cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.g056v
title: Data from: Adult dietary protein has age- and context-dependent effects on male post-copulatory performance

description: The highly-conserved effect of dietary protein restriction on life-span
 and ageing is observed in both sexes and across a vast range of taxa. This
 extension of life-span is frequently accompanied by a reduction in female
 fecundity and it has been hypothesised that individuals may reallocate
 resources away from reproduction and into somatic maintenance. However,
 effects of dietary protein restriction on male reproduction are less
 consistent, suggesting that these effects may depend on other
 environmental parameters. Using the neriid fly, Telostylinus
 angusticollis, we examined age-specific effects of adult dietary protein
 restriction on male post-copulatory reproductive performance (fecundity
 and offspring viability). To explore the context-dependence of these
 effects, we simultaneously manipulated male larval diet and adult mating
 history. We found that protein-restricted males sired less viable
 offspring at young ages, but offspring viability increased with paternal
 age and eventually exceeded that of fully-fed males. The number of eggs
 laid by females was not affected by male dietary protein, whereas egg
 hatching success was subject to a complex interaction of male adult diet,
 age, larval diet, and mating history. These findings suggest that effects
 of protein restriction on male reproduction are highly context-dependent,
 and cannot be explained by a simple reallocation of resources from
 reproduction to somatic maintenance. Rather, these effects appear to
 involve changes in the scheduling of male reproductive investment with
 age.
description: Dryad data
 fileThis csv data file
 contains all raw data collected from the lab experiment that was then
 analysed in R.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.j4d10
title: Data from: Individual aggression, but not winner-loser effects, predicts social rank in male domestic fowl

description: Many factors can affect the probability for an individual to obtain a high
 social rank, including size, weaponry, and behavioral attributes such as
 aggression. Recent experiences of winning or losing can also affect the
 chances of winning future contests, commonly referred to as “winner–loser
 effects”. Individuals often differ in behavior in a consistent way,
 including in aggression, thereby showing differences in personality.
 However, the relative importance of recent experience and aspects of
 personality in determining rank, as well as the extent to which winning or
 losing affects aggression, has rarely been studied. Here, we investigate
 these questions using male domestic fowl. We matched males for body size,
 comb size, and aggression in pair-wise duels to: 1) study the effect of
 contest outcome on aggression and 2) compare the effect of individual
 aggression and contest experience on future social status in small groups.
 We found that aggression was a highly repeatable personality trait and
 that aggression increased after winning and decreased after losing.
 Nevertheless, such winner–loser effects were not enough to increase the
 odds of becoming dominant in a small group. Instead, aggressiveness
 measured prior to a contest experience best predicted future rank.
 Boldness and exploration did not predict rank and of the 2, only boldness
 was positively correlated with aggressiveness. We conclude that for male
 domestic fowl in contests among phenotypically matched contestants,
 aggressiveness is more important for obtaining high rank than winner–loser
 effects, or other aspects of personality.
description: winner_loser_data
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pb271
title: Data from: Interactions among roots, mycorrhizae and free-living microbial communities differentially impact soil carbon processes

