cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14288/1.0398020
title: Data from: Habitat size thresholds for predators: why damselflies only occur in large bromeliads

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Predators are often more sensitive to habitat size than their prey, and frequently occur in only the largest habitats. Four explanations have been proposed for this pattern: (1) small habitats do not have enough energy to support higher trophic levels; (2) small habitats are less likely to contain particular prey required by specialist predators; (3) small habitats are risky for predators with slow life histories or large body sizes; (4) small habitats are numerically unlikely to be colonized by regionally rare species, such as predators. We critically examine these four hypotheses in relation to the predatory damselfly larva, &lt;i&gt;Mecistogaster modesta&lt;/i&gt; Selys. (Pseudostigmatidae), which occurs almost exclusively in bromeliads &gt; 100ml in capacity. We synthesize multiple years of survey data and three manipulative experiments from the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica to conclude that damselflies do not occur in small bromeliads due to their higher risk of desiccation – not because of energetic limitation, trophic specialization, risk of terrestrial predation, or pure numerical effects. These results suggest that recent and predicted declines in precipitation in northwestern Costa Rica may further restrict bromeliad occupancy by damselflies, with cascading consequences for the rest of the aquatic food web.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0385567
title: Replication Data for: “Local cold adaption increases the thermal window of temperate mussels in the Arctic"

description: This dataset contains all raw data to replicate the fatty acid analysis used in 'Local cold adaptation increases the thermal window of temperate mussels in the Arctic'. Abstract: Species expands towards higher latitudes in response to climate warming, but the pace of this expansion is related to the physiological capacity to resist cold stress. However, few studies exist that have quantified the level of inter-population local adaptation in marine species cold tolerance, especially in the Arctic. We investigated the importance of cold adaptation and thermal window width towards high latitudes from the temperate to the Arctic region. We measured upper and lower lethal air temperatures (i.e. LT and LT50) in temperate and Arctic populations of blue mussels (&lt;i&gt;Mytilus edulis&lt;/i&gt;), and analysed weather data and membrane fatty acid compositions, following emersion simulations. Both populations had similar upper LT (~38 °C), but Arctic mussels survived 4°C colder air temperatures than temperate mussels (−15 vs. −11°C, respectively), corresponding to an 8% increase in their thermal window. There were strong latitudinal relationships between thermal window width and local air temperatures, indicating Arctic mussels are highly adapted to the Arctic environment where the seasonal temperature span exceeds 60°C. Local adaptation and local habitat heterogeneity thus allow leading-edge &lt;i&gt;M. edulis&lt;/i&gt; to inhabit the high Arctic intertidal zones found more than 1200 km north of the limit for a temperate adapted individual. This intraspecific pattern provides insight into the importance of accounting for cold adaptation in climate change, conservation and biogeographic studies.
DOI: 10.14288/1.0397939
title: Data from: Testing predictions of inclusive fitness theory in inbreeding relatives with biparental care

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Inclusive fitness theory predicts that parental care will vary with relatedness between potentially caring parents and offspring, potentially shaping mating system evolution. Systems with extra-pair paternity (EPP), and hence variable parent-brood relatedness, provide valuable opportunities to test this prediction. However, existing theoretical and empirical studies assume that a focal male is either an offspring’s father with no inbreeding, or is completely unrelated. We highlight that this simple dichotomy does not hold given reproductive interactions among relatives, complicating the effect of EPP on parent-brood relatedness yet providing new opportunities to test inclusive fitness theory. Accordingly, we tested hierarchical hypotheses relating parental feeding rate to parent-brood relatedness, parent kinship and inbreeding, using song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) experiencing natural variation in relatedness. As predicted, male and female feeding rates increased with relatedness to a dependent brood, even controlling for brood size. Male feeding rate tended to decrease as paternity loss increased, and increased with increasing kinship and hence inbreeding between socially-paired mates. We thereby demonstrate that variation in a key component of parental care concurs with subtle predictions from inclusive fitness theory. We additionally highlight that such effects can depend on the underlying social mating system, potentially generating status-specific costs of extra-pair reproduction.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0397820
title: Data from: Parallel changes in gut microbiome composition and function during colonization, local adaptation and ecological speciation

