cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.gf1vhhmrf
title: Wildfowl cripping in Illinois

description: Globally, there is increasing effort to transition away from the use of
 lead ammunition to mitigate its known risks to wildlife and human health.
 Whenever this transition is stated hunters frequently cite concerns about
 the effectiveness of non-lead ammunition, how it will result in greater
 crippling rates, and associated animal welfare costs. This area has been
 little studied, but recent studies have found no differences in crippling
 rates using lead and steel ammunition. Using segmented linear regression
 we evaluated 37 years of waterfowl harvest data in Illinois, United
 States, overlapping the transition to non-lead shot for waterfowl hunting
 in order to assess how crippling rates changed following the ban. The
 average crippling rate prior to the lead shot ban was 23% for both ducks
 and geese and reduced to an average of 15% and 11% for ducks and geese
 (respectively) following the ban. In addition, the annual trend in the
 proportion of ducks and geese crippled reversed following the ban, from a
 significant annually increasing to a significant annually decreasing
 trend. We offer hypotheses on behavioural and technological changes which
 may explain these changes and predict that crippling losses will not
 increase in Europe following a ban on the use of lead ammunition over
 wetlands in 2023.
description: Annual postal surveys of waterfowl permit purchasers in Illinois,
 USA. Full details in annual reports, available from
 https://human-dimensions.inhs.illinois.edu/waterfowl/
description: No missing data, no special usage notes
DOI: 10.25625/ducdkj
title: Meta Data for "Associative Memory Learning Through Redundancy Maximization"

description: Meta Data for a conference proceeding from Blümel et al. Paper includes only simulation work.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.6t1g1jx0w
title: Seismic data Krysuvik Iceland

description: Microearthquake hypocenters were analysed in the Krýsuvík geothermal area
 in SW-Iceland with data taken from two consecutive passive seismic
 surveys, 2005 and 2009. Five years prior to the 2005 survey, this area was
 struck by an earthquake initiating a major top-to-bottom fluid migration
 in the upper crust. We observe from our surveys a complex bottom-to-top
 migration of seismicity with time following this fluid penetration,
 suggesting the migration of a pore pressure front controlled by the
 upper-crust fracture system. We interpret these data as the time and space
 development of high-temperature hydrothermal cells from a deep upper
 crustal fluid reservoir in the supercritical field. These results provide
 an insight into the coupling mechanisms between active tectonics and fluid
 flow in upper-crustal extensional systems with high thermal flux.
description: 2005 Data File
 See: Geoffroy and Dorbath,
 GRL, 2008, doi: 10.1029/2008GL034514 2009 Data File P and S-arrival times of 6,100
 events were detected by at least 10 stations. First, the earthquakes were
 located using the local 1D Vp model. Second, arrival times for the 2830
 best-located events, including differential arrival times measured by
 cross correlation, were inverted using TomoDD, which solves simultaneously
 absolute hypocenter locations with relative constraints and 3D P- and
 S-waves velocity structure. To increase the robustness of the velocity
 model as well as earthquake relocation, and to reduce dependency on the
 initial model velocity and the grid parametrization, we applied the
 post-processing WAM (Weighted Average Model) method. This method consists
 of calculating a semblance-weighted average of many velocity models
 inverted with various geometries of the input velocity grid. It allows
 estimating the reliability of the velocity anomalies based on the standard
 deviation of the velocity values at each node of the fixed grid. The final
 uncertainty of hypocenter locations was estimated less than 140 m in the
 three directions.
description: 1) Those data are currently exploited in on-going research ending
 January, 1 2024. 2) See README file for the use of the
 dataset
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.x69p8czkf
title: Marginal imprint of human land use upon fire history in a mire-dominated boreal landscape of the Veps Highland, North-West Russia

