cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h61dj
title: Data from: Does intraspecific competition promote variation? A test via synthesis

description: Competitive diversification, that is, when increasing intraspecific
 competition promotes population niche expansion, is commonly invoked in
 evolutionary studies and currently plays a central role in how we
 conceptualize the process of adaptive diversification. Despite the
 frequency with which this idea is cited, the empirical evidence for the
 process is somewhat limited, and the findings of these studies have yet to
 be weighed objectively through synthesis. Here, we sought to fill this gap
 by reviewing the existing literature and collecting the data necessary to
 assess the evidence for competition as a diversifying force. Additionally,
 we sought to test a more recent hypothesis, which suggests that
 competition can act to both promote and inhibit dietary diversification
 depending on the degree to which a consumer depletes its resources. The
 surprising result of this synthesis was that increasing competition did
 not have a mean positive effect on population-level diet breadth or the
 degree of individual specialization. Instead, we found that increasing
 intraspecific competition had a restricting effect on population-level
 diet breadth in as many cases as it had a diversifying effect. This wide
 disparity in the effect of competition on consumer diet variation was
 negatively related to a metric for consumer resource depletion.
 Altogether, these findings call into question a long-standing assumption
 of basic evolutionary models and lend some support to recent theoretical
 predictions. Specifically, these findings support the idea that
 competition is primarily diversifying for species with a small effect (per
 unit biomass) on their resources and that resource depletion limits the
 diversifying effect of competition for consumers with larger ecological
 effects.
description: Meta-analysis data and
 scriptTwo files related to the
 manuscript "Does intraspecific competition promote variation? A test
 via synthesis" by AW Jones and DM Post: 1) A file containing the raw
 data collected for the meta-analysis as well as data summaries. 2) An R
 script outlining the analyses performed on the data.Jones and Post Meta-analysis
 Dryad.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7bm4d
title: Data from: Effects of divergent migratory strategies on access to resources for Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer)

description: Populations of large herbivores frequently display divergent migratory
 strategies, a likely consequence of the trade-off between the costs and
 benefits of migration. Globally, physical and environmental barriers
 disrupt migrations, leading to increased residency, which can have
 detrimental consequences. In the Okavango Delta, Botswana, veterinary
 cordon fences erected in 1982 may have caused enforced residency in some
 subpopulations of Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer). We used data from
 GPS-enabled collars fitted to females in 1 resident and 1 migratory
 subpopulation of buffalo to test the hypotheses that 1) residents have
 access to less-productive forage than migrants, 2) residents occupy
 smaller home ranges and live in smaller herds than migrants, 3)
 reproductive productivity is lower in resident herds, and 4) residents
 have poorer body condition than migrants. Forage characteristics varied
 between resident and migrant ranges, both between and within seasons.
 Reproductive productivity and body condition did not differ between
 subpopulations, but residents occupied smaller home ranges during the
 rainy season and lived in smaller herds than migrants. Enforced residency
 could have decreased carrying capacity when the fence was erected, so
 resident buffalo may have adapted by forming smaller herds, allowing them
 to maintain their body condition. The area that residents occupied was
 located in a more central region of the Okavango Delta than that of
 migrants; therefore, this area would receive higher levels of nutrients
 from the annual flood, which would have increased heterogeneity in
 resident ranges, potentially compensating for effects of disrupted
 migrations. These results highlight the importance of conserving
 landscapes with spatially and temporally heterogeneous resources to buffer
 effects of anthropogenic activities such as artificial barriers on
 migrations.
description: Divergent migration
 dataThese data are from one
 migratory and one resident subpopulation of Cape buffalo in the Okavango
 Delta, Botswana. For each subpopulation, there are data on the quality and
 physical characteristics of forage available in different seasons, the
 home range and herd sizes, body condition scores and demographic
 ratios.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.fs262s48
title: Data from: Review of the sawfly genus Empria (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinidae) in Japan

