cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7cp7088
title: Data from: Increased reproductive investment associated with greater survival and longevity in Cassin’s auklets

description: Individuals increase lifetime reproductive output through a trade-off
 between investment in future survival and immediate reproductive success.
 This pattern may be obscured in certain higher quality individuals that
 possess greater reproductive potential. The Cassin’s auklet (Ptychoramphus
 aleuticus) is a long-lived species where some individuals exhibit greater
 reproductive ability through a behavior called double brooding. Here, we
 analyze 32 years of breeding histories from marked known-age auklets to
 test whether double brooding increases lifetime fitness despite the
 increased mortality and reduced lifespan higher reproductive effort would
 be expected to incur. Multistate mark-recapture modeling revealed that
 double brooding was strongly positively associated with higher annual
 survival and longevity. Mean (95% CI) apparent survival was 0.69 (0.21,
 0.91) for individuals that executed a single brood and 0.96 (0.84, 0.99)
 for those that double brooded. Generalized linear mixed models indicated
 individuals that attempted multiple double broods over their lifetime were
 able to produce on average seven times as many chicks and live nearly six
 years longer than birds that never attempted a double brood. We found that
 high quality individuals exhibited both increased reproductive effort and
 longevity, where heterogeneity in individual quality masked expected
 life-history trade-offs.
description: LRSCSV file of demographic
 parameters for known age Cassin's aukletsdb.capture.historiesCSV file of recapture histories and associated breeding states for known age Cassin's aukletsupwellingCSV file of mean upwelling index for region around the Farallon Island used in multistate modelJohns_etal_double_broodingR code for running multistate mark recapture models and LRS mixed model selection.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.hm22ps1
title: Data from: Biophysical model of water economy can explain geographic gradients in body size in anurans

description: Geographical gradients of body size express climate-driven constraints on
 animals, but whether they exist and what cause them in ectotherms remains
 contentious. For amphibians, the water conservation hypothesis posits that
 larger bodies reduce evaporative water loss (EWL) along dehydrating
 gradients. To address this hypothesis mechanistically, we build upon
 well-established biophysical equations of water exchange in anurans to
 propose a state-transition model that predicts an increase of either body
 size or resistance to EWL as alternative specialization along dehydrating
 gradients. The model predicts that species whose water economy is more
 sensitive to variation in body size than to variation in resistance to EWL
 should increase in size with response to increasing potential
 evapotranspiration (PET). To evaluate the model predictions, we combine
 physiological measurements of resistance to EWL with geographic data of
 body size for four different anuran species. Only one species,
 Dendropsophus minutus, was predicted to exhibit a positive body size–PET
 relationship. Results were as predicted for all cases, with one species –
 Boana faber – showing a negative relationship. Based on a mathematical
 model verified empirically, we show that clines of body size among anurans
 depend on the current values of those traits and emerges as an advantage
 for water conservation. Our model offers a mechanistic and compelling
 explanation for the cause and the variation of gradients of body size in
 anurans.
description: Gouveia_et_al_Geographical_data_four_speciesThe following data contain the study species (Species), latitude, longitude, sample size (N), mean snout vent-length (SVL), standard deviation of SVL (sd SVL), and potential evapotranspiration (PET).Gouveia_et_al_Physiological_data_four speciesThe following data contain the study species (Species), the total resistance to water loss (Rt, s.cm-1), and body mass (g) of the individuals.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.s402q
title: Data from: Age of enlightenment: long-term effects of outdoor aesthetic lights on bats in churches

