cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n41j7
title: Data from: Tropical tree species diversity in a mountain system in southern Mexico: local and regional patterns and determinant factors

description: Mechanisms explaining patterns of biodiversity along elevation gradients
 in tropical mountain systems remain controversial. We use a set of
 climatic, topographic and soil variables encompassing regional, landscape
 and local-level spatial scales to explain the spatial variation of tree
 species diversity in the Sierra Madre of Chiapas, Mexico. We sampled 128
 circular plots (0.1-ha each) in four elevational bands along four
 elevation gradients or transects encompassing 100-2200 m. A total of
 12,533 trees belonging to 444 species were recorded. Diversity patterns
 along the elevation gradient and the explanatory power of independent
 variables were dependent on spatial scale (regional vs transect) and
 functional group (total vs late-successional or pioneer species).
 Diversity of all species and late-successional species (1 - proportion of
 pioneer species) showed a constant pattern at the regional and transect
 scales, with low predictive power of climatic variables and/or elevation.
 A linear decrease of either number or proportion of pioneer species
 diversity was observed with increasing elevation, which was correlated
 with temperature, rainfall, and human disturbance trends. Total species
 diversity showed an increase with rainfall of the warmest quarter,
 indicating a regional-level limiting effect of seasonality (drought
 duration). Yet the explanatory power of climatic and topographic variables
 was higher at the individual transect level than at the regional scale,
 suggesting the parallel but differential influence of evolutionary and
 geological history factors on diversification not so far studied to
 explain elevation patterns of species diversity in tropical mountain
 systems.
description: Martínez-Camilo et
 al._Data
DOI: 10.15468/dl.h3uqtu
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 3047 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 "TaxonKey is Lycorma delicatula",
 "Country is one of (China, Chinese Taipei, Korea, Republic of, Japan, Viet Nam, India)"
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 The dataset includes 3047 records from 26 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001010-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6vc12
title: Data from: Multiple benefits of alloparental care in a fluctuating environment

description: Although cooperatively breeding vertebrates occur disproportionately in
 unpredictable environments, the underlying mechanism shaping this
 biogeographic pattern remains unclear. Cooperative breeding may buffer
 against harsh conditions (hard life hypothesis), or additionally allow for
 sustained breeding under benign conditions (temporal variability
 hypothesis). To distinguish between the hard life and temporal variability
 hypotheses, we investigated whether the number of alloparents at a nest
 increased reproductive success or load-lightening in superb starlings
 (Lamprotornis superbus), and whether these two types of benefits varied in
 harsh and benign years. We found that mothers experienced both types of
 benefits consistent with the temporal variability hypothesis, as larger
 contingents of alloparents increased the number of young fledged while
 simultaneously allowing mothers to reduce their provisioning rates under
 both harsh and benign rainfall conditions. In contrast, fathers
 experienced load-lightening only under benign rainfall conditions,
 suggesting that cooperative breeding may serve to take advantage of
 unpredictable benign breeding seasons when they do occur. Cooperative
 breeding in unpredictable environments may thus promote flexibility in
 offspring care behaviour, which could mitigate variability in the cost of
 raising young. Our results highlight the importance of considering how
 offspring care decisions vary among breeding roles and across fluctuating
 environmental conditions.
description: RSucc &
 LoadLightening dataset 2018 GuindreParker&Rubenstein
DOI: 10.15468/dl.75xpds
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 14 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
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 "TaxonKey is Symonanthus bancroftii",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "BasisOfRecord is one of (Specimen)"
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 The dataset includes 14 records from 4 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0001011-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.51d718j
title: Data from: Generalized polyspike train: an EEG biomarker of drug-resistant idiopathic generalized epilepsy