description: Plant roots, their associated microbial community and free-living soil
 microbes interact to regulate the movement of carbon from the soil to the
 atmosphere, one of the most important and least understood fluxes of
 terrestrial carbon. Our inadequate understanding of how plant–microbial
 interactions alter soil carbon decomposition may lead to poor model
 predictions of terrestrial carbon feedbacks to the atmosphere. Roots,
 mycorrhizal fungi and free-living soil microbes can alter soil carbon
 decomposition through exudation of carbon into soil. Exudates of simple
 carbon compounds can increase microbial activity because microbes are
 typically carbon limited. When both roots and mycorrhizal fungi are
 present in the soil, they may additively increase carbon decomposition.
 However, when mycorrhizas are isolated from roots, they may limit soil
 carbon decomposition by competing with free-living decomposers for
 resources. We manipulated the access of roots and mycorrhizal fungi to
 soil in situ in a temperate mixed deciduous forest. We added 13C-labelled
 substrate to trace metabolized carbon in respiration and measured
 carbon-degrading microbial extracellular enzyme activity and soil carbon
 pools. We used our data in a mechanistic soil carbon decomposition model
 to simulate and compare the effects of root and mycorrhizal fungal
 presence on soil carbon dynamics over longer time periods. Contrary to
 what we predicted, root and mycorrhizal biomass did not interact to
 additively increase microbial activity and soil carbon degradation. The
 metabolism of 13C-labelled starch was highest when root biomass was high
 and mycorrhizal biomass was low. These results suggest that mycorrhizas
 may negatively interact with the free-living microbial community to
 influence soil carbon dynamics, a hypothesis supported by our enzyme
 results. Our steady-state model simulations suggested that root presence
 increased mineral-associated and particulate organic carbon pools, while
 mycorrhizal fungal presence had a greater influence on particulate than
 mineral-associated organic carbon pools. Synthesis. Our results suggest
 that the activity of enzymes involved in organic matter decomposition was
 contingent upon root–mycorrhizal–microbial interactions. Using our
 experimental data in a decomposition simulation model, we show that
 root–mycorrhizal–microbial interactions may have longer-term legacy
 effects on soil carbon sequestration. Overall, our study suggests that
 roots stimulate microbial activity in the short term, but contribute to
 soil carbon storage over longer periods of time.
description: Moore 2015 Final
 DataSoil respiration, soil
 carbon pools, and enzyme activities. The first row is a header and units
 of measurement are included in this row. In "exclusion group",
 R=roots and M= mycorrhizae. In "carbon label", C=control
 (water-only) and L=labeled starch addition.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9bk88
title: Data from: Sex allocation patterns across cooperatively breeding birds do not support predictions of the repayment hypothesis

description: The repayment hypothesis predicts that reproductive females in cooperative
 breeding systems overproduce the helping sex. Thanks to well-documented
 examples of this predicted sex ratio bias, repayment has been considered
 an important driver of variation in sex allocation patterns. Here we test
 this hypothesis using data on population brood sex ratios and facultative
 sex allocation from 28 cooperatively breeding bird species. We find that
 biased sex ratios of helpers do not correlate with production biases in
 brood sex ratios, contrary to predictions. We also test whether females
 facultatively produce the helping sex in response to a deficiency of help
 (i.e., when they have fewer or no helpers). Although this is observed in a
 few species, it is not a significant trend overall, with a mean effect
 size close to zero. We conclude that, surprisingly, repayment does not
 appear to be a widespread influence on sex ratios in cooperatively
 breeding birds. We discuss possible explanations for our results and
 encourage further examination of the repayment model.
description: coop brood
 srBrood (mprop_brood) and
 helper (mprop_help) sex ratios, expressed as proportions of males, from
 published studies of cooperatively breeding birds. See references from
 appendices for full references. See manuscript for criteria used to
 determine data quality (3 = high, 1 = low). See Table A1 for abbreviations
 used in helper_effects (UK = ?, these species were excluded from
 restricted analysis; NP species were excluded from all analyses). Created
 in Microsoft Excel.effect
 sizesEffect sizes used in
 meta-analysis of sex ratio adjustment in response to a lack of helpers in
 cooperatively breeding birds. Test statistics used to calculate effect
 size are provided, except where these were taken directly from a previous
 publication (detailed in technique column). Magnitude of effect given in
 effect_size; effect_exp includes positive/negative direction relative to
 prediction (biased production of helpful sex in response to deficiency of
 help). Variance is given in v and used to calculate weight (1/v) for
 calculation of weighted mean. Columns containing max and/or min are the
 same as for effect_exp but with the effect sizes of unknown direction
 treated as positive or negative respectively. Overall weighted mean and
 confidence interval reported in the manuscript.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pr577
title: Data from: Do unattractive friends make you look better? Context-dependent male mating preferences in the guppy