description: The following eleven Empria species are reported from Japan: E. candidata
 (Fallén, 1808), E. japonica Heidemaa & Prous, 2011, E. liturata
 (Gmelin, 1790), E. loktini Ermolenko, 1971, E. plana (Jakowlew, 1891), E.
 quadrimaculata Takeuchi, 1952, E. rubicola Ermolenko, 1971, E. tridens
 (Konow, 1896), E. tridentis Lee & Ryu, 1996, E. honshuana Prous
 & Heidemaa, sp. n., and E. takeuchii Prous & Heidemaa sp.
 n. The lectotypes of Poecilosoma pallipes Matsumura, 1912, Empria itelmena
 Malaise, 1931, Tenthredo candidata Fallén, 1808, and Tenthredo
 (Poecilostoma) hybrida Erichson, 1851 are designated. Empria itelmena
 Malaise, 1931 (syn. n.) is synonymized with E. plana (Jakowlew, 1891).
 Poecilosoma pallipes Matsumura, 1912, previously assigned to Empria, is
 transferred to Monsoma, creating Monsoma pallipes (Matsumura, 1912), comb.
 n. Results of phylogenetic analyses using mitochondrial (COI) and nuclear
 (ITS1 and ITS2) sequences are also provided.
description: Occurrence data for
 Japanese Empria and Monsoma (Hymenoptera,
 Tenthredinidae)Contains occurrence data
 and GenBank accession numbers for the studied specimens. Column headings
 are identical to Darwin Core terms
 (http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/index.htm), except GenBank_COI,
 GenBank_ITS1, and GenBank_ITS2. These Column headings refer to GenBank
 accessions of cytochrome c oxidase I, internal transcribed spacer 1, and
 internal transcribed spacer 2 genes, respectively.empria_japan.xls
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kr5j71n0
title: Data from: Genetic diversity and divergence among coastal and offshore reefs in a hard coral depend on geographic discontinuity and oceanic currents.

description: Understanding the evolutionary processes that have shaped existing
 patterns of genetic diversity of reef-building corals over broad scales is
 required to inform long-term conservation planning. Genetic structure and
 diversity of the mass-spawning hard coral, Acropora tenuis, were assessed
 with seven DNA microsatellite loci from a series of isolated and
 discontinuous coastal and offshore reef systems in northwest Australia.
 Significant subdivision was detected among all sites (FST = 0.062, RST =
 0.090), with the majority of this variation due to genetic differentiation
 among reef systems. In addition, genetic divergence was detected between
 the coastal and offshore zones that cannot be adequately explained by
 geographic distance, indicating that transport of larvae between these
 zones via large-scale oceanic currents is rare even over time frames that
 account for connectivity over multiple generations. Significant
 differences in the amount of genetic diversity at each system were also
 detected, with higher diversity observed on the lower latitude reefs. The
 implications are that these reef systems of northwest Australia are not
 only demographically independent, but that they will also have to rely on
 their own genetic diversity to adapt to environmental change over the next
 few decades to centuries.
description: genetic diversity and
 divergence_Atenuis @ all sites NWA_rawdata
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1hr49
title: Data from: Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania

description: Appendicular skeletal traits are used to quantify changes in morphological
 disparity and morphospace occupation across the fish–tetrapod transition
 and to explore the informativeness of different data partitions in
 phylogeny reconstruction. Anterior appendicular data yield trees that
 differ little from those built from the full character set, whilst
 posterior appendicular data result in considerable loss of phylogenetic
 resolution and tree branch rearrangements. Overall, there is a significant
 incongruence in the signals associated with pectoral and pelvic data. The
 appendicular skeletons of fish and tetrapods attain similar levels of
 morphological disparity (at least when data are rarefied at the maximum
 sample size for fish in our study) and occupy similarly sized regions of
 morphospace. However, fish appear more dispersed in morphospace than
 tetrapods do. All taxa show a heterogeneous distribution in morphospace,
 and there is a clear separation between fish and tetrapods despite the
 presence of several evolutionarily intermediate taxa.
description: AppendixS1Pairwise Euclidean distances and Principal Coordinates scores derived from entire appendicular data and from anterior and posterior data partitionsAppendixS2Data matrix as a NEXUS file for PAUPTableS1Results of NPMANOVA and ANOSIM tests
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.67r03
title: Data from: Phylogenetic studies in Smallanthus (Millerieae, Asteraceae): a contribution from morphology

