cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kn3p693
title: Data from: Geometric morphometrics of nested symmetries unravels hierarchical inter- and intra-individual variation in biological shapes

description: Symmetry is a pervasive feature of organismal shape and the focus of a
 large body of research in Biology. Here, we consider complex patterns of
 symmetry where a phenotype exhibits a hierarchically structured
 combination of symmetries. We extend the Procrustes ANOVA for the analysis
 of nested symmetries and the decomposition of the overall morphological
 variation into components of symmetry (among-individual variation) and
 asymmetry (directional and fluctuating asymmetry). We illustrate its use
 with the Aristotle’s lantern, the masticatory apparatus of ‘regular’ sea
 urchins, a complex organ displaying bilateral symmetry nested within
 five-fold rotational symmetry. Our results highlight the importance of
 characterising the full symmetry of a structure with nested symmetries.
 Higher order rotational symmetry appears strongly constrained and
 developmentally stable compared to lower level bilateral symmetry. This
 contrast between higher and lower levels of asymmetry is discussed in
 relation to the spatial pattern of the lantern morphogenesis. This
 extended framework is applicable to any biological object exhibiting
 nested symmetries, regardless of their type (e.g., bilateral, rotational,
 translational). Such cases are extremely widespread in animals and plants,
 from arthropod segmentation to angiosperm inflorescence and corolla shape.
 The method therefore widens the research scope on developmental
 instability, canalization, developmental modularity and morphological
 integration.
description: Savriama_Gerber_2018_Sc_Rep_DataRaw coordinates for landmark data used in this study.Savriama_Gerber_2018_Sc_Rep_Lantern3DCT-Scan of the Aristotle’s lantern of the ‘regular’ sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus that is being displayed in the figures of this study. This model can be opened in software such as Meshlab and is ready for 3D printing.
DOI: 10.3886/e244685
title: What Determines Financial Development? Culture, Institutions or Trade

description: This paper endeavours to determine in how far theories emphasising cultural values, dysfunctional institutions, or impediments to trade can explain the
vast differences in the size of financial systems across the globe. To account for endogeneity, an instrumental variables approach is pursued. For a cross-section of
countries, we find that trade openness and institutions constraining the political
elite from expropriating financiers tend to promote financial development. Conversely, there is only limited evidence that cultural beliefs and the cost of enforcing
financial contracts significantly hamper financial development.<br>
DOI: 10.3886/e244685v1
title: What Determines Financial Development? Culture, Institutions or Trade

description: This paper endeavours to determine in how far theories emphasising cultural values, dysfunctional institutions, or impediments to trade can explain the
vast differences in the size of financial systems across the globe. To account for endogeneity, an instrumental variables approach is pursued. For a cross-section of
countries, we find that trade openness and institutions constraining the political
elite from expropriating financiers tend to promote financial development. Conversely, there is only limited evidence that cultural beliefs and the cost of enforcing
financial contracts significantly hamper financial development.<br>
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t536h7s
title: Data from: Interactions among trees: a key element in the stabilising effect of species diversity on forest growth

