.73 (2026), doi: 10.1250/ast.e25.73.

This dataset contains measurement data of insertion loss of buildings (IL) from a scale model experiment performed in a hemi-anechoic chamber. The insertion loss of buildings characterizes the noise attenuation level caused by buildings compared to the case without buildings, which refers to the case of propagation in hemi-free field. The experimental setup is described in Sect. 2 of the publication, and the procedures for calculating IL is described in Sect. 3.1 of the publication.

The dataset is intepreted in the following manner. First, each .csv file contains IL data regarding a specific receiver microphone position from one of the five building patterns [(a-e)] and one specific height of buildings $H$ and a specific height of noise source $h_\mathrm{s}$ (as indicated in the file name). Each file contains an numeric array of 6 rows and 85 columns. Each of the 6 rows are the data for one type of single-point IL $\mathit{\Delta}L_{\mathrm{B,P}}$. Rows 1-5 contain single-point IL at one octave frequency band from 125 Hz to 2 kHz (data at 2 kHz only contains data within 2/3 octave frequency band due to limited frequency range of measurement data), $\mathit{\Delta}L_{\mathrm{B,P},f}$. Row 6 contains overall levels of single-point IL regarding the road traffic noise (RTN), $\mathit{\Delta}L_{\mathrm{B,P,RTN}}$. The 85 columns of data are the single-point IL at different $\mathrm{X}$ positions of the noise source along the 100 meter simulated road. Note that, some cells are intentionally left empty as they correspond to points with low signal-to-noise ratio regarding the measurement conditions, so they are discarded both in the dataset here and the analyses in the main text.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15833542
title: Measurement data for "Experimental study of prediction model of insertion loss of buildings for elevated noise source"

description: This is a dataset of insertion loss of buildings from scale model experiment for publication: Q. Wang, K. Anai, H. Yano, S. Sakamoto, "Experimental study of prediction model of insertion loss of buildings for elevated noise source", Acoustical Science and Technology, e25.73 (2026), doi: 10.1250/ast.e25.73.

This dataset contains measurement data of insertion loss of buildings (IL) from a scale model experiment performed in a hemi-anechoic chamber. The insertion loss of buildings characterizes the noise attenuation level caused by buildings compared to the case without buildings, which refers to the case of propagation in hemi-free field. The experimental setup is described in Sect. 2 of the publication, and the procedures for calculating IL is described in Sect. 3.1 of the publication.

The dataset is intepreted in the following manner. First, each .csv file contains IL data regarding a specific receiver microphone position from one of the five building patterns [(a-e)] and one specific height of buildings $H$ and a specific height of noise source $h_\mathrm{s}$ (as indicated in the file name). Each file contains an numeric array of 6 rows and 85 columns. Each of the 6 rows are the data for one type of single-point IL $\mathit{\Delta}L_{\mathrm{B,P}}$. Rows 1-5 contain single-point IL at one octave frequency band from 125 Hz to 2 kHz (data at 2 kHz only contains data within 2/3 octave frequency band due to limited frequency range of measurement data), $\mathit{\Delta}L_{\mathrm{B,P},f}$. Row 6 contains overall levels of single-point IL regarding the road traffic noise (RTN), $\mathit{\Delta}L_{\mathrm{B,P,RTN}}$. The 85 columns of data are the single-point IL at different $\mathrm{X}$ positions of the noise source along the 100 meter simulated road. Note that, some cells are intentionally left empty as they correspond to points with low signal-to-noise ratio regarding the measurement conditions, so they are discarded both in the dataset here and the analyses in the main text.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bs2vt87
title: Data from: Impacts of an invasive ant species on roosting behaviour of an island endemic flying-fox

description: Introduced species can cause major disruptions to ecosystems, particularly
 on islands. On Christmas Island, the invasive yellow crazy ant
 (Anoplolepis gracilipes) has detrimental impacts on many animals ranging
 from the iconic red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) to the Christmas Island
 Thrush (Turdus poliocephalus erythropleurus). However, the full extent of
 its effects on the island’s fauna is not yet known. In this study, we
 investigated the impact of the yellow crazy ants on the island’s last
 native mammal: the Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus natalis). This
 species has been described as a keystone species, but has recently
 experienced substantial population decline to the extent that it is now
 listed as critically endangered. We examined the impacts of the yellow
 crazy ants on the roosting behaviour of the Christmas Island flying-fox,
 and on its local and island-wide distribution patterns. We showed that the
 crazy ants increased behaviours in the flying-foxes that were associated
 with avoidance of noxious stimuli, and decreased behaviours associated
 with resting. Roost tree selection and roost site location were not
 related to variation in the abundance of crazy ants on the island. Our
 results indicate that the crazy ants interfere with the activity budgets
 of the flying-foxes. However, the flying-foxes failed to relocate to
 ant-free roost trees or roost sites when confronted with the noxious ant,
 suggesting that the flying-foxes are either not sufficiently disturbed to
 override strong cultural attachment to roosts, or, are behaving
 maladaptively due to ecological naïveté.
description: Behavioural observations
 of Christmas Island flying-foxesThis data was collected
 in the field. Individuals were observed for 30 minutes, and behaviour was
 recorded every minute. Column description: 'nr' refers to the
 observed individual. 'Tree' is the roost tree where the focal
 individual was roosting. 'locality' refers to the roost site
 where the focal individual was roosting. There were 5 different roost
 sotes. 'Weather' has three different categories: R=rainy,
 S=sunny, C=cloudy. 'TreeSpecies' is the species of tree the
 focal individual was roosting in. 'foliage' has three
 categories: O=open, H=halfopen, D=dense. 'Height' refers to the
 roost height of the focal individual. 'Ants' refers to the
 number of ants in the tree of the focal individual.
 'group.alone' refers to whether the focal individual was
 roosting alone (a), or in a group g), and Group.Size refers to the number
 of individuals in the group. The last column is 'Behaviour'
 which refers to the observed behaviourData_publish.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.101kt28
title: Data from: Evolutionary divergence in competitive mating success through female mating bias for good genes