description: We present a cladistic analysis of all the species of Smallanthus. Six
 taxa within Rumfordia, Ichthyothere, Acanthospermum and Tridax served as
 outgroups. We evaluated the monophyly and the relationships between the
 species of Smallanthus through a maximum parsimony study based on
 morphological data. The matrix included 31 qualitative characters from
 floral and vegetative parts of the specimens. We also explored the
 phylogenetic significance of treating quantitative characters as
 continuous. Only one most parsimonious tree was obtained. In agreement
 with previous phylogenetic studies based on molecular data, we recovered a
 monophyletic Smallanthus. The presence of ray corollas, densely pubescent
 at the base, was the synapomorphy that defined Smallanthus. Smallanthus
 microcephalus and two other major clades were recovered. The first clade
 included S. glabratus, S. fruticosus, S. jelskii and S. pyramidalis, while
 the second one contained the remaining species of Smallanthus. The
 analysis recovered one species of Rumfordia as sister to Smallanthus. We
 present a new combination, Smallanthus cocuyensis, based on morphological
 analysis of the type specimen.
description: Data matrices used in
 the phylogenetic analysis of Smallanthus.Data
 matrices.pdf
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.g7253h2
title: Data from: Functional redundancy in bird community decreases with riparian forest width reduction

description: 1. Riparian ecosystems are suffering anthropogenic threats that reduce
 biodiversity and undermine ecosystem services. However, there is a great
 deal of uncertainty about the way species composition of assemblages is
 related to ecosystem function, especially in a landscape fragmentation
 context. 2. Here we assess the impact of habitat loss and disturbance on
 Functional Diversity (FD) components Functional Redundancy (FRed),
 Functional Evenness (FEve) and Functional Richness (FRic) of riparian
 forest bird assemblages to evaluate (1) how FD components respond to
 riparian forest width reduction and vegetation disturbance; (2) the
 existence of thresholds within these relationships; (3) which of the main
 birds diet guild (frugivores, insectivores and omnivores) respond to such
 thresholds. We predict that FD components will be affected negatively and
 non-linearly by riparian changes. However, guilds could have different
 responses due to differences of species sensitivity to fragmentation and
 disturbance. We expect to find thresholds in FD responses, because
 fragmentation and disturbance drive loss of specific FD components. 3. Our
 results show that FRed and FEve were linearly affected by width and
 disturbance of riparian habitats, respectively. FRed was significantly
 lower in riparian forests assemblages below 400 m wide and FEve was
 significantly higher above 60% disturbance. These responses of FD were
 also followed to the decline in insectivores and frugivores richness in
 riparian forests most affected by these changes. 4. Consequently, our
 study suggests communities do not tolerate reduction in riparian forest
 width or disturbance intensification without negative impact on FD, and
 this becomes more critical for riparian area less than 400 m wide or with
 more than 60% disturbance. This minimum riparian width required to
 maintain FRed is greater than the minimum width required for riparian
 forests by Brazilian law. Thus, is important to consider mechanisms to
 expand riparian habitats and reduce the disturbance intensity in riparian
 forests so that riparian bird community FD may be effectively conserved.
description: Riparian_birds_data.xml
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bc558
title: Data from: Blue whale population structure along the eastern South Pacific Ocean: evidence of more than one population

