cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ncjsxksw9
title: Data from: A burning issue: Savanna fire management can generate enough carbon revenue to help restore Africa’s rangelands and fill protected area funding gaps

description: Many savanna-dependent species in Africa including large herbivores and
 apex predators are at increasing risk of extinction.  Achieving
 effective management of protected areas (PAs) in Africa where lions live
 will cost an estimated USD &gt;$1-2 B/year in new funding. We explored
 the potential for fire management-based carbon-financing programs to fill
 this funding gap and benefit degrading savanna ecosystems. We demonstrated
 how introducing early dry season fire management programs could produce
 potential carbon revenues (PCR) from either a single carbon-financing
 method (avoided emissions) or from multiple sequestration methods ranging
 from USD $59.6-$655.9 M/year (at USD $5/ton) or USD $155.0 M–$1.7 B/year
 (at USD $13/ton).  We highlighted variable but significant PCR
 for savanna PAs from USD $1.5–$44.4 M/year per PA. We suggest investing in
 fire management programs to jump-start the United Nations Decade of
 Ecological Restoration to help restore degraded African savannas and
 conserve imperiled keystone herbivores and apex predators. 
description: Provided here are two tables and five zipped shapefiles and
 associated readme files.  The tables expand on the
 information provided in the publication. The shapefiles
 include the data used to produce figures 1 and 2 in the publication and
 figure S1 in the supplementary information. Read the
 methods section in the publication for more details.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5mkkwh777
title: Lack of avian predators is associated with behavioural plasticity in nest construction and height in an island songbird

description: Orange-crowned warblers, Leiothlypis celata sordida, breeding on the
 California Channel Islands exhibit remarkable variation in their nest
 structure and placement, providing an intriguing exception to the general
 pattern that avian nest structure and nest site selection are highly
 conserved characters. We examined nest construction at both the population
 and individual scale to test whether warblers on Santa Catalina Island
 change their nest construction in response to nest height. At the
 population level, warblers built both lighter, grass-dominated ground
 nests and heavier off-ground nests that contained more ridged materials
 and less grass. The probability of nest success was significantly and
 positively correlated with nest height. At the individual level, we found
 the same individuals were capable of building on- and off-ground nests
 between nesting attempts within the same season. However, nest
 construction was highly variable among individuals and not significantly
 correlated with nest success after controlling for nest height. We suggest
 this observed behavioural plasticity in nest construction and nest height
 is a hierarchical response to the absence of avian predators. Reduced risk
 from avian predators appears to allow the warblers to use a variety of
 nest sites, thereby necessitating increased flexibility in nest
 construction.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0p2ngf22t
title: Biota-mediated carbon cycling – a synthesis of biotic-interaction controls on blue carbon

description: Research on biotic interactions has been a core theme of ecology for over
 a century. However, despite the obvious role that biota play in the global
 carbon cycle, effects of biotic interactions on carbon pools and fluxes
 are poorly understood. Here we develop a conceptual framework that
 illustrates the importance of biotic interactions in regulating carbon
 cycling based on a literature review and quantitative synthesis by means
 of meta-analysis. Our study focuses on blue carbon ecosystems, vegetated
 coastal ecosystems that function as the most effective long-term CO2 sinks
 of the biosphere. We demonstrate that a multitude of mutualistic,
 competitive and consumer-resource interactions between plants, animals and
 microbiota exert strong effects on carbon cycling across various spatial
 scales ranging from the rhizosphere to the landscape scale. Climate-change
 sensitive abiotic factors modulate the strength of biotic-interaction
 effects on carbon fluxes, suggesting that the importance of biota-mediated
 carbon cycling will change under future climatic conditions Strong effects
 of biotic interactions on carbon cycling imply that biosphere-climate
 feedbacks may not be sufficiently represented in current Earth system
 models. Inclusion of new functional groups in these models, and new
 approaches to simplify species interactions, may thus improve predictions
 of biotic effects on the global climate.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0cfxpnw3p
title: Rawdatafiles for snow leopard population estimation