description: Recent theory predicts that in species where females tend to mate with the
 relatively most ornamented males, males may increase their attractiveness
 to females, and hence mating success, by preferentially associating with
 females that are surrounded by less ornamented competitors. Despite this
 prediction, we still lack explicit experimental evidence that males
 strategically prefer females surrounded by less attractive competitors to
 maximise their relative attractiveness In this paper we provide a
 comprehensive test of this hypothesis in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata),
 a species where female’s perception of a male’s attractiveness depends on
 his coloration relative to that of surrounding males. We found that males
 preferentially associated with females that were surrounded by relatively
 drab competitors, and that the strength of an individual male’s preference
 was negatively correlated with his level of ornamentation. A series of
 control experiments made it possible to exclude the potentially
 confounding effects of male-male competition or social motivations when
 drawing these conclusions. The ability of males to choose social context
 to increase their relative attractiveness has important evolutionary
 consequences, for example by contributing towards the maintenance of
 variability in male sexual ornamentation despite the strong directional
 selection exerted by female preferences.
description: Experiment
 IExperiment I (male mate
 choice for experienced and naive males in absence and presence of
 females)exp
 I.txtExperiment
 IIExperiment II (male mate
 choice in presence of females only and with stimulus males
 hidden)exp
 II.txtExperiment
 IIIExperiment III (male
 coloration and aggressive behaviour)exp III
 (agressiveness).txt
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.nm0vn
title: Data from: Sexual and natural selection in the evolution of extended phenotypes: the use of green nesting material in starlings

description: Although sexual selection is typically considered the predominant force
 driving the evolution of ritualized sexual behaviors, natural selection
 may also play an important and often underappreciated role. The use of
 green aromatic plants among nesting birds has been interpreted as a
 component of extended phenotype that evolved either via natural selection
 due to potential sanitary functions, or via sexual selection as a signal
 of male attractiveness. Here we compared both hypotheses using comparative
 methods in starlings, a group where this behavior is widespread. We found
 that the use of green plants was positively related to male-biased size
 dimorphism, and that it was most likely to occur among cavity-nesting
 species. These results suggest that this behavior is likely favored by
 sexual selection, but also related to its sanitary use in response to
 higher parasite loads in cavities. We speculate that the use of green
 plants in starlings may be facilitated by cavity nesting, and was
 subsequently co-opted as a sexual signal by males. Our results represent
 an example of how an extended phenotypic component of males becomes
 sexually selected by females. Thus, both natural and sexual selection are
 necessary to fully understand the evolution of ritualized behaviors
 involved in courtship.
description: Life history and
 morphological traits of starlingsRubalcaba_et_al.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rj980
title: Data from: Changes in morphological and elastic properties of patellar tendon in athletes with unilateral patellar tendinopathy and their relationships with pain and functional disability

description: Background: Patellar tendinopathy (PT) is one of the most common knee
 disorders among athletes. Changes in morphology and elasticity of the
 painful tendon and how these relate to the self-perceived pain and
 dysfunction remain unclear. Objectives: To compare the morphology and
 elastic properties of patellar tendons between athlete with and without
 unilateral PT and to examine its association with self-perceived pain and
 dysfunction. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 33 male athletes (20
 healthy and 13 with unilateral PT) were enrolled. The morphology and
 elastic properties of the patellar tendon were assessed by the grey and
 elastography mode of supersonic shear imaging (SSI) technique while the
 intensity of pressure pain, self-perceived pain and dysfunction were
 quantified with a 10-lb force to the most painful site and the Victorian
 Institute of Sport Assessment-patella (VISA-P) questionnaire,
 respectively. Results: In athletes with unilateral PT, the painful tendons
 had higher shear elastic modulus (SEM) and larger tendon than the
 non-painful side (p&lt;0.05) or the dominant side of the healthy
 athletes (p&lt;0.05). Significant correlations were found between
 tendon SEM ratio (SEM of painful over non-painful tendon) and the
 intensity of pressure pain (rho = 0.62; p = 0.024), VISA-P scores (rho =
 −0.61; p = 0.026), and the sub-scores of the VISA-P scores on going down
 stairs, lunge, single leg hopping and squatting (rho ranged from −0.63 to
 −0.67; p&lt;0.05). Conclusions: Athletes with unilateral PT had
 stiffer and larger tendon on the painful side than the non-painful side
 and the dominant side of healthy athletes. No significant differences on
 the patellar tendon morphology and elastic properties were detected
 between the dominant and non-dominant knees of the healthy control. The
 ratio of the SEM of painful to non-painful sides was associated with pain
 and dysfunction among athletes with unilateral PT.
description: Plos_data_setData set for "Changes in morphological and elastic properties of patellar tendon in athletes with unilateral patellar tendinopathy and their relationships with pain and functional disability"
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.d08f016
title: Data from: Latitudinal pattern of flowering synchrony in an invasive wind-pollinated plant

