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DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1n4f7
title: Data from: Ecology, biofacies, biogeography and systematics of micromorphic lingulate brachiopods from the Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) of south-central China

description: Ordovician (Darriwilian to Sandbian) micromorphic linguliform lingulate
 brachiopods are described from the Guniutan Formation at the Fenxiang
 section in Hubei province, and the Maocaopu and Cili sections in Hunan
 province of south-central China, situated on the Yangtze Platform. A total
 of 7560 specimens from 155 limestone samples (within the interval of
 Lenodus variabilis – Pygodus anserinus biozones) are assigned to 22
 species, representing a low taxonomic diversity and low abundance fauna.
 The fauna is dominated by the Acrotretoidea, mainly species of the
 Torynelasmatidae, with Torynelasma the most abundant (more than 40% of
 total number of specimens), along with the Eoconulidae and Eoconulus (18%
 of total) representing the second most common forms. Species of the
 Ephippelasmatidae are also common (16% of total) diverse, and include
 representatives of Myotreta and Numericoma, as well as Ephippelasma,
 whereas species of the Scaphelasmatidae are somewhat less common (13% of
 total). All three investigated sections represent outer shelf
 environments, but the Maocaopu section is situated in a relatively deeper
 position, in proximity of the south-eastern outer margin of the Upper
 Yangtze Platform, close to its boundary with the Jiangnan Slope. A
 quantitative analysis of the relative abundance data was carried out in
 order to investigate the biofacies distribution of the micromorphic
 brachiopod communities across the Yangtze Platform, something that has not
 been attempted before with Palaeozoic linguliforms. Six lingulate
 microbrachiopod communities could be recognized in the sections. The major
 biofacies shift, which occurred in the Cili section in the upper part of
 the Microzarkodina ozarkodella Zone, at the time of the onset and initial
 rise of the Mid Darriwilian Carbon Isotope Excursion (MDICE) suggests that
 these biofacies may have been depth controlled.
description: Tables
 4-12Localities and basic
 statistics for the described Associations (number of individual for each
 taxon estimated by methods outlined in the text)
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.k7d23
title: Data from: Impacts of drought and nitrogen addition on Calluna-heathlands differ with plant life-history stage

description: 1. Climate change and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen (N) affect the
 biodiversity patterns and functions of ecosystems worldwide. While many
 single-factor studies have quantified ecosystem responses to single global
 change drivers, less is known about the interaction effects of these
 drivers on ecosystem functions. 2. Here, we present the results of a
 three-year field and a two-year greenhouse experiment, in which we
 assessed responses of Calluna vulgaris-heathlands to the single and
 combined effects of drought events (D) and N fertilisation (D: 25%
 precipitation reduction in the field experiment and 20-50% soil water
 content reduction in the greenhouse experiment; N fertilisation: 35 kg N
 ha−1 yr−1). 3. We examined the effects of D and N treatments on growth
 responses of the dominant dwarf shrub Calluna vulgaris (in terms of
 biomass production and allocation, tissue δ13C signatures and C:N ratios)
 in relation to two plant life-history stages and different ‘ecotypes’
 (sub-Atlantic vs. subcontinental heathlands). 4. Plant responses varied
 strongly with life-history stage, and the interaction of N and D showed
 lower effects than would be expected based on additive responses to single
 factors. While D treatments had no effects on Calluna in the building
 phase (ca. ten-year-old plants), seedlings (particularly one-year-old
 plants) were highly susceptible to drought. Differences in response
 patterns were attributable to the high shoot-root ratios typical of young
 Calluna plants. These ratios decreased with progressing life-history as a
 result of increasing below-ground biomass investments. Below-ground
 biomass production and shoot-root ratios differed between plants from the
 different heathland sites. 5. Tissue δ13C signatures decreased and C:N
 ratios increased with plant age as a result of decreasing evaporative
 demands (per unit root biomass). N fertilisation increases the shoot-root
 ratios and thereby the drought susceptibility of Calluna plants. 6.
 Synthesis. Our findings suggest that plant responses to global change are
 difficult to anticipate by means of single-factor studies or by focusing
 on a single life-history stage. This highlights the need for global change
 research to include multiple factors and life-history stages when
 assessing an ecosystem's susceptibility to shifts in environmental
 conditions.
description: Data field and
 greenhouse experimentsThe excel file contains
 the datasets from our field and greenhouse experiments for all response
 variables and study years used in this publication: dry weight, shoot-root
 ratios, C:N ratios and delta13C signatures for aboveground and belowground
 biomass.Data.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5d4fh
title: Data from: Paternal care and litter size coevolution in mammals