description: Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) were among the most intensively
 exploited species of whales in the world. As a consequence of this intense
 exploitation, blue whale sightings off the coast of Chile were uncommon by
 the end of the 20th century. In 2004, a feeding and nursing ground was
 reported in southern Chile (SCh). With the aim to investigate the genetic
 identity and relationship of these Chilean blue whales to those in other
 Southern Hemisphere areas, 60 biopsy samples were collected from blue
 whales in SCh between 2003 and 2009. These samples were genotyped at seven
 microsatellite loci and the mitochondrial control region was sequenced,
 allowing us to identify 52 individuals. To investigate the genetic
 identity of this suspected remnant population, we compared these 52
 individuals to blue whales from Antarctica (ANT, n = 96), Northern Chile
 (NCh, n = 19) and the eastern tropical Pacific (ETP, n = 31). No
 significant differentiation in haplotype frequencies (mtDNA) or among
 genotypes (nDNA) was found between SCh, NCh and ETP, while significant
 differences were found between those three areas and Antarctica for both
 the mitochondrial and microsatellite analyses. Our results suggest at
 least two breeding population units or subspecies exist, which is also
 supported by other lines of evidence such as morphometrics and acoustics.
 The lack of differences detected between SCh/NCh/ETP areas supports the
 hypothesis that eastern South Pacific blue whales are using the ETP area
 as a possible breeding area. Considering the small population sizes
 previously reported for the SCh area, additional conservation measures and
 monitoring of this population should be developed and prioritized.
description: Blue whale genotypes,
 haplotypes and sexThe excel file contain
 data from Antarctic and South east Pacific blue whales. The first column
 corresponds to the sample name, second column to the area in which the
 whale was sampled (described in the article), third column has information
 about the coordinates of the sample (for SCh blue whales, all of them have
 the same coordinates because were taken in an small area). The fourth
 column corresponds to the date when the biopsy was taken. From the fifth
 to the 18th column corresponds to 7 micro satellites loci separated for
 each allele. The column 19 corresponds to the sex of each whale, the 20th
 to the haplotype name cited in (LeDuc et al. 2007, Sremba et al. 2012
 & Torres-Florez et al. 2014) and column 20th corresponds to the
 Genbank accession number of each haplotype.Torres-Florez et
 al._2014_Dryad.xlsxinfile
 MicrosatsMigrate infile for
 microsats datainfile
 mtDNAInfile mtDNA for Migrate
 analysisParmfile Migrate
 (microsats)Migrate parmfile for
 microsats dataparmfile
 MicrosatsParmfile Migrate
 (mtDNA)Migrate parmfile for
 mtDNA dataparmfile
 mtDNASamples
 sequenciesSamples with its mtDNA
 sequence. The number of sample is associate with the same number at the
 genotype samples fileSample
 seq.csv
DOI: 10.15468/dl.mhpw8c
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 46883 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 "and" : [
 "TaxonKey is one of (Nereididae, Sabellidae, Syllidae, Serpulidae, Capitellidae, Spionidae, Cirratulidae, Balanidae, Caprellidae, Carcinidae, Cheluridae, Cymothoidae, Varunidae, Euphausiidae, Ischyroceridae, Corophiidae, Limnoriidae, Aoridae, Talitridae, Palaemonidae, Sphaeromatidae, Paranthuridae, Hyalidae, Penaeidae, Mastigiidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, Panopeidae, Mysidae, Stenothoidae, Vesiculariidae, Electridae, Bugulidae, Celleporidae, Cryptosulidae, Bitectiporidae, Cribrilinidae, Nolellidae, Schizoporellidae, Sinoflustridae, Candidae, Watersiporidae, Sciaenidae, Ascidiidae, Styelidae, Cionidae, Clavelinidae, Cyprinidae, Moronidae, Didemnidae, Sparidae, Perophoridae, Engraulidae, Gobiidae, Latidae, Mugilidae, Pyuridae, Molgulidae, Muraenidae, Cichlidae, Poeciliidae, Polyclinidae, Blenniidae, Scorpaenidae, Soleidae, Uranoscopidae, Bougainvilliidae, Blackfordiidae, Cassiopeidae, Cladonematidae, Hydractiniidae, Cordylophoridae, Diadumenidae, Tubulariidae, Aiptasiidae, Campanulariidae, Pennariidae, Dendrophylliidae, Bolinopsidae, Mytilidae, Calyptraeidae, Teredinidae, Dotidae, Eubranchidae, Tethydidae, Ellobiidae, Ostreidae, Tateidae, Muricidae, Veneridae, Polyceridae, Semelidae, Trinchesiidae, Kareniaceae, Peridiniaceae, Amphoriscidae, Bonnemaisoniaceae, Caulacanthaceae, Caulerpaceae, Codiaceae, Dasyaceae, Gracilariaceae, Halymeniaceae, Cystocloniaceae, Solieriaceae, Rhodomelaceae, Sargassaceae, Ulvaceae, Alariaceae, Scombridae, Serranidae)",
 "Geometry POLYGON ((33.925781 30.297018, 30.849609 30.221102, 36.738281 17.978733, 42.539063 11.867351, 46.054688 9.362353000000001, 53.613281 12.297068, 64.6875 21.616579, 66.269531 25.403585, 65.302734 29.993002, 50.976563 32.398516, 33.925781 30.297018))"
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 The dataset includes 46883 records from 264 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0000656-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.25919/n8vd-m422
title: Long-term project observations for project P456 semester 2025OCTS_13