description: Flowering synchrony can play an important role in plants’ reproductive
 success, which is essential for the successful establishment and spread of
 invasive plants. Although flowering synchrony has been found to be closely
 related to climatic factors, the effects of variation in such factors
 along latitudinal gradients on flowering synchrony, and the role of
 flowering synchrony in the reproductive success of invading populations
 remain largely unexplored. In a two-year field study, we examined the
 latitudinal variation of flowering phenology, especially flowering
 synchrony, in the invasive plant, Spartina alterniflora, along coastal
 China, and its relationship with population seed set across three climatic
 zones. We found that first flowering date was delayed, and flowering
 synchrony increased with increasing latitude. Flowering synchrony was
 negatively related to temperature during flowering season but not to soil
 properties or precipitation, suggesting that climate has shaped the
 latitudinal pattern of flowering synchrony. Moreover, a positive
 correlation between flowering synchrony and seed set across latitudes
 indicates the possible role of flowering synchrony in the latitudinal
 pattern of sexual reproduction in S. alterniflora. These results suggest
 that, in addition to the effects of climate on the growth of invasive
 species, climatic factors can play an important role in the invasion
 success of alien plants by regulating the flowering synchrony and thus the
 reproductive success of invasive plants.
description: Flowering phenology of
 Spartina alterniflora and enviromental factors along coastal
 Chinadata.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.k61qv
title: Data from: Thermal effects on survival and reproductive performance vary according to personality type

description: Understanding the ecological and evolutionary consequences of individual
 behavioral variation has become a major focus in behavioral ecology, yet
 we still know remarkably little about how abiotic and biotic factors
 influence personality-dependent fitness trade-offs in naturally occurring
 systems. In particular, fitness trade-offs associated with abiotic factors
 remain underrepresented in the animal personality literature. Here, we
 examine the interacting effects of personality and temperature on survival
 and reproduction—both at the individual and colony level—using the
 socially polymorphic spider Anelosimus studiosus as a model system.
 Overall, temperature had a profound effect on survival and reproduction,
 but the effect differed according to both individual personality and the
 personality composition of colonies. Temperature was positively correlated
 with mortality rates but negatively correlated with reproductive rates in
 aggressive individuals, whereas the opposite was true in docile
 individuals. Colonies composed of either all aggressive or all docile
 individuals suffered reduced reproductive rates in high and low
 temperatures, respectively. In contrast, colonies composed of a mixture of
 aggressive and docile individuals performed equally well at both high and
 low temperatures, suggesting that some aspect of colony living helps
 buffer individuals with ill-suited personalities from environmental
 conditions that would otherwise lead to their demise. Our study
 demonstrates the need to consider both abiotic and biotic (i.e., social)
 context when assessing the impact of personality on fitness.
description: Individual_performance_DRYADResults from an experimental lab study assessing the impact of temperature on fitness in spiders with different personalities. Data include day of death (in cases where individuals died before the end of a 40 day period) and number of egg cases produced by survivors.Colony_performance_DRYADPerformance (survival and reproduction) in spider colonies of different personality compositions exposed to different temperature treatments. Data includes the number of egg cases produced by each colony.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b6m41
title: Data from: Winter territory prospecting is associated with life-history stage but not activity in a passerine