description: Biparental care of offspring occurs in diverse mammalian genera, and is
 particularly common among species with socially monogamous mating systems.
 Despite numerous well-documented examples however, the evolutionary causes
 and consequences of paternal care in mammals are not well understood. Here
 we investigate the evolution of paternal care in relation to offspring
 production. Using comparative analyses to test for evidence of
 evolutionary associations between male care and life history traits, we
 explore if biparental care is likely to have evolved because of the
 importance of male care to offspring survival, or if evolutionary
 increases in offspring production are likely to result from the evolution
 of biparental care. Overall, we find no evidence that paternal care has
 evolved in response to benefits of supporting females to rear particularly
 costly large offspring or litters. Rather, our findings suggest that
 increases in offspring production are more likely to follow the evolution
 of paternal care, specifically where males contribute depreciable
 investment such as provisioning young. Through coevolution with litter
 size, we conclude that paternal care in mammals is likely to play an
 important role in stabilising monogamous mating systems and could
 ultimately promote the evolution of complex social behaviours.
description: Data file
 Stockley&HobsonExcel file containing
 comparative data on male care and life history traits of
 mammals
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1p004
title: Data from: The evolution of intrinsic reproductive isolation in the genus Cakile (Brassicaceae)

description: In theory, adaptive divergence can increase intrinsic post-zygotic
 reproductive isolation (RI), either directly via selection on loci
 associated with RI, or indirectly via linkage of incompatibility loci with
 loci under selection. To test this hypothesis, we measured RI at five
 intrinsic post-zygotic reproductive barriers between 18 taxa from the
 genera Cakile and Erucaria (Brassicaceae). Using a comparative framework,
 we tested whether the magnitude of RI was associated with genetic
 distance, geographic distance, ecological divergence, and parental mating
 system. Early stages of post-zygotic RI related to F1 viability (i.e.,
 initial seed set) tended to be stronger than later stages related to F1
 fecundity (i.e., flower number, fruit number). Mating system significantly
 influenced early stages of RI, such that RI was lowest when the mother was
 selfing and father was outcrossing, consistent with an imbalance between
 sink strength and resistance to provisioning. We found little evidence
 that adaptive divergence accelerates the evolution of intrinsic
 post-zygotic RI, consistent with non-ecological model of evolution that
 predicts the non-linear accumulation of RI and RI asymmetry with time
 (i.e., genetic distance), irrespective of adaptive divergence. Thus, while
 certain aspects of ecological divergence do not appear to have contributed
 strongly to the evolution of RI in this system, divergence in mating
 system actually reduced RI, suggesting that mating-system evolution may
 play a significant role in speciation dynamics.
description: Mean Cross Dataset - RI,
 GD, and EDDataset contains mean
 reproductive isolation values, genetic distance values and ecological
 distance values for each taxon pair cross.Combined Dataset -
 Dryad.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1n755
title: Data from: Context-dependency and anthropogenic effects on individual plant-frugivore networks

description: Anthropogenic activities, such as grazing by domestic animals, are
 considered drivers of environmental changes that may influence the
 structure of interaction networks. The study of individual-based networks
 allows testing how species-level interaction patterns emerge from the
 pooled interaction modes of individuals within populations. Exponential
 random graph models (ERGMs) examine the global structure of networks by
 allowing the inclusion of specific node (i.e. interacting partners)
 properties as explanatory covariates. Here we assessed the structure of
 individual plant-frugivore interaction networks and the ecological
 variables that influence the mode of interactions under different land-use
 (grazed vs ungrazed protected areas). We quantified the number of visits,
 the number of fruits removed per visit and the interaction strength of
 mammal frugivore species at each individual tree. Additionally we
 quantified ecological variables at the individual, microhabitat,
 neighborhood and habitat scales that generated interaction network
 structure under the different land uses. Individual plant-frugivore
 networks were significantly modular in both land uses but the number of
 modules was higher in the grazed areas. We found interaction networks for
 grazed and ungrazed lands were structured by phenotypic traits of
 individual trees, by the microhabitat beneath the tree canopy and were
 affected by habitat modifications of anthropogenic origin. The
 neighborhood surrounding each individual plant influenced plant-frugivore
 interactions only at the grazed-land trees. We conclude that anthropogenic
 land uses influence the topological patterns of plant-frugivore networks
 and the frugivore visitation to trees through modification of both habitat
 complexity and the ecological traits underlying interactions between
 individual plants and frugivore species.
description: Plant traits and
 plant-frugivore interactions dataData collected in the
 field to assess plant-frugivore interactions and plant traits. The
 methodologies used were: Camera traps to quantify the number of visits and
 the number of fruits removed by each frugivore species at each Prosopis
 flexuosa tree and, vegetation transects using the modified point quadrat
 method at the microhabitat and habitat scales. Plant traits include
 individual tree characteristics, neighborhood description, microhabitat
 and habitat variables.Miguel_etal_datafile.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t570g
title: Data from: Temporal patterns in the abundance of a critically endangered marsupial relates to disturbance by roads and agriculture