description: Spatially explicit reconstructions of fire activity in European boreal
 forests are rare, limiting our understanding of factors driving vegetation
 dynamics in this part of the boreal domain. We have developed a spatially
 explicit dendrochronological reconstruction of a fire regime in a
 mire-dominated landscape of the Veps Nature Park (North-West Russia) over
 the 1580-2000 CE period. We dated 74 fire years using 164 fire-scarred
 living and dead Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) trees collected on 31
 sites. The historical fire cycle was 91.4 years (90% confidence intervals,
 CI 66.2–137.6 years) over the 1580–1720 period, decreasing to 35.9 (CI
 28.1–47.6 years) between 1730 and 1770, and then increasing again to 122.7
 years (CI 91.0–178.0 years) over the 1780–2000 period. The reconstructed
 forest fire history featured a number of patterns clearly deviating from
 the trends documented in previous Northern European reconstructions. The
 most striking feature was the absence of a period with increased fire
 activity during the 1600s, a pattern widely observed in Fennoscandia and
 in Russian Karelia. We noted, however, a higher fire activity period
 between 1730 and 1780, resulting from the increase in early season fires.
 Land-use history of the area did not appear to have an effect on
 historical fire dynamics. The current FC in the Veps Highland is close to
 the estimates reported for the pre-industrial colonisation period in
 Fennoscandia, which suggests that the area's forests currently
 maintain their close-to-natural fire regime.
description: We sampled 31
 sites, each one to two ha, during 1999, 2001 and 2004. Each fire
 reconstruction site represented an area of one to two hectares. To ensure
 an equal distribution of the sampling effort among sites, we inventoried
 each site for 1.5 h, by thoroughly searching the area for the presence of
 living and dead trees with fire scars. We used<br>chainsaws to
 extract wedges from living trees and snags and, in the case of stumps, we
 extracted cross-sections. We collected between five and 12 samples at each
 site, acquiring a total of 164 samples of Scots pine
 (<em>Pinus sylvestris</em> L.) via 69 living and 95 dead
 trees. All of our sites were located at least six km away from the nearest
 villages.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bg79cnpc7
title: Increasing pollen production at high latitudes across animal-pollinated flowering plants

description: Aim: Plant reliance on animal mutualists is expected to decrease with
 latitude owing to increasing environmental instability. As a consequence,
 more erratic animal pollination in the temperate zones than in the tropics
 could translate into lower efficiency in pollen transfer, and thus
 increasing pollen wastage. Despite the relevance of this hypothesis for
 plant reproductive evolution, the implications of a proposed latitudinal
 gradient in pollinator reliability for pollen and ovule production, traits
 directly affecting seed siring and seed set, respectively, remain
 unresolved. Location: Global. Time period:1971-2020. Major taxa studied:
 Angiospermae. Methods: Based on a bibliographic survey and our own data,
 we collated a dataset with information on pollen production (P) and ovule
 number (O) per flower from 419 studies, including a total of 1392
 animal-pollinated angiosperm species from 141 families distributed
 worldwide and sampled between the equator and 68.35o latitude. Using
 phylogenetic general linear mixed models, we investigated latitudinal
 variation in P and O. We also tested a latitudinal effect on several
 ancillary plant traits associated with a plant’s mating system and
 pollinator specialization that might confound any latitudinal effect on
 gamete production. Results: P but not O was positively associated with
 latitude, a trend that even became stronger after including the
 latitudinally-varying ancillary traits (i.e., growth form, flower size,
 flower symmetry and number of pollinator orders). The latitudinal effect
 on P was more pronounced among species producing large flowers, a trait
 that could be linked to self-incompatibility and thus outcrossing. A weak
 phylogenetic patterning of P also indicates high evolvability potential of
 this trait that can have an effect on both male and female plant fitness.
 Main conclusions: Even though a latitudinal trend in pollinator
 reliability still awaits direct testing, the observed latitudinal increase
 in P across angiosperms can be interpreted as an evolutionary consequence
 of an increasingly unpredictable pollination environment.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tdz08kq1k
title: Kin recognition in Drosophila: Rearing environment and relatedness can modulate gut microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbon odour profiles

description: From inbreeding avoidance to kin-selected cooperation, social behaviours
 are frequently reliant on kin recognition. However, kin recognition
 mechanisms are costly to evolve and currently not very well understood.
 Recent evidence suggests that, by altering their host’s odour, gut and
 other host-associated microorganisms may provide a promising avenue for
 understanding kin recognition. In Drosophila melanogaster, kin recognition
 can mediate mate choice, sexual conflict and larval
 competition/cooperation, underscoring its important functional role. As is
 commonly the case, kin recognition in this species depends on both
 familiarity (i.e. shared rearing environment) and relatedness, and seems
 to rely mainly on body odours determined by cuticular hydrocarbons. Here,
 we investigated the degree to which larval rearing environment and
 relatedness (full-sibs vs. unrelated) determine co-variation between gut
 microbiota and cuticular hydrocarbons in D. melanogaster. We found that
 rearing environment strongly determined both microbiota and cuticular
 hydrocarbon composition, but that these effects were independent from each
 other. In contrast, relatedness did not influence microbiota composition,
 but had a strong influence on microbiota diversity, which in turn covaried
 significantly with cuticular hydrocarbon composition. Our results show
 that, in D. melanogaster, odours may convey information about both
 familiarity and relatedness via an interaction between: a) direct effects
 of the rearing environment on cuticular hydrocarbons and b) indirect
 effects of relatedness on cuticular hydrocarbons via gut microbiota
 diversity.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.c2fqz619p
title: Data from: Functional traits underlying performance variations in the overwintering of the cosmopolitan invasive plant water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) under climate warming and water drawdown

