cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.hhmgqnkkn
title: Population density does not affect seasonal regulation of reproductive physiology in male water voles

description: Most small rodent species display cyclic fluctuations in their population
 density. The mechanisms behind these cyclical variations are not yet
 clearly understood. Density-dependent effects on reproductive function
 could affect these population variations. The fossorial water vole
 ecotype, Arvicola terrestris, undergoes a multi-year cycle dynamic with
 outbreak peaks. Here, we monitored different water vole populations over
 three years, in spring and autumn, to evaluate whether population density
 be related to male reproductive physiology. Our results show an effect of
 season and inter-annual factors in testes mass, plasmatic testosterone
 level, and androgen-dependent seminal vesicles mass. By contrast,
 population density does not affect any of these parameters, thus
 suggesting a lack of modulation of population dynamics of population
 density.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pzgmsbcqk
title: Can native predators be used as a stepping stone to reduce prey naivety to novel predators?

description: Predator naivety negatively affects reintroduction success and this threat
 is exacerbated when prey encounters predators with which they have had no
 evolutionary experience. While methods have been developed to inculcate
 fear into such predator-naïve individuals, none have been uniformly
 successful. Exposing ontogenetically- and evolutionary-naïve individuals
 firstly to native predators may be an effective stepping stone to improved
 responses to evolutionarily novel predators. We focused on greater bilbies
 (Macrotis lagotis) and capitalised on a multi-year mammalian recovery
 experiment whereby western quolls (Dasyurus geoffroii) were reintroduced
 into parts of a large fenced reserve that contained a population of naïve
 bilbies. We quantified a suite of antipredator behaviours and measures of
 general wariness across quoll-exposed and quoll-naive bilby populations.
 We then translocated both quoll-exposed and quoll-naïve individuals into a
 large enclosure that contained feral cats (Felis catus) and monitored
 several behaviours. We found that bilbies can respond appropriately to
 quolls but found only limited support that experience with quolls better
 prepared bilbies to respond to cats. Both populations of bilbies rapidly
 modified their behaviour in a similar manner following their
 reintroduction to a novel environment. These results may have emerged due
 to insufficient prior exposure to quolls, inappropriate behavioural tests
 or insufficient predation risk during cat exposure. Alternatively, quolls
 and cats are only distantly related and may not share sufficient
 similarities in their predatory cues or behaviour to support such a
 learning transfer. Testing this stepping stone hypothesis with more
 closely-related predator species and under higher predation risk would be
 informative.
description: Data from each of four experiments are provided. The data was
 collected from a variety of methods conducted under field settings. These
 primarily were from radio-tracking data, camera trap data and filming of
 behaviour. Raw data of burrow sites are provided. Data collected from
 videos from either camera traps or hand held cameras were analysed using
 BORIS to determine the time spent engaged in various behaviours. The
 proportion of time engaged in specific behaviours were calculated from the
 total time the individual was visible.
description: The data is provided as a csv file and can be opened using MS
 excel or R.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3tx95x6k6
title: Behavioral trajectories of aging prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster): Adapting behavior to social context wanes with advanced age

description: Several studies using mice have examined the effects of aging on cognitive
 tasks, as well as sensory and motor functions. However, few studies have
 examined the influence of aging on social behavior. Prairie voles
 (Microtus ochrogaster) are a socially monogamous and biparental rodent
 that live in small family groups and are now among the most popular rodent
 models for studies examining social behavior. Although the social
 behavioral trajectories of early-life development in prairie voles have
 been well-studied, how social behavior may change throughout adulthood
 remains unknown. Here we examined behavior in virgin male and female
 prairie voles in four different age groups: postnatal day (PND) 60–80,
 140–160, 220–240, and 300–320. All animals underwent testing in a novel
 object task, a dominance test, a resident-intruder test, and several
 iterations of social approach and social interaction tests with varying
 types of social stimuli (i.e., novel same-sex conspecific, novel
 opposite-sex conspecific, familiar same-sex sibling/cagemate, small group
 of novel same-sex conspecifics). We found that age influenced neophobia
 and dominance, but not social approach behavior. Further, we found that
 young adult, but not older adult, prairie voles adapt prosocial and
 aggressive behavior relative to social context and that selective
 aggression occurs in relation to age even in the absence of a pair bond.
 Our results suggest that prairie voles calibrate social phenotype in a
 context-dependent manner in young adulthood and stop adjusting behavior to
 social context in advanced age, demonstrating that social behavior is
 plastic not only throughout early development but also well into
 adulthood. Together, this study provides insight into age-related changes
 in social behavior in prairie voles and shows that prairie voles may be a
 viable model for studying the cognitive and physiological benefits of
 social relationships and social engagement in advanced age.
description: Behavioral data was collected via video analysis in BORIS.
description: Excel
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.x95x69pnm
title: Data from: Which plumage patches provide information about condition and success in a female fairy-wren?