description: We surveyed 110 country churches in south-western Sweden for presence of
 brown long-eared bats Plecotus auritus in summer 2016 by visual inspection
 and/or evening emergence counts. Each church was also classified according
 to the presence and amount of aesthetic directional lights (flood-lights)
 aimed on its walls and tower from the outside. Sixty-one of the churches
 had previously been surveyed by one of us (J.R.) between 1980 and 1990,
 before lights were installed on Swedish churches, using the same methods.
 Churches with bat colonies had decreased significantly in frequency from
 61% in 1980s to 38% by 2016. All abandoned churches had been fitted with
 flood-lights in the period between the two surveys. The loss of bat
 colonies from lit churches was highly significant and most obvious when
 lights were applied from all directions, leaving no dark corridor for the
 bats to leave and return to the roost. In contrast, in churches that were
 not lit, all of 13 bat colonies remained after 25+ years between the
 surveys. Lighting of churches and other historical buildings is a serious
 threat to the long-term survival and reproduction of light-averse bats
 such as Plecotus spp. and other slow-flying species. Bat roosts are
 strictly protected according to the EU Habitats Directive and the EUROBATS
 agreement. Lighting of buildings for aesthetic purposes is becoming a
 serious environmental issue, because important bat roosts are destroyed in
 large numbers, and the problem should be handled accordingly. As a start,
 installation of flood-lights on historical buildings should at least
 require an environmental impact assessment (EIA).
description: Rydell et al. Age of
 enlightenment. Supplementary data.Basic data data on
 churches. Frequency of bat occurrence and information on lights and
 renovations.Rydell et al
 churches.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.14q5g
title: Data from: An endangered arboreal specialist, the western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis), shows a greater genetic divergence across a narrow artificial waterway than a major road

description: The fragmentation of habitats by roads and other artificial linear
 structures can have a profound effect on the movement of arboreal species
 due to their strong fidelity to canopies. Here, we used 12 microsatellite
 DNA loci to investigate the fine-scale spatial genetic structure and the
 effects of a major road and a narrow artificial waterway on a population
 of the endangered western ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus occidentalis) in
 Busselton, Western Australia. Using spatial autocorrelation analysis, we
 found positive genetic structure in continuous habitat over distances up
 to 600 m. These patterns are consistent with the sedentary nature of P.
 occidentalis and highlight their vulnerability to the effects of habitat
 fragmentation. Pairwise relatedness values and Bayesian cluster analysis
 also revealed significant genetic divergences across an artificial
 waterway, suggesting that it was a barrier to gene flow. By contrast, no
 genetic divergences were detected across the major road. While studies
 often focus on roads when assessing the effects of artificial linear
 structures on wildlife, this study provides an example of an often
 overlooked artificial linear structure other than a road that has a
 significant impact on wildlife dispersal leading to genetic subdivision.
description: Microsatellite data of
 Pseudocheirus occidentalis in Busselton, Western
 AustraliaThis file contains
 microsatellite scores of 145 adult western ringtail possums in Busselton,
 Western Australia. Genetic samples were collected from 2010 to 2013.
 Allele scores for 12 microsatellite markers are given in a basic table
 format and also in FSTAT input file format. Please refer to the published
 article for more information on the study blocks and microsatellite
 markers used.Yokochi et al genetic
 data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.37fj2
title: Data from: Testing the prey-trap hypothesis at two wildlife conservancies in Kenya

description: Protecting an endangered and highly poached species can conflict with
 providing an open and ecologically connected landscape for coexisting
 species. In Kenya, about half of the black rhino (Diceros bicornis) live
 in electrically fenced private conservancies. Purpose-built fence-gaps
 permit some landscape connectivity for elephant while restricting rhino
 from escaping. We monitored the usage patterns at these gaps by
 motion-triggered cameras and found high traffic volumes and predictable
 patterns of prey movement. The prey-trap hypothesis (PTH) proposes that
 predators exploit this predictable prey movement. We tested the PTH at two
 semi-porous reserves using two different methods: a spatial analysis and a
 temporal analysis. Using spatial analysis, we mapped the location of
 predation events with GPS and looked for concentration of kill sites near
 the gaps as well as conducting clustering and hot spot analysis to
 determine areas of statistically significant predation clustering. Using
 temporal analysis, we examined the time lapse between the passage of prey
 and predator and searched for evidence of active prey seeking and/or
 predator avoidance. We found no support for the PTH and conclude that the
 design of the fence-gaps is well suited to promoting connectivity in these
 types of conservancies.
description: FINAL-PREDATION_LEWA-Borana-2004-2014GPS location of kill sites
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.k0p51
title: Data from: Pollination mitigates cucumber yield gaps more than pesticide and fertilizer use in tropical smallholder gardens