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The processes of local adaptation and ecological speciation are often strongly shaped by biotic interactions such as competition and predation. One of the strongest lines of evidence that biotic interactions drive evolution comes from repeated divergence of lineages in association with repeated changes in the community of interacting species. Yet, relatively little is known about the repeatability of changes in gut microbial communities and their role in adaptation and divergence of host populations in nature. Here we utilize three cases of rapid, parallel adaptation and speciation in freshwater threespine stickleback to test for parallel changes in associated gut microbiomes. We find that features of the gut microbial communities have shifted repeatedly in the same direction in association with parallel divergence and speciation of stickleback hosts. These results suggest that changes to gut microbiomes can occur rapidly and predictably in conjunction with host evolution, and that host-microbe interactions might play an important role in host adaptation and diversification.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0402764
title: Data for: Northern Pantanal eddy covariance fluxes (CO2, CH4, H2O) doi:10.1111/gcb.14615 and doi: 10.1111/gcb.14845

description: This dataset corresponds to data collected in the Northern Pantanal Wetland site, registered on AmeriFlux as BR-Npw &lt;https://ameriflux.lbl.gov/sites/siteinfo/BR-Npw&gt;. The primary data archive is via AmeriFlux. Here, methane (CH4) flux data were gap-filled using different methods: the random forest method described in Kim et al., 2019, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14845; and the marginal distribution sampling (MDS) algorithm described in Dalmagro et al., 2019, doi: 10.1111/gcb.14615. The dataset archived here is identical to that archived on AmeriFlux except that the file here contains both the Kim and the Dalmagro gap-filling approaches. The AmeriFlux dataset contains methane flux data gap-filled using random forest only.
DOI: 10.14288/1.0386736
title: Replication Data for "Progressive development of E-W extension across the Tibetan plateau: A case study of the Thakkhola graben, west-central Nepal"

description: Full analytical data in support of the manuscript "Progressive development of E-W extension across the Tibetan plateau: A case study of the Thakkhola graben, west-central Nepal", submitted to International Geology Review The Thakkhola graben is a large-scale N-S striking, E-W extensional structure located in west-central Nepal that previous work has shown was actively developing ~ 17 Myr ago. New multi-system geochronological data from the immediate footwall of the Dangardzong fault, the main graben-forming structure in the Thakkhola, outline decelerating cooling paths. The average cooling rate in the footwall of the Dangardzong fault changes from 55 ± 5 ˚C/Ma in the early Miocene (~ 22-13) defined by monazite U-Th/Pb pluton crystallization ages, mica &lt;sup&gt;40&lt;/sup&gt;Ar/&lt;sup&gt;39&lt;/sup&gt;Ar cooling ages and zircon U-Th/He ages, to 18 ± 7 ˚C/Ma in the middle to late Miocene (~13-8 Ma) between zircon and apatite U-Th/He ages, and finally to 6 ± 3 ˚C/Ma from the late Miocene to present day (cooling post apatite U-Th/He closure). The changing cooling rate is interpreted to reflect the widespread development of graben in the Tibetan plateau beginning in the middle Miocene and the progressive partitioning of strain away from the Thakkhola.
DOI: 10.14288/1.0398072
title: Not a melting pot: plant species aggregate in their non-native range

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Aim&lt;/b&gt;: Plant species continue to be moved outside of their native range by human activities. Here, we aim at determining whether, once introduced, plants assimilate into native communities, or whether they aggregate, thus forming mosaics of native- and alien-rich communities. Alien species may aggregate in their non-native range due to shared habitat preferences, such as their tendency to establish in high-biomass, species-poor areas.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Location&lt;/b&gt;: 22 herbaceous grasslands in 14 countries, mainly in the temperate zone.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Time period&lt;/b&gt;: 2012 - 2016.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Major taxa studied&lt;/b&gt;: Plants.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Methods&lt;/b&gt;: We used a globally coordinated survey. Within this survey, we found 46 plant species, predominantly from Eurasia, for which we had co-occurrence data in their native and non-native range. We test for differences in co-occurrence patterns of 46 species, between their native (home) and non-native (away) range. We also tested whether species had similar habitat preferences, by testing for differences in total biomass and species richness of the patches species occupy in their native and non-native range.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Results&lt;/b&gt;: We found the same species to show different patterns of association, depending on whether they were in their native or non-native range. Alien species were negatively associated with native species, and aggregated instead with other alien species in species-poor, high-biomass communities in their non-native, compared to their native range.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Main conclusions&lt;/b&gt;: The strong differences between the native (home) and non-native (away) range in species co-occurrence patterns are evidence that how species associate with resident communities in their non-native range is not species-dependent, but rather a property of being away from their native range. These results thus highlight that species may undergo important ecological changes when introduced away from their native range. Overall, we show origin-dependent associations that result in novel communities in which alien-rich patches exist within a mosaic of native-dominated communities.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0397584
title: Data from: Can avian functional traits predict cultural ecosystem services?