description: The aim of this study was to investigate how landscape disturbance
 associated with roads, agriculture and forestry influenced temporal
 patterns in woylie (Bettongia penicillata) abundance before, during and
 after periods of rapid population change. Data were collected from an area
 of approximately 140,000 ha of forest within the Upper Warren region in
 south-western Australia. Woylie abundance was measured using cage trapping
 at 22 grid and five transect locations with varying degrees of landscape
 disturbance between 1994 and 2012. We found evidence that the distribution
 and abundance of woylies over time appears to be related to the degree of
 fragmentation by roads and proximity to agriculture. Sites furthest from
 agriculture supported a greater abundance of woylies and had slower rates
 of population decline. Sites with fewer roads had a greater abundance of
 woylies generally and a greater rate of increase in abundance after the
 implementation of invasive predator control. The results of this study
 suggest that landscape disturbance is less important at peak population
 densities, but during times of environmental and population change, sites
 less dissected by roads and agriculture better support woylie populations.
 This may be due to the role these factors play in increasing the
 vulnerability of woylies to introduced predators, population
 fragmentation, weed species invasion, mortality from road collisions or a
 reduction in available habitat. Strategies that reduce the impact of
 disturbance on woylie populations could include the rationalisation of
 forest tracks and consolidation of contiguous habitat through the
 acquisition of private property. Reducing the impact of disturbance in the
 Upper Warren region could improve the resilience of this critically
 important woylie population during future environmental change.
description: Landscape disturbance
 variables and woylie capture rate over timeSheet one contains the
 capture rate of woylies at each site between 1994 and 2012. Blank cells
 indicate no sample collected during that year. Sheet two contains the
 measured road network density, proximity to agriculture and timber
 harvesting history of each of the 22 grid and 5 transect
 locations.Temporal patterns woylie
 abundance data files dryad.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9150
title: Data from: Winning the invasion roulette: escapes from fish farms increase admixture and facilitate establishment of non-native rainbow trout

description: Aquaculture is a major source of invasive aquatic species, despite the
 fact that cultured organisms often have low genetic diversity and tend to
 be maladapted to survive in the wild. Yet, to what extent aquaculture
 escapees become established by means of high propagule pressure and
 multiple origins is not clear. We analysed the genetic diversity of 15
 established populations and 4 farmed stocks of non-native rainbow trout in
 Chile, a species first introduced for recreational fishing around 1900,
 but which has in recent decades escaped in large numbers from fish farms
 and become widespread. Aquaculture propagule pressure was a good predictor
 of the incidence of farm escapees, which represented 16% of all
 free-ranging rainbow trout and were present in 80% of the study rivers.
 Hybrids between farm escapes and established trout were present in all
 rivers at frequencies ranging between 7 and 69%, and population admixture
 was positively correlated with genetic diversity. We suggest that
 non-native salmonids introduced into the Southern Hemisphere could benefit
 from admixture because local adaptations may not have yet developed and
 there may be initially little fitness loss resulting from outbreeding
 depression.
description: Rainbowtrout_microsatellites_rawdataRaw microsatellite sizes of 15 established populations and 4 farmed populations of Rainbow trout in Chile
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p745m
title: Data from: The genetic basis of the fitness costs of antimicrobial resistance: a meta-analysis approach

description: The evolution of antibiotic resistance carries a fitness cost, expressed
 in terms of reduced competitive ability in the absence of antibiotics.
 This cost plays a key role in the dynamics of resistance by generating
 selection against resistance when bacteria encounter an antibiotic-free
 environment. Previous work has shown that the cost of resistance is highly
 variable, but the underlying causes remain poorly understood. Here, we use
 a meta-analysis of the published resistance literature to determine how
 the genetic basis of resistance influences its cost. We find that on
 average chromosomal resistance mutations carry a larger cost than
 acquiring resistance via a plasmid. This may explain why resistance often
 evolves by plasmid acquisition. Second, we find that the cost of plasmid
 acquisition increases with the breadth of its resistance range. This
 suggests a potentially important limit on the evolution of extensive
 multidrug resistance via plasmids. We also find that epistasis can
 significantly alter the cost of mutational resistance. Overall, our study
 shows that the cost of antimicrobial resistance can be partially explained
 by its genetic basis. It also highlights both the danger associated with
 plasmidborne resistance and the need to understand why resistance plasmids
 carry a relatively low cost.
description: Vogwill Maclean
 metanalysis for dryad August 2014Excel file containing
 all data relevant for statistical analyses.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.mv5c0
title: Data from: Resist globally, infect locally: a transcontinental test of adaptation by stickleback and their tapeworm parasite