description: 1.There is mounting evidence that species diversity increases the temporal
 stability of forest growth. This stabilising effect of diversity has
 mainly been attributed to species differences in their response to
 fluctuating environmental conditions. Interactions among individuals could
 also contribute to the stabilising effect of diversity by increasing the
 mean and reducing the variance of tree growth, however, this has never
 been directly demonstrated. 2.We used tree‐ring width chronologies from
 temperate and boreal mixed stands of Eastern Canada to identify the role
 of interactions among individuals in the stabilising effect of diversity
 on forest growth. Using neighbourhood competition index and a mixed model
 we compared the effect of interspecific and intraspecific interactions on
 the mean and the variance of tree growth. 3.We found that interspecific
 interactions are less detrimental to tree growth than intraspecific
 interactions. We also found that interspecific interactions buffer tree
 response to drought and thereby reduce the variance of tree growth. 4.Our
 results indicate diversity may increase the mean and reduce the variance
 of tree growth through interactions among individuals. Thus, we
 demonstrate interactions among individuals play a role in the stabilising
 effect of diversity on forest growth, and in doing so, we bring to light
 other mechanisms of the insurance hypothesis.
description: 01_Climate (Drought
 Code)Drought Code at each
 site. File names in the 01_Climate folder: climABI.csv, climBIC.csv,
 climD1823_D1847.csv (given their geographical proximity, D1823 and D1847
 received the same climatic data), climSUT.csv. These files contain annual
 series of mean Canadian Drought Code (DC) for the 1991-2013
 period.01_Climate.zip02_Distance among treesDistances among trees at each site. File names in the 02_Distance folder: distABI.rdata, distBIC.rdata, distD1823.rdata, distD1847.rdata, distSUT.rdata. These files contain the distances (&lt; 20 m) among all trees.02_Distance.zip03_Tree sizeTree size at each site. File names in the 03_DBH folder: dbhABI.csv, dbhBIC.csv, dbhD1823.csv, dbhD1847.csv, dbhSUT.csv. These files contain the diameter at breast height (mm) of all living trees.03_DBH.zip04_Tree ring dataTree ring data. 19 files in the 04_TRD folder. File names are coded with species initials followed by the name of the site. These files contain ring width measurement for all trees kept for the analyses.04_TRD.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2ts8094
title: Data from: Genes, geology, and germs: gut microbiota across a primate hybrid zone are explained by site soil properties, not host species

description: Gut microbiota in geographically isolated host populations are often
 distinct. These differences have been attributed to between-population
 differences in host behaviors, environments, genetics, and geographic
 distance. However, which factors are most important remains unknown. Here
 we fill this gap for baboons by leveraging information on 13 environmental
 variables from 14 baboon populations spanning a natural hybrid zone.
 Sampling across a hybrid zone allowed us to additionally test whether
 phylosymbiosis (codiversification between hosts and their microbiota) is
 detectable in admixed, closely related primates. We found little evidence
 of genetic effects: neither host genetic ancestry, host genetic
 relatedness, nor genetic distance between host populations were strong
 predictors of baboon gut microbiota. Instead, gut microbiota were best
 explained by the baboons’ environments, especially the soil’s geologic
 history and exchangeable sodium. Indeed, soil effects were 15 times
 stronger than those of host-population FST, perhaps because soil predicts
 which foods are present, or because baboons are terrestrial and consume
 soil microbes incidentally with their food. Our results support an
 emerging picture in which environmental variation is the dominant
 predictor of host-associated microbiomes. We are the first to show that
 such effects overshadow host species identity among members of the same
 primate genus.
description: geographic_distance_matrix_in_kmgeology_bray-curtisGeological Bray-Curtis distance calculated from: Beicip. 1987 Geological Map of Kenya. (1987 ed. Rueil-Malmaison, France, Ministry of Regional and Energy Development of Kenya.population_FSTvegetation_bray-curtisVegetation values derived from: Mayaux, P., Bartholomé, E., Fritz, S. & Belward, A. 2004 A new land-cover map of Africa for the year 2000. J. Biogeogr. 31, 861-877. (doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2004.01073.x).environmental_metadataEnvironmental variables from Batjes, N. & Gicheru, P. 2004 Soil data derived from SOTER for studies of carbon stocks and change in Kenya (GEF-SOC Project; Version 1.0). ISRIC report 1.hybrid_scoreIndividual level hybrid score, as calculated in TESS.lynch_ritland_relatednessPairwise genetic relatedness (Lynch-Ritland)otu_table_no_singletons_CSS_transformedGrieneisen_etal_SupplementaryTablesSupplemental tables
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sr7818c
title: Data from: Environment and evolutionary history shape phylogenetic turnover in European tetrapods

description: Phylogenetic turnover quantifies the evolutionary distance among species
 assemblages and is central to understanding the main drivers shaping
 biodiversity. It is affected both by geographic and environmental distance
 between sites. Therefore, analyzing phylogenetic turnover in environmental
 space requires removing the effect of geographic distance. Here, we apply
 a novel approach by deciphering phylogenetic turnover of European
 tetrapods in environmental space after removing geographic land distance
 effects. We demonstrate that phylogenetic turnover is strongly structured
 in environmental space, particularly in ectothermic tetrapods, and is well
 explained by macroecological characteristics such as niche size, species
 richness and relative phylogenetic diversity. In ectotherms, rather recent
 evolutionary processes were important in structuring phylogenetic turnover
 along environmental gradients. In contrast, early evolutionary processes
 had already shaped the current structure of phylogenetic turnover in
 endotherms. Our approach enables the disentangling of the idiosyncrasies
 of evolutionary processes such as the degree of niche conservatism and
 diversification rates in structuring biodiversity.
description: Data package used in
 Saladin et al.DataPackage_Saladin_etal.zip
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.78nb548
title: Data from: Seedless gold nanostars with seed-like advantages for biosensing applications