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;ol&gt; &lt;li style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;"&gt;The functional trait diversity of species assemblages can predict the provision of ecosystem services such as pollination and carbon sequestration, but it is unclear whether the same trait-based framework can be applied to identify the factors that underpin cultural ecosystem services and disservices. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;"&gt;To explore the relationship between traits and the contribution of species to cultural ecosystem services and disservices, we conducted 404 questionnaire surveys with birdwatchers and local residents in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;"&gt;We used an information-theoretic approach to identify which of 20 functional traits for 199 Costa Rican bird species best predicted their cultural ecosystem service scores related to birdwatching, acoustic aesthetics, education and local identity, as well as disservices (e.g., harm to crops). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;"&gt;We found that diet was the most important variable explaining perceptions of cultural ecosystem service and disservice providers. Aesthetic traits such as plumage colour and pattern were important in explaining birdwatching scores. We also found people have a high affinity for forest-affiliated birds. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li style="text-align:justify;"&gt;&lt;span style="background:white;"&gt;The insight that functional traits can explain variation among cultural perspectives on values derived from birds offers a first step towards a trait-based system for understanding the species attributes that underpin cultural ecosystem services and disservices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0397797
title: Data from: Climatic change only stimulated growth for trees under weak competition in central boreal forests

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;1. Global change ecologists have often used trees under weak competition (e.g., dominant/codominant trees) to examine relationships between climatic change and tree growth. Scaling up these results to a forest relies on the assumption that the climatic change-tree growth relationship is not affected by tree-level competition. 2. Using permanent sample plot data from the central Canadian boreal region where warming did not result in water deficit, we tested the above-mentioned assumption by looking at whether the relationship between climatic change and tree growth varied with tree-level competition, which was quantified using a modified Hegyi competition index. 3. We found that tree growth increased over time for trees under weak competition, but decreased for those under strong competition. The divergent temporal trends among trees under different levels of competition led to a non-significant change in growth for our study plots. Growth increased with regional warming, atmospheric [CO2] and water availability for trees under weak competition, but not for those under strong competition. 4. Synthesis. Our results suggest that upscaling the growth responses of dominant/codominant trees to climate change to a forest or a region can lead to biased estimates. Tree-level competition should be taken into account when expressing climatic change and tree growth relationships.
DOI: 10.14288/1.0387171
title: U.S. Cost Indices for Asphalt Concrete and Portland Cement Concrete Highway Construction: General Construction and Maintenance & Rehabilitation

description: This dataset contains the following four cost indices: (1) asphalt concrete (AC) highway construction, (2) Portland cement concrete (PCC) highway construction, (3) AC highway maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R), and (4) PCC highway M&R. The chained Fisher indices were computed using highway construction bid data from 47 U.S. states. The quarterly indices currently span 2005 to 2017. The highway construction cost indices encompass all highway construction costs for each pavement type, while the maintenance and rehabilitation (M&R) cost indices include only the effect of bid items related to pavement repair. These indices are maintained on an annual basis, with future updates scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020.
DOI: 10.14288/1.0397796
title: Assortative mating in hybrid zones is remarkably ineffective in promoting speciation

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Partial prezygotic isolation is often viewed as more important than partial postzygotic isolation (low fitness of hybrids) early in the process of speciation. I simulate secondary contact between two populations (‘species’) to examine effects of assortative mating and low hybrid fitness in preventing blending. A small reduction in hybrid fitness (e.g., by 10%) produces a narrower hybrid zone than a strong but imperfect mating preference (e.g., 10x stronger preference for conspecific over heterospecific mates). In the latter case, rare F1 hybrids find each other attractive (due to assortative mating), leading to the buildup of a continuum of intermediates. The weakness of assortative mating compared to reduced fitness of hybrids in preventing blending is robust to varying genetic bases of these traits. Assortative mating is most powerful in limiting blending when it is encoded by a single locus, is essentially complete, or when there is a large mate search cost. In these cases assortative mating is likely to cause hybrids to have low fitness, due to frequency-dependent mating disadvantage of individuals of rare mating types. These results prompt a questioning of the concept of partial prezygotic isolation, since it is not very isolating unless there is also postzygotic isolation.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0397619
title: Species differences in phenology shape coexistence