description: 1. Pollination can be an essential but often neglected ecosystem service
 to mitigate crop yield gaps. Pollination services are usually studied in
 isolation and their relative role and possible interactions with other
 factors, such as major management practices, is little understood. 2. We
 tested how pollination (insect versus wind- and self-pollination)
 interacts with weed control, fertilization, and insect herbivore control
 and how these factors as well as flower-visiting bees influence fruit set
 and yield of cucumber Cucumis sativus L. in 13 traditional Indonesian home
 gardens. 3. Although insect pollination, fertilization, and weed control
 additively increased crop yield, fertilization and weed control alone
 could not compensate for pollination loss. Pollination individually
 accounted for 75% of the yield and was, hence, the most important driver
 of yield. In contrast, herbivore control through insecticides at commonly
 applied levels did not increase yield. 5. Yield strongly increased with
 higher number of flower-visiting bee individuals, while the number of bee
 individuals in turn was not influenced by weed control, fertilization, or
 herbivore control, but increased with higher number of cucumber flowers.
 6. Synthesis and applications. Although multiple management practices
 influence yield, they cannot compensate yield gaps from pollinator loss in
 cucumber smallholder production in Indonesia. Our results also show that
 the widespread use of insecticides without considering the impacts on pest
 reduction is uneconomical. Here, reducing insecticides caused no income
 loss and, at the same time, reduces potential risks to important
 pollinators, which needs to be acknowledged by policy-driven regulations
 for pesticide application in tropical agroecosystems. Our results stress
 the importance of enhancing bee populations to facilitate pollination
 services. Bee management practices, such as sustaining additional food
 resources for pollinators, need to be established.
description: allData_Dryad"allData_Dryad" is an Exel file consisting of three sheets with data collected in the field and used in the analyses of this paper. The file includes yield data, herbivory data, and pollinator observation data.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5543625
title: Data from: The sex chromosome system can influence the evolution of sex-biased dispersal

description: Sex-biased dispersal is a much-discussed feature in literature on
 dispersal. Diverse hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evolution
 of sex-biased dispersal, a difference in dispersal rate or dispersal
 distance between males and females. An early hypothesis has indicated that
 it may rely on the difference in sex chromosomes between males and
 females. However, this proposal was quickly rejected without a real
 assessment. We propose a new perspective on this hypothesis by
 investigating the evolution of sex-biased dispersal when dispersal genes
 are sex-linked, i.e. when they are located on the sex chromosomes. We show
 that individuals of the heterogametic sex disperse relatively more than do
 individuals of the homogametic sex when dispersal genes are sex-linked
 rather than autosomal. Although such a sex-biased dispersal towards the
 heterogametic sex is always observed in monogamous species, the mating
 system and the location of dispersal genes interact to modulate sex-biased
 dispersal in monandry and polyandry. In the context of the multicausality
 of dispersal, we suggest that sex-linked dispersal genes can influence the
 evolution of sex-biased dispersal.
description: Simulation
 code2
 folders: 1 for simulation with autosomal inheritance of dispersal genes. 1
 for sex-linked inheritance of dispersal genes.IBM_dispersal_inheritance.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ts635
title: Data from: Offspring telomere length in the long lived Alpine swift is negatively related to the age of their biological father and foster mother

description: A growing body of studies is showing that offspring telomere length (TL)
 can be influenced by the age of their parents. Such a relationship might
 be explained by variation in TL at conception (gamete effect) and/or by
 alteration of early growth conditions in species providing parental care.
 In a long-lived bird with bi-parental care, the Alpine swift (Apus melba),
 we exchanged an uneven number of 2 to 4-day-old nestlings between pairs as
 part of a brood size manipulation. Nestling TL was measured at 50 days
 after hatching, which allowed investigation of the influence of the age of
 both their biological and foster parents on offspring TL, after
 controlling for the manipulation. Nestling TL was negatively related to
 the age of their biological father and foster mother. Nestling TL did not
 differ between enlarged and reduced broods. These findings suggest that
 offspring from older males were fertilized by gametes with shorter
 telomeres, presumably due to a greater cell division history or a longer
 accumulation of damage, and that older females may have provided poorer
 parental care to their offspring.
description: Swifts-2017-chicksExcel file ocntaining the qPCR telomere measurements made on swift chicks in 2004 and 2006Full data setFull data set on offspring and parental telomere lengthData for dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t1b23
title: Data from: Conjugation is necessary for a bacterial plasmid to survive under protozoan predation