description: Gold nanostars (AuNSs) are seen as promising building blocks for
 biosensors with potential for easy readouts based on naked-eye and
 ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy detection. We present a seedless
 synthesis strategy for AuNSs that has the advantages of the seeded
 methods. The method used ascorbic acid as a reducing agent and silver
 nitrate as an anisotropic growth control assisting agent. AuNSs with
 multiple branches and diameter of 59 nm were produced. They showed good
 stability when capped with PVP and modified with an enzyme in relatively
 strong ionic conditions. We investigated their application in plasmonic
 sensing by modifying them with glucose oxidase and detection of glucose.
 The AuNSs were found to be a good scaffold for the enzyme, proved to
 stable and sensitive as transducers. Thus, the AuNSs showed good promise
 for further applications in plasmonic biosensing for in vivo biomedical
 diagnosis.
description: Data files for Seedless
 gold nanostars with seed-like advantages for biosensing
 applicationsThe data files contain
 data for figures 1 through to 6. Data for Figure 1 is an MS Excel
 Worksheet with the UV-visible spectral read from the HT Synergy (BioTEK).
 Data for Figure 2 are TEM images of the differently synthesized gold
 nanostars. The rest of the data files are a mixture of MS Excel Worksheets
 and Images.Data files from Seedless gold
 nanostars manuscript.zipHEPES Modified One-Pot
 Synthetic Strategy for Gold NanostarsThis is the unpublished
 paper we cited in our manuscript. It has been submitted for publishing
 with Analytical Biochemistry Journal. It is preprint at this
 stage.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qr971vj
title: Data from: Macroecology of birds potentially susceptible to the West Nile Virus

description: Zoonotic diseases transmitted by wildlife affect biological conservation,
 public and animal health, and the economy. Current research efforts are
 aimed at finding wildlife pathogens at a given location. However, a
 meta-analytical approach may reveal emerging macroecological patterns in
 the host-pathogen relationship at different temporal and spatial scales.
 West Nile Virus (WNV) is a pathogen with worldwide detrimental impacts on
 bird populations. To understand macroecological patterns driving WNV
 infection, we aimed to recognise unknown competent reservoirs using three
 disease metrics serological prevalence (SP), molecular prevalence (MP) and
 mortality (M) and test if these metrics are correlated with the
 evolutionary history, geographical origin of bird species, viral strain,
 time-space, and methodology. We performed a quantitative review of field
 studies on birds sampled for WNV. We obtained 4945 observations of 949
 species from 39 countries. Our analysis supported the idea that MP and M
 are good predictors of reservoir competence and allowed us to identify
 potential competent reservoirs. Furthermore, results indicated that the
 variability of these metrics was attributable to phylogenetic, time-space,
 and sample size. A macroecological approach is needed to recognise
 susceptible species and competent reservoirs and to identify other factors
 driving zoonotic diseases originating from wildlife.
description: Appendix 1. Database of
 birds tested to WNVThe database is a
 compilation of worldwide studies of birds sampled for West Nile Virus
 through diagnostic techniques of serology and molecular biology. Each
 observation includes an ID that is associated with the information of the
 original study. The database consists of 147 published studies including
 4995 records which ranged from the years 1959 to 2017 and represented 39
 countriesAppendix 1
 database.xls
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8c40mb0
title: Data from: The mechanics of predator-prey interactions: first principles of physics predict predator-prey size ratios

