DOI: 10.5061/dryad.66t1g1k74
title: Data from: Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs

description: For externally fertilizing animals, the early stages of development are
 often the most precarious. In the face of multiple abiotic and biotic
 stressors, parents must assess and select rearing sites that maximize the
 probability of offspring survival. This is particularly true for
 Neotropical poison frogs, many of which transport tadpoles to small pools
 of water called phytotelmata that serve as larval-rearing sites. In these
 systems, pool choice can have a large effect on offspring growth and
 survival. Here, we studied the golden rocket frog (Anomaloglossus beebei,
 Aromobatidae), a territorial phytotelm-breeding frog that lives
 exclusively in giant tank bromeliads (Brocchinia micrantha), to examine
 phytotelm selection and reproductive resource defense. We first quantified
 the characteristics of phytotelmata and found that tadpoles were more
 likely to occur in pools with low levels of mucilage and in leaves at
 intermediate heights on the plant. We additionally found that low mucilage
 pools have significantly clearer water, have higher concentrations of
 dissolved oxygen, and are exposed to lower levels of photosynthetically
 active radiation. We then mapped the spatial distribution of pools with
 low levels of mucilage in relation to male territories and found that
 these “clear” pools are (1) more likely to be within male territories than
 outside of them, and (2) territory centroids are closer to clear pools
 than are random locations. Overall, our results show that male golden
 rocket frogs defend territories that include preferred tadpole deposition
 sites, suggesting a direct relationship between high-quality reproductive
 resources and territory defense.
description: See paper for methods.
description: # Data from: Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery
 characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource
 defense in golden rocket frogs
 [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.66t1g1k74](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.66t1g1k74) README for data files and R code associated with the paper: Fouilloux CA, Goyes Vallejos J, Tumulty JP. Home is where the high-quality resources are: nursery characteristics and territory distribution suggest reproductive resource defense in golden rocket frogs. Evolutionary Ecology. These datasets contain data and code for two different sets of analyses. The first dataset contains biotic and abiotic characteristics of bromeliad pools that were surveyed for the presence or absence of golden rocket frog (*Anomaloglossus beebei*) tadpoles. The associated R code analyzes which characteristics predict the presence of tadpoles. The second dataset contains several data files with spatial data on the locations of male frogs, bromeliads, and associated characteristics of those bromeliads. The associated R code analyzes the spatial association between territorial males and characteristics of bromeliads. The data for this paper was collected by Fouilloux CA, Goyes Vallejos J, and Tumulty JP. Analyses were performed by Fouilloux CA and Tumulty JP. ## Description of the data and file structure 'Beebei\_PoolData2023.csv': each row corresponds to a pool in a bromeliad and the data are different characteristics measured about that pool. Columns: * Bromeliad: Unique identifier for each plant * DO: Dissolved oxygen reading, in mg/L * Temp: Temperature in degrees Celcius * PAR: Phytosynthetically active radiation above pool * Water: categorical variable describing pool turbidity (clear/turbid) * Full\_Sun: Measurement of PAR taken under open sky, without any canopy cover (see paper for details) * Depth: Pool depth in cm * Width: Pool width in cm * Volume: Pool volume in mL * Tad\_Count: Number of tadpoles in pool * Pool\_ID: Unique identifier for each pool within a bromeliad * PercPAR: PAR expressed as a percentage of full sun PAR (PAR/Full\_Sun)\*100 * logPAR: Logarithm of PercPAR * YNTad: Binary variable expressing whether or not a tadpole was in the pool * L\_H: Categorical variable describing leaf height (Low, middle, or High) * Goop\_Cat: Categorical variable describing level of mucilage (None, Low, Medium, High * Goop\_Count: Numerical variable describing level of mucilage (0, 1, 2, 3) 'Male\_recapture\_locations\_2017.csv': Capture locations of individual males, measured as the distance and bearing of the location from the nearest reference flag in a 25 X 25 m grid, with reference flags located every 2.5m. Columns: * ID: Unique identifier for each male * Sex: Sex of the individual frog * Dist: Distance, in meters, to the male's capture location from the nearest reference flag in the grid * Bearing: Compass bearing, in degrees, to the male's capture location from the nearest reference flag in the grid * Ref\_flag\_x: Distance, in meters, of the reference flag from the origin along the one axis ('x axis') of the grid * Ref\_flag\_y: Distance, in meters, of the reference flag from the origin along the other axis ('y axis') of the grid 'Brom\_locations\_2017.csv': Locations of all bromeliads at the site, measured as distance and bearing to the center of the plant from the nearest reference flag in the 25 X 25m grid, with reference flags located every 2.5m. Columns: * Brom: Unique identifier for each bromeliad. The bromeliad IDs here also correspond to the bromeliad IDs in 'Broms&Goop\_2017.csv' * Dist: Distance, in meters, to the center of the bromeliad from the nearest reference flag in the grid * Bearing: Compass bearing, in degrees, to the center of the bromeliad from the nearest reference flag in the grid * Ref\_flag\_x: Distance, in meters, of the reference flag from the origin along the one axis ('x axis') of the grid * Ref\_flag\_y: Distance, in meters, of the reference flag from the origin along the other axis ('y axis') of the grid * Leaf\_Diam: Diameter, in meters, of the bromeliad, measured from the outermost edge of one leaf to the outermost edge of a leaf on the opposite side of the plant * Phyto\_Diam: Diameter, in meters, of the water-holding center of the plant, measured from the outermost edge of the waterline in a pool on one side of the plant to the outermost edge of the waterline in a pool on the opposite side of the plant 'Broms&Goop\_2017.csv': The number pools that have no mucilage, low mucilage, and high mucilage levels in each bromeliad. Columns: * Brom: Unique identifier for each bromeliad, the bromeliad IDs here correspond to the bromeliad IDs in 'Brom\_locations\_2017.csv' * Clear\_pools: The number of pools with no mucilage * Low\_Goop\_pools: The number of pools with low levels of mucilage ## Code/Software '2023\_EvoEco\_Beebei.Rmd' is the R script used to analyze the characteristics of bromeliad pools that best the presence of golden rocket frog tadpoles. This script loads in the data file 'Beebei\_PoolData2023.csv' 'Territory\_goop\_spatial\_association.R' is the R script used to analyze the spatial associations between male territories and clear pools in bromeliads. This script loads in the data files 'Male\_recapture\_locations\_2017.csv', 'Brom\_locations\_2017.csv', and 'Broms&Goop\_2017.csv'