description: Despite heritable variation for univariate sexually selected traits,
 recent analyses exploring multivariate traits find evidence consistent
 with the lek paradox in showing no genetic variation available to choosy
 females, and therefore no genetic benefits of choice. We used the
 preferences of Drosophila melanogaster females to exert bidirectional
 selection on competitive male mating success to test for the presence and
 nature of genetic variation underlying this multivariate trait. Male
 mating success diverged between selection regimens, and flies from
 success-selected lines had a smaller burden of deleterious, recessive
 mutations that affect egg-to-adult viability, were better sperm
 competitors (sperm offence), and did not demonstrate reduced desiccation
 resistance or components of female fitness (traits thought to trade off
 with attractiveness) relative to flies from failure-selected populations.
 Mating success remained subject to inbreeding depression in
 success-selected lines, suggesting that variation in mating success
 remains, thanks to numerous genes of small effect. Together, our results
 provide unique evidence for the evolutionary divergence in male mating
 success, demonstrating that genetic variation is not exhausted along the
 axis of precopulatory sexual selection and that female mating biases align
 with the avoidance of bad genes.
description: Raw data of all fitness
 assaysThis file contains data
 for all fitness assays. The first seven tabs are fitness assays for: male
 mating success, egg-to-adult viability, sperm competitiveness, desiccation
 resistance, larval competitiveness, male wing size and productivity that
 were performed on the success-selected, failure-selected, and control
 lines. The eighth tab contains data from a desiccation resistance assay on
 the stock population, and the ninth and tenth tabs contain data from wing
 size and viability assays performed on size-selected populations. These
 data include: treatment, replicate lines within treatments, replicate
 families within replicate lines, cross (outbred or inbred by
 brother-sister matings), replicate vials within replicate lines, sex, and
 day (the day on which mating trials were conducted). Note that different
 flies from different families and/or vials were used for each
 assay.Fitness assays_ raw
 data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mr31757
title: Data from: Specific MHC class I supertype associated with parasite infection and colour morph in a wild lizard population

description: The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a large gene family that
 plays a central role in the immune system of all jawed vertebrates.
 Non-avian reptiles are under-represented within the MHC literature and
 little is understood regarding the mechanisms maintaining MHC diversity in
 this vertebrate group. Here, we examined the relative roles of
 parasite-mediated selection and sexual selection in maintaining MHC class
 I diversity of a colour polymorphic lizard. We discovered evidence for
 parasite-mediated selection acting via rare-allele advantage or
 fluctuating selection as ectoparasite load was significantly lower in the
 presence of a specific MHC supertype (functional clustering of alleles);
 supertype four. Based on comparisons between ectoparasite prevalence and
 load, and assessment of the impact of ectoparasite load on host fitness,
 we suggest that supertype four confers quantitative resistance to ticks or
 an intracellular tick-borne parasite. We found no evidence for
 MHC-associated mating in terms of pair genetic distance, number of alleles
 or specific supertypes . An association was uncovered between supertype
 four and male throat colour morph. However, it is unlikely that male
 throat colouration acts as a signal of MHC genotype to conspecifics
 because we found no evidence to suggest that male throat colouration
 predicts male mating status. Overall, our results suggest that
 parasite-mediated selection plays a role in maintaining MHC diversity in
 this population via rare allele advantage and/or fluctuating selection.
 Further work is required to determine whether sexual selection also plays
 a role in maintaining MHC diversity in agamid lizards.
description: Data for model set 1:
 Parasite-mediated selectionData used for model set
 1 (parasite-mediated selection). See table S1 in associated article for
 further information.Data_ModelSet1_ParasiteMediatedSelection_Dryad.xlsxData for model set 2: MHC-associated matingData used for model set 2 (MHC-associated mating) and data used for Fisher's Exact test including mating status and MHC supertype presence. See table S1 in associated article for further information.Data_ModelSet2_MhcMateChoice_Dryad.xlsxData for model set 3: Signals of MHC genotypeData used for model set 3 (signals of MHC genotype) and Fisher's exact tests. See table S1 in associated article for further information.Data_ModelSet3_SignalsMhcGenotype_Dryad.xlsxHeterozygosity and relatedness dataData use to test for correlations between MHC variables and heterozygosity and relatedness. See associated article for further details.Data_HeterozygosityRelatedness_Dryad.xlsx