description: Objective: To identify clinical and EEG biomarkers of drug resistance in
 adults with idiopathic generalized epilepsy. Methods: We conducted a
 case-control study consisting of a discovery cohort and a replication
 cohort independently assessed at two different centres. In each centre
 patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy phenotype and generalized
 spike-wave discharges on EEG were classified as drug-resistant or
 drug-responsive. EEG changes were classified into pre-defined patterns and
 compared between the two groups in the discovery cohort. Factors
 associated with drug resistance in multivariable analysis were tested in
 the replication cohort. Results: The discovery cohort included 85 patients
 (29% drug-resistant and 71% drug-responsive). Their median age at
 assessment was 32 years and 50.6% were female. Multivariable analysis
 showed that having higher number of seizure types (3 vs. 1: odds ratio
 [OR]= 31.1, 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.5-214, p&lt;0.001; 3 vs. 2:
 OR=14.6, 95% CI: 2.3-93.1, p=0.004) and generalized polyspike train (burst
 of generalized rhythmic spikes lasting less than 1 second) during sleep
 were associated with drug resistance (OR=10.8, 95% CI: 2.4-49.4, p=0.002).
 When these factors were tested in the replication cohort of 80 patients
 (27.5% drug-resistant and 72.5% drug-responsive; 71.3% female; median age
 27.5 years), the proportion of patients with generalized polyspike train
 during sleep was also higher in the drug-resistant group (OR=4.0, 95% CI:
 1.35-11.8, p=0.012). Conclusion: Generalized polyspike train during sleep
 may be an EEG biomarker for drug resistance in adults with idiopathic
 generalized epilepsy.
description: Univariable analyses
 between the drug-resistant and drug-responsive groups in the discovery
 cohortTable
 e-1.docxMultivariable analyses
 (selected model) between the drug-resistant and drug-responsive groups in
 the discovery cohortTable
 e-2.docxUnivariate analyses
 between the drug-resistant and drug-responsive groups with prolonged EEG
 in discovery cohortTable
 e-3.docxMultivariable analyses
 (selected model) between the drug-resistant and drug-responsive groups
 with prolonged EEG in discovery modelTable
 e-4.docx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n848j
title: Data from: Leaf carbon and oxygen isotopes are coordinated with the leaf economics spectrum in Mediterranean rangeland species

description: The leaf economics spectrum (LES) describes covariation of traits relevant
 to carbon and nutrient economics across plant species, but much less is
 known about the relationship between the LES and leaf water economy. We
 propose an approach combining the measurement of two leaf traits related
 to water use economy, leaf carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) isotopic
 composition, and the measurement of leaf morphological and nutrient traits
 to investigate the link between leaf carbon and nutrient economics and
 water use. We tested the relationships between leaf traits linked to
 carbon and nutrient use within the LES and water use traits using leaf
 δ18O as a proxy of stomatal conductance (gs) and δ13C as a proxy of
 intrinsic water use efficiency (WUEi) across 15 Mediterranean rangeland
 species grown in an irrigated common garden and in a natural grassland in
 Southern France. The target species spanned a wide range of variation in
 leaf morphological and nutrient trait values and a wide range of leaf δ18O
 and δ13C values. PCA analysis revealed multiple associations among leaf
 morphology, nutrients and isotopic composition, with the first axis alone
 explaining 56.0% of the total variation across species. Leaf δ18O and δ13C
 covaried with leaf morphology and leaf nutrient concentrations along a
 single resource use axis. Species with high leaf δ18O and δ13C (low gs and
 high WUEi) exhibited a resource-conservative strategy (high LDMC, low leaf
 N, P and K) whereas species with low leaf δ18O and δ13C (high gs and low
 WUEi) showed a more resource-acquisitive strategy (high SLA and leaf N, P
 and K). These leaf trait syndromes and resource use strategies were
 strongly conserved across sites with contrasting environmental conditions,
 indicating that foliar δ18O and δ13C can be included as an integral part
 of the LES for this set of rangeland species. Overall, the data suggest a
 tight coupling and coordination between water, carbon and nutrient use
 strategies across herbaceous plant species. A dual δ18O and δ13C isotope
 approach combined with LES trait measurements is a promising tool to more
 comprehensively assess the diversity of resource use strategies among
 coexisting plant species.
description: Data_Dryad_Prietoetal_2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rs8vc
title: Data from: Ants as ecological indicators of rainforest restoration: community convergence and the development of an Ant Forest Indicator Index in the Australian wet tropics

description: Ecosystem restoration can help reverse biodiversity loss, but whether
 faunal communities of forests undergoing restoration converge with those
 of primary forest over time remains contentious. There is a need to
 develop faunal indicators of restoration success that more comprehensively
 reflect changes in biodiversity and ecosystem function. Ants are an
 ecologically dominant faunal group and are widely advocated as ecological
 indicators. We examine ant species and functional group responses on a
 chronosequence of rainforest restoration in northern Australia, and
 develop a novel method for selecting and using indicator species. Four
 sampling techniques were used to survey ants at 48 sites, from grassland,
 through various ages (1–24 years) of restoration plantings, to mature
 forest. From principal components analysis of seven vegetation metrics, we
 derived a Forest Development Index (FDI) of vegetation change along the
 chronosequence. A novel Ant Forest Indicator Index (AFII), based on the
 occurrences of ten key indicator species associated with either grassland
 or mature forest, was used to assess ant community change with forest
 restoration. Grasslands and mature forests supported compositionally
 distinct ant communities at both species and functional levels. The AFII
 was strongly correlated with forest development (FDI). At forest
 restoration sites older than 5–10 years that had a relatively closed
 canopy, ant communities converged on those of mature rainforest,
 indicating a promising restoration trajectory for fauna as well as plants.
 Our findings reinforce the utility of ants as ecological indicators and
 emphasize the importance of restoration methods that achieve rapid
 closed-canopy conditions. The novel AFII assessed restoration status from
 diverse and patchily distributed species, closely tracking ant community
 succession using comprehensive species-level data. It has wide
 applicability for assessing forest restoration in a way that is relatively
 independent of sampling methodology and intensity, and without a need for
 new comparative data from reference sites.
description: Ant data for EE paper
 and DryadFrequency of occurrence
 of ant species in pitfall traps at each study site.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4s51m
title: Data from: Floral resource availability from groundcover promotes bee abundance in coffee agroecosystems