description: Recent evidence suggests that female ornaments can commonly act as
 signals. However, how signaling functions might be affected by the
 tendency for reduced ornament elaboration in relation to males is less
 well understood. We address this in mutually ornamented purple-crowned
 fairy-wrens. We investigated putatively ornamental (tail, ear coverts,
 crown) and non-ornamental (throat, back) plumage patches in females and
 compared our findings to previous studies in males. Both sexes have brown
 backs, buff-white throats, and turquoise-blue tails (bluer in males),
 while ear coverts are rufous in females and black in males. Both sexes
 also have a seasonal crown (slate-grey in females, black-and-purple in
 males). Dominant (breeder) females expressed more complete and greyer
 (more ornamented) crowns, although variation in coloration should not be
 discriminable by individuals. Unexpectedly, subordinates showed more
 colorful (saturated) rufous ear coverts, which should be discriminable.
 Condition dependence was only evident for crown completeness (% slate-grey
 cover). Females with more reddish-brown backs were more reproductively
 successful. Variation in plumage characteristics did not explain
 differential allocation by mates or chances of gaining dominance. Our
 outcomes were not entirely consistent with findings in males. The most
 notable disparity was for the crown, a signal used in male-male
 competition that in females seems to be expressed as an incomplete version
 of the male crown that is not associated with fitness benefits. Our study
 shows that in a species, multiple traits can vary in their information
 content and that female ornaments can sometimes be less informative than
 in males, even those that are produced seasonally.
description: Data were collected from a population of purple-crowned
 fairy-wrens within the Mornington Wildlife Sactuary, a protected area
 located in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Data collection took
 place from 2005 to 2017 and involved bird banding, blood sampling,
 population censuses, behavioral observations, and reflectance measurements
 of plumage patches and habitat components. 
description: These files include the data used to reproduce the analyses of
 our paper entitled "Which plumage patches provide information about
 condition and success in a female fairy-wren?". We also include a
 README file explaining column headers.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rbnzs7hf4
title: Data from: Declining temperature and increasing moisture sensitivity of shrub growth in the Low-Arctic erect dwarf-shrub tundra of western Greenland

description: Evergreen dwarf shrubs respond swiftly to warming in the cool and dry High
 Arctic, but their response in the warmer Low Arctic, where they are
 expected to be outcompeted by taller species under future warming, remains
 to be clarified. Here, 12,528 annual growth increments, covering 122 years
 (1893-2014), were measured of 764 branches from 25 individuals of the
 evergreen dwarf shrub Cassiope tetragona from a Low-Arctic erect
 dwarf-shrub tundra site in western Greenland. In addition, branch
 initiation and mortality frequency time series were developed. The
 influence of seasonal climate and correspondence with fluctuations in
 regional normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), a satellite proxy
 for vegetation productivity, were studied. Summer temperatures were the
 main driver of growth, while winter temperatures were the main
 non-summer-climate driver. During past and recent warm episodes, shrub
 growth diverged from summer temperatures. In recent decades, early summer
 precipitation has become the main growth-limiting factor for some
 individuals, likely through micro-topography-determined soil moisture
 availability, and more than half of the shrubs studied became irresponsive
 to summer temperatures. There was correspondence between climatic drivers,
 C. tetragona growth and branch initiation frequency, and
 satellite-observed vegetation productivity, suggesting the area’s
 shrub-dominated tundra vegetation is limited by similar climatic factors.
 Winter warming events were likely the predominant cause of branch
 mortality, while branching increased after years of poor growth and
 cooler-than-average summers. Synthesis: These findings show that the erect
 dwarf-shrub tundra in the Low Arctic has already and will likely become
 decreasingly temperature- and increasingly moisture-limited and that
 winter warming supports shrub growth, but increased extreme winter warming
 event frequency may increase branch mortality and vegetation damage. Such
 counter-acting mechanisms could offer an explanation for the vegetation
 stability observed over large parts of the Arctic.
description: The dataset consists of 12,528 annual shoot length growth
 measurements of 764 branches from 25 <em>Cassiope
 tetragona</em> shrubs from Disko Island, western Greenland. In
 addition, the dataset contains branch demography information, i.e., the
 year of initiation and year of death of each branch, when known.
 See the publication for more information on the methods used:
 Weijers (2022) - Declining temperature and increasing moisture sensitivity
 of shrub growth in the Low-Arctic erect dwarf-shrub tundra of western
 Greenland - Ecology and Evolution
description: See attached README.md file for additional information.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4f2
title: Vindication of Physcomitrium pygmaeum (Funariaceae), an elusive and endangered moss from North America’s Great Basin