description: Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicate
 that temperature rise is still the general trend of the global climate in
 the 21st century. Invasive species may benefit from the increase in
 temperature, as climate can be viewed as a resource, and the increase in
 the available resources favors the invasibility of invasive species. This
 study aimed to assess the overwintering growth of the cosmopolitan
 invasive plant water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) at its northern
 boundary. Using E. crassipes as a model plant, a cross-year mesocosm
 experiment was conducted to determine 17 plant functional traits,
 including growth, morphological, root topological, photosynthetic and
 stoichiometric traits, under climate warming (ambient, temperature rises
 of 1.5°C and 3.0°C) and water drawdown or water withdrawal (water depths
 of 1 cm, 10 cm and 20 cm) treatments. The overwintering growth of E.
 crassipes was facilitated by climate warming and proper water drawdown,
 and climate warming played a leading role. A temperature rises of 3.0°C
 and a water depth of 10 cm were the most suitable conditions for the
 overwintering and rooting behavior of the plant. Controlling the
 temperature to within 1.5°C, an ambitious goal for China, still
 facilitated the overwintering of E. crassipes. With climate warming, the
 plant can overwinter successfully, which possibly assists it in producing
 and spreading new ramets in the vernal flood season. The new rooting
 behavior induced by ambient low temperature may be viewed as a unique
 growth adaptation strategy for a niche change, as it helps these plants
 invade empty niches left by dead free-floating plants on the water surface
 following winter freezes. With continued global warming, the distribution
 of the plant may expand northward, and eradication of the plant during the
 winter water drawdown period may be a more effective strategy.
description: The ventilation system was
 connected to YX-WSD temperature and humidity transducers (Shengyan
 Electronic Technology Co., Ltd, Handan, Hebei, China), which possessed
 sensitive water-resistant probes for data collection and were placed at
 a height of 75 cm in each cylinder. The air
 temperature inside and outside the two conservatories was recorded every
 15 minutes.
description: Please refer to README file.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.bg79cnpc8
title: Dust deposition in Red Sea corals

description: Climate change-related increase in seawater temperature has become a
 leading cause of coral bleaching and mortality. However, corals from the
 northern Red Sea show high thermal tolerance and no recorded massive
 bleaching event. This specific region is frequently subjected to intense
 dust storms, coming from the surrounding arid deserts, which are expected
 to increase in frequency and intensity in the future. The aerial dust
 deposition supplies essential bioelements to the water column. Here, we
 investigated the effect of dust deposition on the physiology of a Red Sea
 coral, Stylophora pistillata. We measured the modifications in coral and
 Symbiodiniaceae metallome (cellular metal content), as well as the changes
 in photosynthesis and oxidative stress status of colonies exposed during
 few weeks to dust deposition. Our results show that 1 mg L-1 of dust
 supplied nanomolar amounts of nitrate and other essential bioelements,
 such as iron, manganese, zinc, and copper, rapidly assimilated by the
 symbionts. At 25 °C, metal bioaccumulation enhanced the chlorophyll
 concentration and photosynthesis of dust-exposed corals compared to
 control corals. These results suggest that primary production was limited
 by metal availability in seawater. A 5 °C increase in seawater temperature
 enhanced iron assimilation in both control and dust-enriched corals.
 Temperature rise increased the photosynthesis of control corals only,
 dust-exposed ones having already reached maximal photosynthesis rates at
 25 °C. Finally, we observed a combined effect of temperature and
 bioelement concentration on the assimilation of molybdenum, cadmium,
 manganese, and copper, which were in higher concentrations in symbionts of
 dust-exposed corals maintained at 30 °C. All together these observations
 highlight the importance of dust deposition in the supply of essential
 bioelements, such as iron, to corals and its role in sustaining coral
 productivity in Red Sea reefs.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.rv15dv48x
title: DNA-based assessment of environmental degradation in an unknown fauna: the freshwater macroinvertebrates of the Indo-Burmese hotspot