description: Patterns of bee abundance and diversity across different spatial scales
 have received thorough research consideration. However, the impact of
 short and long term temporal resource availability on biodiversity has
 been less explored. This is highly relevant in tropical agricultural
 systems for pollinators, as many foraging periods of pollinators extend
 beyond flowering of any single crop species. In this study, we sought to
 understand how bee communities in tropical agroecosystems changed between
 seasons, and if short and long term floral resource availability
 influenced their diversity and abundance. We used a threshold analysis
 approach in order to explore this relationship at two time scales. This
 study took place in a region dominated by coffee agroecosystems in
 Southern Mexico. This was an ideal system because the landscape offers a
 range of coffee management regimes that maintain heterogeneity in floral
 resource availability spatially and temporally. We found that the bee
 community varies significantly between seasons. There were higher
 abundances of native social, solitary and managed honeybees during the dry
 season when coffee flowers. Additionally, we found that floral resources
 from groundcover, but not trees, were associated with bee abundance.
 Further, the temporal scale of the availability of these resources is
 important, whereby short-term floral resource availability appears
 particularly important in maintaining high bee abundance at sites with
 lower seasonal complementarity. We argue that in additional to spatial
 resource heterogeneity, temporal resource heterogeneity is critical in
 explaining bee community patterns, and should thus be considered to
 promote pollinator conservation.
description: Temporal Resource
 DataData was field collected
 in the Soconusco region of Chiapas Mexico. Data is on floral resource
 characteristics. Labels: fl=floralresource; abund=abundance; per=percent;
 gc=groundcover; can=canopy;temporal_diversity_data.csvBee AbundancesBee Community Diversity.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0gn1qv8
title: Data from: Melanin-based colouration and host-parasite interactions under global change

description: The role of parasites in shaping melanin-based colour polymorphism, and
 the consequences of colour polymorphism for disease resistance, remain
 debated. Here we review recent evidence of the links between melanin-based
 colouration and the behavioural and immunological defences of vertebrates
 against their parasites. First we propose that (1) differences between
 colour morphs can result in variable exposure to parasites, either
 directly (certain colours might be more or less attractive to parasites)
 or indirectly (variations in behaviour and encounter probability). Once
 infected, we propose that (2) immune variation between differently
 coloured individuals might result in different abilities to cope with
 parasite infection. We then discuss (3) how these different abilities
 could translate in variable sexual and natural selection in environments
 varying in parasite pressure. Finally, we address (4) the potential role
 of parasites in the maintenance of melanin-based colouration polymorphism,
 especially in the context of global change and multiple stressors in
 human-altered environments. Because global change will likely affect both
 colouration and the spread of parasitic diseases in the next decades,
 future studies should take into account melanin-based colouration to
 better predict the evolutionary responses of animals to changing disease
 risk in human-altered environments.
description: dryadSummary of studies
 testing the links between melanin-based coloration and
 behaviour/immunity/parasite load (+: positive, -: negative, 0: non
 significant) (method: C:correlative, E: experimental). Studies on
 melanin-based coloration and parasitism in vertebrates were selected from
 Web of Science between January 1997 and September 2017 (using the
 keywords: melanin AND color AND [parasite OR immunity or
 behavior]).
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.3b333s8
title: Data from: Shorebirds as important vectors for plant dispersal in Europe