description: Physcomitrium pygmaeum is an ephemeral moss described in 1871 from a
 single collection from Utah, currently considered conspecific with
 Physcomitrium pyriforme. The interpretation of the taxon has been
 problematic due to its rarity in the field, the elusiveness of the type
 material, and an extremely scattered and inconsistent collection record.
 Here we present a comprehensive description and assessment of the taxon
 following the identification of the original material and lectotype
 designation, the examination of all herbarium specimens existing to the
 best of our knowledge, the collection of fresh material in Nevada, and the
 molecular barcoding of the latter using four plastid and two nuclear loci.
 Available information, albeit scant, suggests that this member of the
 North American bryoflora should be considered critically endangered
 following IUCN criteria.
description: PCR products were sequenced in an ABI Prism 3100 Genetic
 Analyzer, assembled with Geneious (https://www.geneious.com/), manually aligned in PhyDE v. 0.9971 (http://phyde.de/), and converted to NEXUS format.
description: This set includes two NEXUS alignments. 
 Ppygmaeum_nuc_7379_10039.nex is the partial concatenation of the 7379
 (positions 1-301) and 10039 (positions 302-456) nuclear regions from the
 bait set published in https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8rq9465. Ppygmaeum_plast_4loci.nex is the concatenarion of loci atpB-rbcL (positions 1-729), psbA-trnH (730-1167), rps4 (1168-1810), and trnL-F (1811-2319). Taxon names and accession numbers are referenced to herbarium vouchers in the publication.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sbcc2fr9r
title: Does artificial feeding impact neonate growth rates in a large free-ranging mammal?

description: Variation and disparity in resource access between individuals in an
 animal population require attention within human-dominated landscapes
 where artificial selection processes may be at work. Independent,
 recreational human-wildlife feeding interactions constitute an
 increasingly prevalent yet understudied food resource for birds and
 mammals living in our cities, but only a limited number of risk-taking
 individuals may access it. Using urban fallow deer as our model species,
 we hypothesised that if these interactions result in positive effects for
 the engaging individual, e.g. increased milk quality and yield, then this
 would result in the increased growth rates of their offspring.
 Alternatively, if these individuals were prioritising investing time in
 engagement with humans, resulting in decreased maternal care, then this
 would result in slower growth rates in offspring. We found that the
 offspring of those females that regularly interacted with humans displayed
 significantly faster growth rates than the risk-avoider counterparts. This
 advantage for fearless mothers in terms of boosted neonatal growth rates
 could be mirrored in birds accessing garden feeders, seagulls or pigeons
 utilizing urban resources, or seals approaching city harbours. Here, we
 add a new piece to the complex puzzle of how humans are manipulating
 wildlife living within human-dominated landscapes.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.w6m905qsp
title: The effect of nutrient-enrichment and sedimentation on belowground productivity and decomposition in marshes of Barataria Bay, Louisiana

description: To test the hypotheses that nutrient enrichment and sediment deposition
 interact to influence vegetation structure, belowground
 plant productivity and decomposition, a field experiment was
 implemented in three marshes in Barataria Bay, LA (healthy oligohaline
 [OL], brackish deteriorating [DT] and intermediate created [CR]) across
 experimental plots receiving one of six treatments: control, low nutrients
 (LN; 100 g N m-2 yr-1 and 11g P m-2 yr-1), high nutrients (HN; 1000 g m-2
 yr-1 and 50 g P m-2 yr-1), sediment addition (47 kg m-2 [5 cm elevation
 increase]), and their combination (n = 5). Datasets here include (1) root
 ingrowth rates; and (2) belowground decomposition rates; (3) vegetation
 structure; and (4) porewater nutrient concentrations.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d2547d85j
title: Effect of elevation, nutrient-enrichment and sedimentation on productivity of Sagittaria lancifolia

description: For this study, we tested the hypothesis that elevation, sedimentation,
 and nutrient-enrichment interact to affect wetland community composition
 and plant productivity. Plant productivity was generally predicted to be
 greater with a combination of less flooding, greater sedimentation and
 nutrient-enrichment. To test these hypotheses, 96 marsh soil plugs were
 collected from a Sagittaria lancifolia-dominated oligohaline marsh and
 placed them into a greenhouse mesocosm.  Plugs experienced a
 simulated diurnal tide of 15 cm and were subjected to a combination of
 three treatments for two growing seasons (n = 8):  1) an
 elevation treatment of low (20 cm below MHW) or high (5 cm below MHW) 2)
 sediment deposition treatment of 0 (control), 5, or 10 cm and 3) no
 nutrient-enrichment (control) or a nutrient-enriched treatment of 2.0 mg/L
 N as (CaNO3)2 and 0.3 mg/L P as PO4. Measurements included water column
 and porewater nutrient concentrations, species richness, species-specific
 stem densities and heights, aboveground biomass, root ingrowth, soil
 organic matter content, and bulk density.
DOI: 10.25338/b8fp72
title: Data: Phenotypic trait differences between Iris pseudacorus in native and introduced ranges support greater capacity of invasive populations to withstand sea level rise