description: 1. Robust predictions of predator-prey interactions are fundamental for
 the understanding of food webs, their structure, dynamics, resistance to
 species loss, response to invasions and ecosystem function. Most current
 food web models measure parameters at the food web level to predict
 patterns at the same level. Thus, they are sensitive to the quality of the
 data, and may be ineffective in predicting non-observed interactions and
 disturbed food webs. There is a need for mechanistic models that predict
 the occurrence of a predator-prey interaction based on lower levels of
 organization (i.e., the traits of organisms) and the properties of their
 environment. 2. Here, we present such a model that focuses on the
 predation act itself. We built a Newtonian, mechanical model for the
 processes of searching, capturing and handling of a prey item by a
 predator. Associated with general metabolic laws, we predict the net
 energy gain from predation for pairs of pelagic or flying predator species
 and their prey depending on their body sizes. 3. Predicted interactions
 match well with data from the most extensive predator-prey database, and
 overall model accuracy is greater than the allometric niche model. 4. Our
 model shows that it is possible to accurately predict the structure of
 food webs using only a few mechanical traits. It underlines the importance
 of physical constraints in structuring food webs.
description: READMEThis file explains all
 the variables and provides full references for the data in each of the
 datasets that accompany: Portalier S., Fussmann G. F., Loreau M. &
 Cherif M., 2018ms, The mechanics of predator-prey interactions: first
 principles of physics predict predator-prey size
 ratios.Predator-prey
 species-based dataThe file provides
 average body masses for predators and prey, across a wide range of sizes
 and different life media.Portalier_etal_2018_Predator_Prey_Species_Based_Data.csvPredator-prey individual-based dataThe file provides individual body masses of predators and prey in marine food webs.Portalier_etal_2018_Predator_Prey_Individual_Based_Data.csv
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1d21m78
title: Data from: Long-term declines in winter body mass of tits throughout Britain and Ireland correlate with climate change

description: 1. The optimum body mass of passerine birds typically represents a
 trade-off between starvation risk, which promotes fat gain, and predation
 pressure, which promotes fat loss to maintain manoeuvrability. Changes in
 ecological factors that affect either of these variables will therefore
 change the optimum body masses of populations of passerine birds. 2. This
 study sought to identify and quantify the effects of changing temperatures
 and predation pressures on the body masses and wing lengths of populations
 of passerine birds throughout Britain and Ireland over the last 50 years.
 3. We analysed over 900,000 individual measurements of body mass and wing
 length of blue tits Cyanistes caeruleus, coal tits Periparus ater, and
 great tits Parus major collected by licenced bird ringers throughout
 Britain and Ireland from 1965 to 2017, and correlated these with publicly
 available temperature data and published, UK-wide data on the abundance of
 a key predator, the sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus. 4. We found highly
 significant, long-term, UK-wide decreases in winter body masses of adults
 and juveniles of all three species. We also found highly significant
 negative correlations between winter body mass and winter temperature, and
 between winter body mass and sparrowhawk abundance. Independent of these
 effects, body mass further correlated negatively with calendar year,
 suggesting that less well understood dynamic factors, such as
 supplementary feeding levels, may play a major role in determining
 population optimum body masses. Wing lengths of these birds also
 decreased, suggesting a hitherto unobserved large-scale evolutionary
 adjustment of wing loading to the lower body mass. 5. These findings
 provide crucial evidence of the ways in which species are adapting to
 climate change and other anthropogenic factors throughout Britain and
 Ireland. Such processes are likely to have widespread implications as the
 equilibria controlling evolutionary optima in species worldwide are upset
 by rapid, anthropogenic ecological changes.
description: BTO-Blue-Tit-Great-Tit_Coal-Tit-RecordsData were originally supplied by the British Trust for Ornithology. Ring_no = the individual-specific number on the metal ring associated with the bird.BTO-Blue-Tits-Great-Tits-Coal-Tits-Records.xlsx
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18242643
title: Operating Point Dependent Efficiency of Inverter-Controlled Heat Pumps

description: This dataset contains performance data for an inverter-controlled heat pump, focusing specifically on how efficiency fluctuates across different operating points. The heat pump uses a rotary compressor and operates with R290 (Propane). Each file contains data for one specific combination of sink and source temperature (e.g. B12W65). The compressor frequency was varied between 20 and 100 Hz.

The attached presentation contains more information on the test bench and some data analysis. For a detailed description of the testbench we refer to the publication linked below.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18242641
title: Operating Point Dependent Efficiency of Inverter-Controlled Heat Pumps

description: This dataset contains performance data for an inverter-controlled heat pump, focusing specifically on how efficiency fluctuates across different operating points. The heat pump uses a rotary compressor and operates with R290 (Propane). Each file contains data for one specific combination of sink and source temperature (e.g. B12W65). The compressor frequency was varied between 20 and 100 Hz.