description: New methods are required for biomonitoring of poorly known tropical
 ecosystems, but biological assessments of environmental status are limited
 by insufficient information on taxonomy, composition, and ecology of local
 communities. The current work applies DNA-based assessment to establish
 the impact of various types of anthropogenic disturbances on the
 freshwater macroinvertebrates in an understudied biodiversity hotspot in
 South Asia, an area that attracts increasing attention for the loss of
 aquatic ecosystems. We sampled 16 river systems in the Chittagong Hill
 Tracts region of Bangladesh and characterised habitat intactness based on
 a set of 14 environmental parameters associated with habitat quality and
 human activities. Whole-community metabarcoding was used to investigate
 the distribution of hypothetical species-level clusters (Operational
 Taxonomic Units, OTUs) across sites of different impacts. We found
 &gt;900 DNA clusters of insects, decapods and molluscs, dominated by
 Diptera, which revealed significant variation (p&lt;0.001) in richness
 across sites. The presumed sensitive Ephemeroptera-Plecoptera-Trichoptera
 (EPT) represented 15.6% of total OTU richness. The type and strength of
 anthropogenic stressors varied greatly across streams but did not affect
 total OTU diversity. In contrast, EPT richness decreased by ~50% in
 response to habitat degradation. Partial-network analysis revealed 26 OTUs
 that may serve as potential indicators for either good or poor ecological
 status. Overall, our results document high diversity, local endemicity and
 pronounced responses to disturbance in these largely unexplored but
 threatened habitats. Synthesis and applications: The proposed methodology
 combines local habitat surveys across sites of various degrees of
 disturbance with species-level metabarcoding, as a model for biological
 evaluation of water bodies in poorly known and inaccessible places across
 the world. Implemented here for the Indo-Burmese hotspot, the approach
 will have great value for applied conservation management as a step
 towards building a biomonitoring system in this region where currently
 little is known about the taxonomy, diversity and endemicity in both
 intact and disturbed ecosystems.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.2rbnzs7pz
title: Data from: Investigating human repeatability of a computer vision based task to identify meristems on a potato plant (Solanum tuberosum)

description: Labelled training data in artificial intelligence (AI) is used to teach
 so-called 'supervised learning models'. However, such data may
 contain error or bias, which can impact model prediction accuracy. Thus,
 obtaining accurate training data is of high importance. In applications of
 AI, such as in classification and detection problems, raw training data is
 not always made available in published research. Likewise, the process of
 obtaining labelled data is not always documented well enough to enable
 reproducibility. This training data set captures a repeatability exercise
 in AI training data collection for a task that is difficult for humans to
 perform, delineating a bounding box in a two-dimensional image of a
 growing apical meristem in potato plants.
description: Labelled image acquisition
 for repeatability was carried out by multiple observers, each identifying
 bounding boxes of the apical meristems on potato plants from images.
 Additionally, repeatability of bounding box identification was assessed by
 two separate methods, 'live labelling' (an expert was present
 indicating the centre of each meristem) and 'computer labelling'
 (the observer identified the bounding boxes without an expert
 supervising). Labelling was performed on n=10 unique images, a total of
 three times each (thus obtaining n = 30 bounding box sets per observer).
 In this experiment, ten observers completed the computer labelling task,
 and 3 observers also completed the live labelling task. Bounding box
 coordinates were captured via a graphical user interface program, adapted
 from the popular program Yolo_mark (https://github.com/weharris/yolo_mark_utility).
description: Contents
 <b>•“SURNAME-stem-repeatability.zip” </b>file
 contains folder with 30 images (10 unique) and bounding box data capture
 program <b>“desktop_image_labeller.py”</b>
 <b>•“Tuber-stem-repeatability-instructions.docx”</b>-<b> </b>instructions for observers taking part in the computer experiment <b>•“further-information-distance-between-centres.docx” </b>- details on the distance between centers measurement <b>•“boxes.xlsx” </b>- dataset explaining the information for each individual bounding box <b>•“c_dist.xlsx” </b>- dataset for the distance between the centers <b>•“stems.xlsx” </b>- dataset providing information on the number of stems identified per image <b>• “repeatability-images-cheat-sheet.xlsx” </b>– dataset providing a key to the unique images that have been replicated three times <b>•“</b><b>DRYAD-README.docx</b><b>” </b>- Use notes for repeatability data capture and associated documents
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.kd51c5b76
title: No signs of behavioral evolution of threespine stickleback following northern pike invasion

description: Invasive predators often impose devastating selection pressures on native
 prey species. However, their effects can be regionally-dependent and
 influenced by local ecological conditions of their invaded habitats.
 Evolved behavioral phenotypes are important mechanisms by which prey adapt
 to the presence of novel predators. Here, we asked how behavior and
 behavioral plasticity of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
 populations have evolved following the introduction of the invasive
 predator, northern pike (Esox lucius). We examined the behavior of F1
 offspring generated from three pike-free and three pike-invaded
 populations, and measured how stickleback activity and refuge use
 behaviors, and their plasticity, have evolved following pike introduction.
 To evaluate plasticity, we exposed juvenile stickleback to predator cues
 during their first year of development, and then evaluated how this
 repeated exposure influenced behavioral responses to an artificial
 predation event. We found no overarching effect of pike in either evolved
 behaviors or behavioral plasticity, and no evidence for the presence of
 developmental plasticity. Furthermore, we that depending on the phenotype,
 pike-invaded stickleback populations have either more, or less
 among-population variation than pike-free populations. Our results suggest
 that evolution in response to an invasive predator may be hidden
 by local adaptation when enough populations are studied.