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ecological theory produces opposing predictions about whether differences in the timing of life history transitions, or ‘phenology’, promote or limit coexistence. Phenological separation is predicted to create temporal niche differences, increasing coexistence, yet phenological separation could also competitively favour one species, increasing fitness differences and hindering coexistence. We experimentally manipulated relative germination timing, a critical phenological event, of two annual grass species, &lt;i&gt;Vulpia microstachys&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;V. octoflora&lt;/i&gt;, to test these contrasting predictions. We parameterized a competition model to estimate within-season niche differences, fitness differences, and coexistence, and to estimate coexistence when year-to-year fluctuations of germination timing occur. Increasing germination separation caused parallel changes in niche and fitness differences, with the net effect of weakening within-year coexistence. Both species experienced a competitive advantage by germinating earlier and a four-day head start allowed the generally inferior competitor to exclude the otherwise superior competitor. The overall consequence of germination separation was to limit coexistence within a given year, although year-to-year variation in relative timing of germination was sufficient to support long-term coexistence. Our results clarify how phenological differences structure competitive interactions and highlight the need to quantify year-to-year variation in these differences to better understand species coexistence.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0398014
title: Experimental hybridization studies suggest that pleiotropic alleles commonly underlie adaptive divergence between natural populations

description: &lt;b&gt;Abstract&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;The alleles used for adaptation can pleiotropically affect traits under stabilizing selection. The fixation of alleles with deleterious pleiotropic effects causes compensatory alleles to be favoured by selection. Such compensatory alleles might segregate in interpopulation hybrids, resulting in segregation variance for traits where parents have indistinguishable phenotypes. If adaptation typically involves pleiotropy and compensation, then the segregation variance for traits under stabilizing selection is expected to increase with the magnitude of adaptive phenotypic divergence between parents. This prediction has not been tested empirically, and I gathered data from experimental hybridization studies to evaluate it. I found that pairs of parents which are more phenotypically divergent beget hybrids with more segregation variance in traits for which the parents are statistically indistinguishable. This result suggests that adaptive divergence between pairs of natural populations proceeds via pleiotropy and compensation, and that deleterious transgressive segregation variance accumulates systematically as populations diverge.&lt;/p&gt;
DOI: 10.14288/1.0376070
title: Data for: Streams with Riparian Forest Buffers versus Impoundments Differ in Discharge and DOM Characteristics for Pasture Catchments in Southern Amazonia

description: This data collection includes the Supporting Information for the paper: Streams with Riparian Forest Buffers versus Impoundments Differ in Discharge and DOM Characteristics for Pasture Catchments in Southern Amazonia. It contains measurements of precipitation, temperature, oxidation-reduction potential, discharge, baseflow, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), DOC components, slope ratio, and fluorescence indices (FI, HIX, BIX)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15272273
title: waldronlab/BugSigDBExports: Release v1.3.0

description: This repository contains data files exported from BugSigDB, a manually curated database of published microbial signatures.

Release v1.3.0



New signatures

PubMed ID is the Study ID if available

Taxonomic rank domain supported
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5606165
title: waldronlab/BugSigDBExports: Release v1.3.0

description: This repository contains data files exported from BugSigDB, a manually curated database of published microbial signatures.

Release v1.3.0



New signatures

PubMed ID is the Study ID if available

Taxonomic rank domain supported
DOI: 10.17632/7c4xj8bvy7
title: Post‐Chikungunya chronic arthralgia effects on pain, balance, strength, and gait: do middle-aged differ from older adults?

description: This dataset is related to a study that investigated the effects of Post-Chikungunya virus chronic arthritis (PCCA) in middle-aged and older adults. The objective was to compare subjective pain scores, handgrip strength, balance, and temporospatial gait parameters between these two groups, both diagnosed with PCCA. The sample consisted of 77 participants, divided into two groups: middle-aged adults (n = 47) and older adults (n = 30). The assessments included handgrip strength tests, biomechanical gait parameters, balance measurements, and pain perception.
DOI: 10.17632/7c4xj8bvy7.1
title: Post‐Chikungunya chronic arthralgia effects on pain, balance, strength, and gait: do middle-aged differ from older adults?

description: This dataset is related to a study that investigated the effects of Post-Chikungunya virus chronic arthritis (PCCA) in middle-aged and older adults. The objective was to compare subjective pain scores, handgrip strength, balance, and temporospatial gait parameters between these two groups, both diagnosed with PCCA. The sample consisted of 77 participants, divided into two groups: middle-aged adults (n = 47) and older adults (n = 30). The assessments included handgrip strength tests, biomechanical gait parameters, balance measurements, and pain perception.
DOI: 10.17632/hwdrymcp8g
title: Evaluation of general health status in THA

description: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the primary treatment for severe joint damage and is a significant surgical advancement of the century. With a remarkable 30-year follow-up, this study aims to assess postoperative THA patients' long-term quality of life, particularly their complications, functionality, satisfaction, and survival after surgery.
DOI: 10.17632/hwdrymcp8g.1
title: Evaluation of general health status in THA

description: Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the primary treatment for severe joint damage and is a significant surgical advancement of the century. With a remarkable 30-year follow-up, this study aims to assess postoperative THA patients' long-term quality of life, particularly their complications, functionality, satisfaction, and survival after surgery.