description: 1. Effective management of charismatic large carnivores requires robust
 monitoring of their population at local, regional and global scales. While
 enormous progress has been made to estimate carnivore populations at local
 scales, estimates at regional and global scales remain elusive. In the
 first systematic effort at a large regional scale, we estimated the
 population of the elusive snow leopard Panthera uncia over an area of
 26,112 km2 in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. 2. We stratified the
 entire snow leopard habitat in Himachal Pradesh based on an occupancy
 survey. Subsequently, we conducted camera trapping surveys at 10 sites
 distributed proportionately, i.e., with similar coverage probability
 across the three strata. We conducted simulations to understand how
 unidentified captures could affect our model estimate. We also assessed
 populations of the primary wild ungulate prey of snow leopards – blue
 sheep Psuedois nayaur and Siberian ibex Capra sibirica. 3. Our results
 yielded a mean estimated density of 0.19 (95% CI: 0.12 – 0.31) snow
 leopards per 100 km2 and population size of 51 (95% CI 34 – 73) snow
 leopards in Himachal Pradesh. The density estimates for individual sites
 ranged from 0.08 to 0.37 snow leopards per 100 km2. Simulations showed
 that unidentified snow leopard captures did not seem to affect the
 accuracy of our model estimate but could have affected the precision. Wild
 ungulate prey density ranged from 0.11 to 1.09 per km2. Snow leopard
 density showed a positive linear relationship with prey density (slope =
 0.25, SE = 0.08, P = 0.01, R2 = 0.51). 4. Our study shows the earlier
 opinion-based estimate for Himachal Pradesh to have been significantly
 positively biased. Using occupancy surveys to stratify large areas in
 order to design camera trap surveys addresses one of the common spatial
 sampling biases, i.e., limited sampling of only prime snow leopard
 habitats. Our work validates two-step approach recommended in the ongoing
 initiative of the 12 snow leopard range countries for Population
 Assessment of World’s Snow leopards (PAWS program), and cautions against
 the use of opinion-based estimates for assessing the status of species of
 critical conservation importance.
description: The capture history information file for snow leopards has a
 column called trapID. The information in this column has been encrypted to
 protect the location of camera traps where snow leopards were detected.
 Please contact the authors if you need to access this encrypted
 information.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.cc2fqz673
title: Genomic basis for skin phenotype and cold adaptation in the extinct Steller's sea cow

description: Steller’s sea cow, an extinct sirenian and one of the largest Quaternary
 mammals, was described by Georg Steller in 1741 and eradicated by humans
 within 27 years. Here, we complement Steller’s descriptions with
 paleogenomic data from 12 individuals. We identified convergent evolution
 between Steller’s sea cow and cetaceans but not extant sirenians,
 suggesting a role of several genes in adaptation to cold environments.
 Among these are inactivations of lipoxygenase genes, which in humans and
 mouse models cause ichthyosis – a skin disease characterized by a thick,
 hyperkeratotic epidermis that recapitulates Steller’s sea cows’ reportedly
 bark-like skin. Finally, we found that Steller’s sea cows’ abundance was
 continuously declining for tens of thousands of years prior to their
 description, implying that environmental changes also contributed to their
 extinction.
description: We extracted ancient DNA from fragmentary remains of 12 Steller’s
 sea cow individuals recovered from beaches of Bering Island, which we
 radiocarbon dated to 2205–1155 BP. We sequenced the genomes of two of the
 best preserved of these (SNMB N51667 from the Braunschweig Natural History
 Museum and SC16.JK045 from the collection of the Kamchatka Branch of the
 Pacific Geographical Institute, RAS Museum) to 15.86 and 15.63× coverage,
 respectively, and the remaining ten to an average coverage of 2.78× (range
 1.97–3.95×).
DOI: 10.15151/esrf-dc-1634320175
title: Pan-troglodytes male adult CCEC- 50001788

description: 3D reconstruction for Pan-troglodytes male adult CCEC-50001788. For further details regarding samples, measurements and data analysis, refer to the files and the article.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.tht76hf0x
title: Does the presence of the biological control agent, Hypena opulenta (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) on Swallow-Worts deter Monarch oviposition?