The attached presentation contains more information on the test bench and some data analysis. For a detailed description of the testbench we refer to the publication linked below.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0cr574s
title: Data from: Phylogeography of western Mediterranean Cymbalaria (Plantaginaceae) reveals two independent long-distance dispersals and entails new taxonomic circumscriptions

description: The Balearic Islands, Corsica and Sardinia (BCS) constitute biodiversity
 hotspots in the western Mediterranean Basin. Oligocene connections and
 long distance dispersal events have been suggested to cause presence of
 BCS shared endemic species. One of them is Cymbalaria aequitriloba, which,
 together with three additional species, constitute a polyploid clade
 endemic to BCS. Combining amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP)
 fingerprinting, plastid DNA sequences and morphometrics, we inferred the
 phylogeography of the group and evaluated the species’ current taxonomic
 circumscriptions. Based on morphometric and AFLP data we propose a new
 circumscription for C. fragilis to additionally comprise a group of
 populations with intermediate morphological characters previously included
 in C. aequitriloba. Consequently, we suggest to change the IUCN category
 of C. fragilis from critically endangered (CR) to near threatened (NT).
 Both morphology and AFLP data support the current taxonomy of the single
 island endemics C. hepaticifolia and C. muelleri. The four species had a
 common origin in Corsica-Sardinia, and two long-distance dispersal events
 to the Balearic Islands were inferred. Finally, plastid DNA data suggest
 that interspecific gene flow took place where two species co-occur.
description: AFLP data
 matrixCymbW_STinput.nexBEAST continuous phylogeographic analisis xml filecymbW_200M.xmlSNAPP xml fileCymb_red_10M_default_count2.xmlcpDNA alignmentcp.fasBEAST discrete phylogeographic analysis cpDNAcp_newlocation.xml
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.71638rk
title: Data from: Validation of the hospital frailty risk score in a tertiary care hospital in Switzerland: results of a prospective, observational study

description: Objectives: Recently, the Hospital Frailty Risk Score based on a
 derivation and validation study in the United Kingdom has been proposed as
 a low-cost, systematic screening tool to identify older, frail patients
 who are at greater risk of adverse outcomes and for whom a frailty-attuned
 approach might be useful. We aimed to validate this Score in an
 independent cohort in Switzerland. Design: Secondary analysis of a
 prospective, observational study (TRIAGE study). Setting: One 600-bed
 tertiary care hospital in Aarau, Switzerland Participants: Consecutive
 medical inpatients aged 75 years or older that presented to the emergency
 department or were electively admitted between October 2015 and April
 2018. Primary and secondary outcome measures: The primary endpoint was
 all-cause 30-day mortality. Secondary endpoints were length of hospital
 stay, hospital readmission, functional impairment, and quality of life
 measures. We used multivariate regression analyses. Results: Of 4957
 included patients, 3150 (63.5%) were classified as low risk, 1663 (33.5%)
 intermediate risk, and 144 (2.9%) high risk for frailty. Compared to the
 low-risk group, patients in the moderate risk and high-risk groups had
 increased risk for 30-day mortality (odds ratio [OR] 2.53, 95%CI 2.09 to
 3.06, P&lt;0.001 and OR 4.40, 95%CI 2.94 to 6.57, P&lt;0.001) with
 overall moderate discrimination (area under the ROC curve 0.66). The
 results remained robust after adjustment for important confounders.
 Similarly, we found longer length of hospital stay, more severe functional
 impairment and a lower quality of life in higher risk group patients.
 Conclusion: Our data confirms the prognostic value of the Hospital Frailty
 Risk Score to identify older, frail people at risk for mortality and
 adverse outcomes in an independent patient population. Trial registration
 number: ClinicalTrials.gov; Identifier: NCT01768494
description: Validation of the
 Hospital frailty risk score datafileThis file contains part
 of the data used for our analyses in our publication Validation of the
 hospital frailty risk score in a Swiss tertiary care
 hospitalHospital_frailty_score_data.xlsx