description: Tidal wetlands are greatly impacted by climate change, and by the invasion
 of alien plant species that are being exposed to salinity changes and
 longer inundation periods resulting from sea level rise. To
 explore the capacity for the invasion of Iris pseudacorus (Yellow
 flag iris) to persist with sea level rise, we initiated an
 intercontinental study along estuarine gradients in the invaded North
 American range and the native European range.  Data
 generated to support this study includes field- and laboratory-derived
 measurements including a suite of functional plant traits of I.
 pseudacorus and environmental variables including soil and tidewater
 inundation data at five native and five introduced populations study
 sites. These data were used to compare morphological, biochemical, and
 reproductive plant traits within populations in both ranges to determine
 if specific functional traits can predict invasion success and if
 environmental factors explain observed phenotypic differences. 
description: All data are generated from field sample acquisition and
 measurements, and laboratory analyses of these data. 
 Plant traits were measured in the field, and plant tissue samples
 were analyzed for biochemical composition in the laboratory.
 Soil samples were collected and analyzed in the laboratory.
 Organic matter was analyzed by percent loss on ignition. Soil water
 salinity was analyzed by standard saturation paste extraction methology.
 Tidewater level data were acquired from continuous tide monitoring
 stations in the two study estuaries, or from onsite data acquisition with
 Solinst pressure transducers.
DOI: 10.18419/darus-5559
title: Replication Data and Scripts for: Quantum vs. classical: A comprehensive benchmark study for predicting time series with variational quantum machine learning

description: The data and scripts provided here are for reproducing the results of "Quantum vs. classical: A comprehensive benchmark study for predicting time series with variational quantum machine learning" Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 7 010501 (2026) (&lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/ae365f"&gt;doi: 10.1088/2632-2153/ae365f&lt;/a&gt;). See the README.md file for details and instructions.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4tmpg4fdm
title: Large-scale changes in macrobenthic biodiversity driven by mangrove afforestation

description: Large-scale anthropogenic mangroves have been constructed in coastal
 regions worldwide, but our understanding of their ecological effects is
 limited. In particular, the question of whether and how anthropogenic
 mangroves influence biodiversity patterns remains elusive. Here, we
 investigated the influence of large-scale anthropogenic mangroves on
 biodiversity patterns of mangrove macrobenthos. Specifically, we measure
 and seek to explain differences in species richness, abundance, assemblage
 composition, and distance-decay effect before and after the construction
 of anthropogenic mangroves. We surveyed assemblages of gastropod, bivalve
 and crab species over a wide latitudinal extent (24–28°N) in subtropical
 China. For each, we calculated species richness, abundance, assemblage
 composition, and distance-decay relationship before and after the
 construction of anthropogenic mangroves. After the large-scale
 anthropogenic mangroves, we found species richness of gastropods, bivalves
 and crabs increased by 23.81%, 100% and 20%, respectively. The
 distance-decay effects of gastropods and bivalves decreased by 25% and
 91.43%, while that of crabs remained virtually unchanged, indicating that
 large-scale monospecific planting changed spatial processes of
 macrobenthos (e.g., dispersal limitation). With mangrove plantation,
 compositional similarity of crab and bivalve assemblages increased by
 28.57% and 38.46%, suggesting that large-scale monospecific planting
 exacerbates biotic homogenization. Altogether, these results indicate that
 large-scale anthropogenic habitats increase the diversity of mangrove
 macrobenthos and change taxonomic compositions by reducing distance-decay
 effects. Synthesis and applications. We emphasize that afforestation of
 coastal wetlands can drive major changes in benthonic communities.
 Monitoring and assessing the ecological effects of the anthropogenic
 habitats for the presence of functional faunas will be important in
 determining the future coastal restoration and maintaining economic
 aquaculture. Quantifying those effects in terms of regional biodiversity
 composition enables management decisions about habitat restoration to be
 based upon macro-evidence rather than wishful thinking or untested
 intuition even or a one-sided local perspective.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18401509
title: Machine Learning in Next-Generation AEM Fuel Cells: A Systematic Review