description: Horizontal gene transfer by conjugative plasmids plays a critical role in
 the evolution of antibiotic resistance. Interactions between bacteria and
 other organisms can affect the persistence and spread of conjugative
 plasmids. Here we show that protozoan predation increased the persistence
 and spread of the antibiotic resistance plasmid RP4 in populations of the
 opportunist bacterial pathogen Serratia marcescens. A
 conjugation-defective mutant plasmid was unable to survive under
 predation, suggesting that conjugative transfer is required for plasmid
 persistence under the realistic condition of predation. These results
 indicate that multi-trophic interactions can affect the maintenance of
 conjugative plasmids with implications for bacterial evolution and the
 spread of antibiotic resistance genes.
description: Data from: Conjugation
 is necessary for a bacterial plasmid to survive under protozoan
 predationData presented in the
 MSCairns et
 al data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.92t4802
title: Data from: Whisker touch sensing guides locomotion in small, quadrupedal mammals

description: All small mammals have prominent facial whiskers that they employ as
 tactile sensors to guide navigation and foraging in complex habitats.
 Nocturnal, arboreal mammals tend to have the longest and most
 densely-packed whiskers, and semi-aquatic mammals have the most sensitive.
 Here we present evidence to indicate that many small mammals use their
 whiskers to tactually guide safe foot positioning. Specifically, in
 eleven, small, non-flying mammal species we demonstrate that forepaw
 placement always falls within the ground contact zone of the whisker
 field, and that forepaw width is always smaller than whisker span. We also
 demonstrate commonalities of whisker scanning movements (whisking) and
 elements of active control, associated with increasing contact with
 objects of interest, across multiple small mammal species that have
 previously only been shown in common laboratory animals. Overall, we
 propose that guiding locomotion, alongside environment exploration, is a
 common function of whisker touch sensing in small, quadrupedal mammals.
description: Supplementary
 DataData for the paper,
 which contains a number of workbooks: 1) The whisker and locomotion
 tracking measures on a flat floor; 2) The whisker and locomotion tracking
 measures on an inclined floor; 3) The distance and timings between the
 nose and foot placements; 4) Calibrated measurements of head and body. All
 descriptions of the data can be found in the paper. If you have any
 queries, please contact the contacting author - Dr Robyn
 Grant.SupplementaryData.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.r70n0
title: Data from: Power and temptation cause shifts between exploitation and cooperation in a cleaner wrasse mutualism

description: In many instances of cooperation, only one individual has both the
 potential and the incentive to ‘cheat’ and exploit its partner. Under
 these asymmetric conditions, a simple model predicts that variation in the
 temptation to cheat and in the potential victim's capacity for
 partner control leads to shifts between exploitation and cooperation.
 Here, we show that the threat of early termination of an interaction was
 sufficient to induce cleaner wrasse Labroides dimidiatus to feed
 selectively against their preference (which corresponds to cooperatively
 eating client fish ectoparasites), provided that their preference for
 alternative food was weak. Under opposite conditions, cleaners fed
 selectively according to their own preference (which corresponds to
 cheating by eating client mucus). By contrast, a non-cleaning fish
 species, Halichoeres melanurus, failed to adjust its foraging behaviour
 under these same conditions. Thus, cleaners appear to have evolved the
 power to strategically adjust their levels of cooperation according to the
 circumstances.
description: Gingins-Bshary_power-temptation_PROCB2013Results of laboratory experiments involving Labroides dimidiatus and Halichoeres melanurus. Individuals of both species were tested in a foraging experiments designed to be ecologically relevant for Labroides dimidiatus.RESULTS_FINAL.txt
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jc56n4r
title: Data from: Fuel for the pace of life: baseline blood glucose concentration coevolves with life history traits in songbirds