description: Parasite infections are a product of both ecological processes affecting
 host-parasite encounter rates and evolutionary dynamics affecting host
 susceptibility. However, few studies examine natural infection variation
 from both ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Here, we describe the
 ecological and evolutionary factors generating variation in infection
 rates by a tapeworm (Schistocephalus solidus) in a vertebrate host, the
 threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). To explore ecological
 aspects of infection, we measured tapeworm prevalence in Canadian
 stickleback inhabiting two distinct environments: marine and freshwater.
 Consistent with ecological control of infection, the tapeworm is very rare
 in marine environments, even though marine fish are highly susceptible.
 Conversely, commonly infected freshwater stickleback exhibit substantial
 resistance in controlled laboratory trials, suggesting that high exposure
 risk overwhelms their recently evolved resistance. We also tested for
 parasite adaptation to its host by performing transcontinental reciprocal
 infections, using stickleback and tapeworm populations from Europe and
 western Canada. More infections occurred in same-continent host-parasite
 combinations, indicating parasite “local” adaptation, at least on the
 scale of continents. However, the recently evolved immunity of freshwater
 hosts applies to both local and foreign parasites. The pattern of
 adaptation described here is not wholly compatible with either of the
 common models of host-parasite coevolution (i.e., matching infection or
 targeted recognition). Instead, we propose a hybrid, eco-evolutionary
 model to explain the remarkable pattern of global host resistance and
 local parasite infectivity.
description: Natural tapeworm
 infection prevalenceField data from multiple
 populations of threespine stickleback on Vancouver Island, Canada. Data
 include sampling site, Schistocephalus solidus infection prevalence, std
 err of infection prevalence, and sample size (N).Marine_Lake_multiPop_forDryad.csvLaboratory infection dataThis file describes results from exposing threespine stickleback to controlled doses of Schistocephalus solidus in a lab setting. We describe whether fish are from lake vs marine sites, continent of collection, population name, fish family within population, tapeworm origin, tapeworm family, fish sex, fish mass, infection intensity, infection status, parasite mass, parasite index, and infection intensities of wild-caught parents of experimental families.Combined_Ger_TX_Rob_Dryad_data_maternal.csv
DOI: 10.11588/duerer.online.69789a8a2a607
title: Grabtragung Christi, https://d-nb.info/gnd/1184530351
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rq00r
title: Data from: Maternal corticosterone exposure has transgenerational effects on grand-offspring

description: The hormone fluctuations that an animal experiences during ovulation can
 have lifelong effects on developing offspring. These hormones may act as
 an adaptive mechanism, allowing offspring to be ‘pre-programmed’ to
 survive in an unstable environment. Here, we used a transgenerational
 approach to examine the effects of elevated maternal corticosterone (CORT)
 on the future reproductive success of female offspring. We show that
 female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) exposed to embryonic CORT
 produce daughters that have equal reproductive success (clutch sizes,
 fertility, hatching success) compared with the daughters produced from
 untreated mothers, but their offspring had accelerated post-hatching
 growth rates and were significantly heavier by nutritional independence.
 Although there was no significant effect on primary offspring sex ratio,
 females from CORT-treated mothers produced significantly female-biased
 clutches by nutritional independence. To the best of our knowledge, this
 is the first record of a transgenerational sex ratio bias in response to
 elevated maternal CORT in any avian species.
description: Khan et al. Raw
 DataRaw data used in this
 publication. This includes clutch information, juvenile morphometrics, and
 survival.
DOI: 10.15468/6ntgyb
title: The type locality of the South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea (Aves: Charadriiformes: Sternidae), with designation of a lectotype

description: This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Carlos, Caio J., Voisin, Jean-François (2013): The type locality of the South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea (Aves: Charadriiformes: Sternidae), with designation of a lectotype. Zoologia (Curitiba) 30 (3): 356-358, DOI: 10.1590/s1984-46702013000300017, URL: https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-46702013000300017ABSTRACT. The type locality of the South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea, has long been considered to be the state of Santa Catarina in South Brazil. This conclusion was probably based on two syntypes, from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, one from Laguna and the other from an unspecified locality. The latter was probably shot on the coast of Rio de Įaneiro. A recent molecular study has shown that Brazilian and Patagonian populations of S. hirundinacea are not completely panmictic, though genetic differentiation between them is low. No data from the Falkland Islands and Pacific coast populations have been available for comparison. If future analysis shows that Pacific and/or Falkland/Malvinas populations are genetically isolated from the Brazil-Patagonian ones, the name S. hirundinacea would apply only to birds from the latter populations. Given that the two syntypes were collected at two widely spaced localities, doubts exist as to the precise locality where one syntype was taken, and to clear up uncertainties, a lectotype of S. hirundinacea is herein designated.