description: Finding a high quality territory is essential for many animals to
 reproduce successfully. Despite its importance for fitness, we know little
 about the process of territory prospecting in wild birds, and whether
 individual traits and behaviours, such as personality, co-vary with
 territory prospecting. Here, we use long-term data from a wild, insular
 house sparrow Passer domesticus population to test three hypotheses about
 territory fidelity and prospecting: (1) House sparrows show high territory
 fidelity between years and also during winter. (2) Individuals will
 prospect for a breeding territory during their first winter whereas older,
 more experienced individuals will keep a territory from previous years and
 will, therefore, show no or reduced winter territory prospecting. (3) More
 active behavioural types will prospect more than less active behavioural
 types. We use data from four winters from automatically, daily recorded
 nest-box visits of 188 birds of known age. The number of nest-boxes that
 each individual visited within each winter was used as a proxy of winter
 territory prospecting. We show that house sparrows visit multiple
 nest-boxes during their first winter, whereas older individuals keep
 territories year-round and, potentially because of this, indeed show
 reduced winter territory prospecting. Activity was not associated with the
 number of nest-boxes visited. Further research is needed to investigate
 whether time of territory and mate acquisition differs among individuals
 and the possible effect on lifetime fitness.
description: Sanchez-Tojar_et_al_2016_JABThis database contains the necessary data to run the all the GLMs and GLMMs presented in: Sanchez-Tojar et al. 2016 Winter territory prospecting is associated with life-history stage but not activity in a passerine, published in Journal of Avian Biology.
DOI: 10.15468/78vtxn
title: The Pleistocene Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the island of Rhodes (Greece) and their palaeoecological significance

description: This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Psarras, Christos, Merle, Didier, Moissette, Pierre, Koskeridou, Efterpi (2024): The Pleistocene Conidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the island of Rhodes (Greece) and their palaeoecological significance. Geodiversitas 46 (11): 423-444, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2024v46a11, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/g2024v46a11.pdfABSTRACTFossil Conidae from Greece were recently studied in Late Miocene deposits and revealed a very diverse tropical fauna of 33 species, but this diversity decreased during the Pliocene (around six species). From the Pleistocene, four species were previously recorded in the island of Rhodes Conus (Lautoconus) ventricosus Gmelin, 1791 (synonym of Conus (Lautoconus) mediterraneus Hwass in Bruguière, 1792), Chelyconus pelagicus (sensu Chirli & Forli, 2011, non Brocchi, 1814), Chelyconus striatulus (sensu Chirli & Forli, 2011, non Brocchi, 1814) and Lithoconus mercati (sensu Chirli & Forli, 2011, non Brocchi, 1814).To update our knowledge on the conids from Rhodes, we studied material from the Tsampika section (265 ka - 140 ka corresponding from MIS 8 to MIS 6). We used ultraviolet light to observe intraspecific variations in the residual colour patterns. Three species are identified: Conus (Lautoconus) ventricosus rhodesensis n. subsp., Conus (Lautoconus) sp. and Conus (Monteiroconus) tsampikaensis n. sp. [previously assigned to C. (M.) mercati Brocchi, 1814]. Based on information about the habitat of the extant Conus (Monteiroconus) species, living today in West Africa and Caribbean in sea surface temperatures above 18 °C, we can hypothesise that the age of the specimens is within the interglacial period of MIS 7e to MIS 7c (241.8-212.9 (±0.4) ka).The different conid assemblages between the interglacial periods MIS 7 (Conus (Lautoconus) ventricosus rhodesensis n. subsp., Conus (Lautoconus) sp., and Conus (Monteiroconus) tsampikaensis n. sp.) and MIS 5 (“ Conus (Lautoconus) ventricosus ” Gmelin, 1791, Conus (Chelyconus) ermineus Born, 1778 and Conus (Monteiroconus) tabidus Reeve, 1844) in the Mediterranean suggest a colonisation of different species during specific interglacial periods, and the subsequent disappearance of most of those during the glacial periods.