description: 1. It has been proposed that life histories have coevolved with a suite of
 physiological and behavioural adaptations, termed pace-of-life syndromes
 (POLS). Here, we hypothesise that basal concentration of blood glucose
 (G0), a major source of energy circulating in vertebrate blood, may
 constitute a key component of POLS. 2. To test this hypothesis, we
 measured G0 in 30 passerine species and tested its covariation with body
 mass and other life history traits. Importantly, body mass is a major life
 history determinant and, when its effect is controlled for, there may be
 no single fast-slow life history continuum in birds comprising both
 fecundity and lifespan. Hence, we used individual life history traits,
 rather than principal component analysis, to characterise life history
 variation in our analysis. 3. In support of G0 life history coevolution,
 we found G0 to be negatively correlated with body mass and positively with
 reproductive investment in a single clutch across 30 passerine species.
 Higher G0 in females suggests that the energy demands of clutch production
 and incubation may be an important selection force driving coevolution of
 G0 with reproductive output. 4. In contrast, G0 was not associated with
 maximum lifespan, suggesting that high G0 may not constrain evolution of
 longevity. This implies that long-lived species can evolve physiological
 adaptations preventing harmful effects of high glucose concentrations,
 known to cause pathologies and accelerate ageing. 5. In addition, G0, but
 not basal metabolic rate (BMR), was negatively correlated with migration
 distance, attesting to evolutionary changes in energy metabolism in long
 distance migrants. Our results further suggest that the links between body
 mass, reproduction and G0 are not mediated by BMR and that G0 is
 associated with fast-slow life history variation more closely than
 available BMR data. 6. A species life history is determined to a great
 extent by body mass. When this effect is controlled for, only those traits
 related to reproduction (but not lifespan) constitute the principal axis
 of life history variation in birds. Hence, the coevolution of G0 with body
 mass and reproductive output evidenced in our study indicates that G0
 constitutes an important physiological component of POLS.
description: G0_POLS_indDataBasal blood glucose concentration and body mass data from wild (free-living) passerine birds (songbirds) collected in the field. Life-history traits related to reproduction rate/fecundity (clutch size, egg mass, clutch frequency), migration distance, diet and basal metabolic rate data collected from the literature. Maximum lifespan data taken from EURING databank.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1n70s
title: Data from: Social behaviour and collective motion in plant-animal worms

description: Social behaviour may enable organisms to occupy ecological niches that
 would otherwise be unavailable to them. Here we test this major
 evolutionary principle by demonstrating self-organizing social behaviour
 in the plant-animal, Symsagittifera roscoffensis. These marine aceol flat
 worms rely for all of their nutrition on the algae within their bodies:
 hence their common name. We show that individual worms interact with one
 another to co-ordinate their movements so that even at low densities they
 begin to swim in small polarized groups and at increasing densities such
 flotillas turn into circular mills. We use computer simulations to: (1)
 determine if real worms interact socially by comparing them with virtual
 worms that do not interact and (2) show that the social phase transitions
 of the real worms can occur based only on local interactions between and
 among them. We hypothesize that such social behaviour helps the worms to
 form the dense biofilms or mats observed on certain sun-exposed sandy
 beaches in the upper intertidal of the East Atlantic and to become in
 effect a super-organismic seaweed in a habitat where macro-algal seaweeds
 cannot anchor themselves. S. roscoffensis, a model organism in many other
 areas in biology (including stem cell regeneration), also seems to be an
 ideal model for understanding how individual behaviours can lead, through
 collective movement, to social assemblages.
description: Data associated with
 figures in the paperData for figures 1a, 1c,
 1d, 1e, 2b and 3c. The columns in each file correspond to the axes and
 groups in the graph for the respective figure. For more explanation,
 please consult the figure captions and the Electronic Supplementary
 Material.Franks_etal_PRSB2016_data.zip
DOI: 10.34740/kaggle/dsv/14634901
title: e-IPO Indonesia Data - Investment