description: The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project has three primary goals: (a) detection of gravitational waves from astronomical sources, (b) establishment of a pulsar timescale, and (c) improvement of our understanding of Solar-system dynamics. We are now in an exciting regime where a signal detected in our (and other data sets) has the form expected for a gravitational wave background. We, along with the international community, are now working hard to either confirm or deny this result, and to determine the astrophysical origin of this signal. With this proposal, we aim to maintain our pre-eminent position in the field. This is a continuing proposal for which observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) will continue to improve bounds on ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves until they are detected with confidence. Continued Parkes observations will remain valuable at least until the first stage of the SKA is able to improve on our sensitivity and observing cadence. Even after the gravitational wave background is detected, continued observations will resolve the background origin and individual sources will be identified; advancing the nascent field of gravitational wave astronomy.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.42c1t4t
title: Data from: Growth potential can affect timing of maturity in a long-lived semelparous fish

description: Many diadromous fishes such as salmon and eels that move between
 freshwater and the ocean have evolved semelparous reproductive strategies,
 but both groups display considerable plasticity in characteristics.
 Factors such as population density and growth, predation risk or
 reproduction cost have been found to influence timing of maturation. We
 investigated the relationship between female size at maturity and
 individual growth trajectories of the long-lived semelparous European eel,
 Anguilla anguilla. A Bayesian model was applied to 338 individual growth
 trajectories of maturing migration-stage female silver eels from France,
 Ireland, the Netherlands, and Hungary. The results clearly showed that
 when growth rates declined, the onset of maturation was triggered, and the
 eels left their growth habitats and migrated to the spawning area.
 Therefore, female eels tended to attain larger body size when the growth
 conditions were good enough to risk spending extra time in their growth
 habitats. This flexible maturation strategy is likely related to the
 ability to utilize diverse habitats with widely ranging growth and
 survival potentials in the catadromous life-history across its wide
 species range.
description: datarnID: data ID; Eel: ID of
 the Individual fish: Age: years after recruitment to the continental
 growth habitats; BTL: back-calculated total length (mm); G5yr: 5-yr
 average somatic growth rate (mm/year) until age t; Gdif:
 acceleration/deceleration of growth between age t-5 ~ t; Stage:
 life-history stage as Y for yellow and S for silver
 stage.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.m1r32
title: Data from: Bayesian species delimitation can be robust to guide tree inference errors

description: The Bayesian method of species delimitation (Yang and Rannala, 2010) uses
 a so-called guide tree to reduce the number of models to be evaluated in
 the reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo (rjMCMC) algorithm (Green,
 1995). It has been pointed out that the method tends to over-split if a
 random population tree is used as the guide tree (Fujita and Leaché,
 2011). Here we conduct a simulation study to examine the performance of
 the method under more realistic scenarios, that is, when the guide tree is
 inferred from the sequence data. We found that Bayesian species
 delimitation is in general robust to errors in the inferred guide tree.
description: Histograms of posterior
 probabilities for splitting the clades by BPPHistograms of posterior
 probabilities for splitting the clades by BPPbppGuideTree.SupplFigs.pdf