description: Shorebirds (Charadriiformes) undergo rapid migrations with potential for
 long-distance dispersal (LDD) of plants. We studied the frequency of
 endozoochory by shorebirds in different parts of Europe covering a broad
 latitudinal range and different seasons. We assessed whether plants
 dispersed conformed to morphological dispersal syndromes. A total of 409
 excreta samples (271 faeces and 138 pellets) were collected from redshank
 (Tringa totanus), black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus), pied avocet
 (Recurvirostra avosetta), northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), Eurasian
 curlew (Numenius arquata) and black-tailed godwit (Limosa limosa) in
 south-west Spain, north-west England, southern Ireland and Iceland in 2005
 and 2016, and intact seeds were extracted and identified. Godwits were
 sampled just before or after migratory movements between England and
 Iceland. The germinability of seeds was tested. Intact diaspores were
 recovered from all bird species and study areas, and were present in 13%
 of samples overall. Thirteen plant families were represented, including
 Charophyceae and 26 angiosperm taxa. Only four species had an
 "endozoochory syndrome". Four alien species were recorded.
 Ellenberg values classified three species as aquatic and 20 as
 terrestrial. Overall, 89% of seeds were from terrestrial plants, and 11%
 from aquatic plants. Average seed length was higher in redshank pellets
 than in their faeces. Six species were germinated, none of which had an
 endozoochory syndrome. Seeds were recorded during spring and autumn
 migration. Plant species recorded have broad latitudinal ranges consistent
 with LDD via shorebirds. Crucially, morphological syndromes do not
 adequately predict LDD potential, and more empirical work is required to
 identify which plants are dispersed by shorebirds. Incorporating
 endozoochory by shorebirds and other migratory waterbirds into plant
 distribution models would allow us to better understand the natural
 processes that facilitated colonization of oceanic islands, or to improve
 predictions of how plants will respond to climate change, or how alien
 species spread.
description: Raw data on intact seeds
 in shorebirdsThis file contains data
 of the faecal samples collected from the field in different locations with
 date, faeces sample mass, plant species name, and the number of seeds per
 taxon. This file was made with Microsoft Excel 2016shorebird.xlsx
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.17m4h
title: Data from: Expression of multiple sexual signals by fathers and sons in the East-Mediterranean barn swallow: Are advertising strategies heritable?

description: The level of expression of sexually selected traits is generally
 determined by genes, environment and their interaction. In species that
 use multiple sexual signals which may be costly to produce, investing in
 the expression of one sexual signal may limit the expression of the other,
 favoring the evolution of a strategy for resource allocation among
 signals. As a result, even when the expression of sexual signals is
 condition dependent, the relative level of expression of each signal may
 be heritable. We tested this hypothesis in the East-Mediterranean barn
 swallow (Hirundo rustica transitiva), in which males have been shown to
 express two uncorrelated sexual signals: red-brown ventral coloration, and
 long tail streamers. We show that variation in both signals may partially
 be explained by age, as well as by paternal origin (genetic father-son
 regressions), but that the strongest similarity between fathers and sons
 is the relative allocation towards one trait or the other (relative
 expression index), rather than the expression of the traits themselves.
 These results suggest that the expression of one signal is not independent
 of the other, and that genetic strategies for resource allocation among
 sexual signals may be selected for during the evolution of multiple sexual
 signals.
description: Sons and their genetic
 fathers morphological dataSons and fathers morphology
 vortman et al.xlsxadult male trait
 distribution
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.p96b7
title: Data from: Three types of rescue can avert extinction in a changing environment

description: Setting aside high-quality large areas of habitat to protect threatened
 populations is becoming increasingly difficult as humans fragment and
 degrade the environment. Biologists and managers therefore must determine
 the best way to shepherd small populations through the dual challenges of
 reductions in both the number of individuals and genetic variability. By
 bringing in additional individuals, threatened populations can be
 increased in size (demographic rescue) or provided with variation to
 facilitate adaptation and reduce inbreeding (genetic rescue). The relative
 strengths of demographic and genetic rescue for reducing extinction and
 increasing growth of threatened populations are untested, and which type
 of rescue is effective may vary with population size. Using the flour
 beetle (Tribolium castaneum) in a microcosm experiment, we disentangled
 the genetic and demographic components of rescue, and compared them with
 adaptation from standing genetic variation (evolutionary rescue in the
 strictest sense) using 244 experimental populations founded at either a
 smaller (50 individuals) or larger (150 individuals) size. Both types of
 rescue reduced extinction, and those effects were additive. Over the
 course of six generations, genetic rescue increased population sizes and
 intrinsic fitness substantially. Both large and small populations showed
 evidence of being able to adapt from standing genetic variation. Our
 results support the practice of genetic rescue in facilitating adaptation
 and reducing inbreeding depression, and suggest that demographic rescue
 alone may suffice in larger populations even if only moderately inbred
 individuals are available for addition.
description: spreadsheet with census
 data through time collected on experimental popluationsColumn are as
 follows:Block temporal block Pop ID unique population ID code Size
 founding size (small = 50, large = 150) Demographic demographic rescue
 treatment (1 if implemented, else 0) Genetic genetic rescue treatment (1
 if implemented, else 0) F0 founding population size F1 census time 1 F2
 census time 2 F2rescue census time 2 plus rescue individuals F3 census
 time 3 F4 census time 4 F5 census time 5 no_boxes_F5 number of boxes 5th
 generation density_per_box_F5 F5/no_boxes_F5 F6 census time 6 perlight
 percent individuals in selected population that had the red (genetic
 rescue) phenotype Extant whether a population is extant Extinct whether a
 population went extinct PseudoExtinct extinction plus pseudoextinction
 (&lt;3 individuals at time 6)Rescue_Master_Data_Hufbauer_etal.xlsx