description: Abstract Invasive black and pale swallow-worts (Vincetoxicum nigrum (L.)
 Moench, and Vincetoxicum rossicum Kelopow), which are related to
 milkweeds, can act as ecological traps for monarch butterflies (Danaus
 plexippus L. (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)) as they lay eggs on them that
 fail to develop. A recently approved biological control agent against
 swallow-worts, Hypena opulenta Christoph, occupies the same feeding guild
 on swallow-worts as monarch larvae and could be perceived as a competitor
 to monarchs. We tested how the presence of this defoliating moth on
 swallow-worts may influence monarch host selection. In a two-year field
 experiment, we placed pale swallow-wort plants that were either infested
 with H. opulenta or noninfested as well as common milkweed (Asclepias
 syriaca L.), into monarch habitats to assess oviposition rates. In the
 laboratory, monarchs were either given a choice or not between milkweeds
 and black swallow-worts with or without H. opulenta. While monarchs
 strongly preferred common milkweed in the field, up to 25% of the eggs we
 observed were laid on pale swallow-wort, without preference for
 swallow-wort with (10.7%) or without (14.3%) H. opulenta. In laboratory
 choice and no-choice tests, monarchs did not lay any eggs on black
 swallow-wort, likely because of the long-term laboratory rearing on common
 milkweeds. Our results confirm that pale swallow-wort may act as an
 oviposition sink to monarchs in Michigan as well. Since the biological
 control program is still in its infancy, the nature of interactions
 between monarchs and H. opulenta may change as the biocontrol agent
 becomes more widespread.
description: See manuscript for details
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.sqv9s4n57
title: Impact of improved ocean initial condition on the seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon

description: In this study, an effort has been made to show the impact of improved
 ocean initial condition in the coupled forecast system (CFSv2) on the
 seasonal prediction skill of Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR). CFSv2
 is used as an operational dynamical model for the seasonal prediction of
 ISMR. The new improved ocean initial condition is based on Global
 Ocean Data Assimilation System (GODAS) analysis and is produced
 by assimilating vertical profiles of observed temperature and salinity
 from all the sources (XBTs, buoys and Argo profiling floats) over the
 global ocean using 3Dvar assimilation scheme and MOM4p1 ocean model. This
 new analysis is improved compared to the NCEP GODAS which uses earlier
 generation MOM4p0d and assimilates observed temperature and synthetic
 salinity. Twin sets of identical model experiments differing in initial
 conditions (IC) with the former (later) using NCEP IC (new IC; NIC) are
 performed. The NIC experiment shows consistent enhancement of ENSO skill
 compared to NCEP IC. This advancement leads to the improvement of ISMR
 skill. We found that the significant improvement of surface and
 sub-surface temperature, thermocline depth, and heat content over the
 global ocean particularly in the Nino3 region in the NIC compared to NCEP
 IC contributed to the improved ISMR skills. This enhanced ISMR skill score
 might be the result of reduced model drift in the NIC even on 4 month lead
 and capturing the ISMR – ENSO teleconnection with great fidelity.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.h44j0zpmg
title: Whole genome resequencing data enables a targeted SNP panel for conservation and aquaculture of Oreochromis cichlid fishes

description: Cichlid fish of the genus Oreochromis form the basis of the global tilapia
 aquaculture and fisheries industries. Broodstocks for aquaculture are
 often collected from wild populations, which in Africa may be from
 locations containing multiple Oreochromis species. However, many species
 are difficult to distinguish morphologically, hampering efforts to
 maintain good quality farmed strains. Additionally, non-native farmed
 tilapia populations are known to be widely distributed across Africa and
 to hybridize with native Oreochromis species, which themselves are
 important for capture fisheries. The morphological identification of these
 hybrids is particularly unreliable. Here, we describe the development of a
 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping panel from whole-genome
 resequencing data that enables targeted species identification in
 Tanzania. We demonstrate that an optimized panel of 96 genome-wide SNPs
 based on FST outliers performs comparably to whole genome resequencing in
 distinguishing species and identifying hybrids. We also show this panel
 outperforms microsatellite-based and phenotype-based classification
 methods. Case studies indicate several locations where introduced
 aquaculture species have become established in the wild, threatening
 native Oreochromis species. The novel SNP markers identified here
 represent an important resource for assessing broodstock purity in
 hatcheries and helping to conserve unique endemic biodiversity.
description: Set of 118 SNPs for the tested <em>Oreochromis
 niloticus</em>, <em>urolepis</em>, <em>leucostictus </em>and hybrids, as well as the reduced 96 SNP set.
description: Datafiles: all118.ped and .map are the full
 SNP panel dataset for all 168 individuals<br> top96.ped and .map are
 the most informative 96 SNPs (subset of the 118 SNPs) (according to PC
 loading scores) for all 168 individuals. all118.ped -
 PLINK format ped file for all 118 SNP panel SNPs<br> all118.map -
 PLINK format map file for all118.ped<br> top96.ped - PLINK format
 ped file for all 118 SNP panel SNPs<br> top96.map - PLINK format map
 file for all118.ped Citation:<br> Whole genome
 resequencing data enables a targeted SNP panel for conservation and
 aquaculture of Oreochromis cichlid fishes. 2022. Aquaculture. 548 part
 2. Contact:<br>
 adam.ciezarek@earlham.ac.uk<br>
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.pg4f4qrqw
title: A forest pool as a habitat island for mites in a limestone forest in Southern Norway

description: Forest water bodies, e.g., pools, constitute ‘environmental islands’
 within forests, with specific flora and fauna thus contributing
 considerably to the landscape biodiversity. The mite communities of
 Oribatida and Mesostigmata in two distinctive microhabitats, water-soaked
 Sphagnum mosses at the edge of a pool and other mosses growing on the
 medium-wet forest floor nearby, were compared in a limestone forest in
 Southern Norway. In total, 16,189 specimens of Oribatida representing 98
 species, and 499 specimens of Mesostigmata, from 23 species, were found.
 The abundance and species number of Oribatida were significantly lower at
 the pool, while the abundance and species richness of Mesostigmata did not
 differ. Both the communities of Oribatida and of Mesostigmata differed
 among the microhabitats studied and analysis showed significant
 differences between the community structures in the two microhabitats. The
 most abundant oribatid species in Sphagnum mosses was Parachipteria
 fanzagoi (Jacot, 1929), which made up over 30% of all Oribatida, followed
 by Atropacarus striculus (Koch, 1835) and Tyrphonothrus maior (Berlese,
 1910) (14% and 12% of Oribatida, respectively). Among Mesostigmata
 Paragamasus parrunciger (Bhattacharyya, 1963) dominated (44% of
 Mesostigmata), followed by P. lapponicus (Trägårdh, 1910) (14% of
 Mesostigmata). Most of these species, except P. lapponicus, were either
 absent or very uncommon in the other microhabitat studied. The specific
 acarofauna of the forest pool shows the importance of such microhabitats
 in increasing forest diversity. In addition, a quarter of the mite species
 found had not been reported from Norwegian broadleaf forests before,
 including five new species records for Norway and four new to
 Fennoscandia, all found in the medium-wet microhabitat. Most of these
 species are rarely collected and have their northernmost occurrence in the
 studied forest.
description: In total, 11 samples, each with a volume of 500 cm<sup>3
 </sup>(ca 100 cm<sup>2 </sup>in area and<sup>
 </sup>5 cm deep), were collected by hand on 12 June 2017 from two
 types of forest microhabitat (Figure 2), (A) water-soaked
 <i>Sphagnum</i> mosses at the edge of a pool (five samples)
 and, (B) other mosses growing on the medium-wet forest floor nearby (six
 samples). Mites were extracted using modified Tullgren funnels for 14 days
 into 90% ethanol and sorted out from the samples under stereomicroscope.
 Oribatida were mounted on cavity slides in 90% lactic acid (AnalaR
 NORMAPUR, VWR Chemicals, Belgium) and adult specimens were identified
 using the keys [15–18], while juveniles were identified based on other
 publications. Mesostigmata were mounted on permanent slides in PVA
 mounting medium (lactic acid, poly vinyl acetate and phenol solution,
 BioQuip Products, Inc., Compton, CA, USA) and identified following
 publications.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.qv9s4mwg1
title: The effect of plant invasion on soil microbial carbon-use efficiency in semiarid grasslands of the Rocky Mountain West

description: 1. Grassland ecosystems invaded by exotic plant species often exhibit
 substantially higher aboveground productivity and soil nitrogen (N) than
 the native communities they replace. These shifts are likely associated
 with altered microbial carbon (C) and N cycling, but we know surprisingly
 little about how these processes change with plant invasion. 2. Targeting
 four invasive plant species common in the Rocky Mountain West, we
 collected soils from invaded and adjacent uninvaded grassland field plots,
 as well as from an experimental garden. We used a laboratory incubation of
 soils with 13C- and 15N-labelled substrates to examine how microbial C
 respiration, C assimilation, and N cycling differed among plant
 communities. To assess how these rates corresponded with plant
 productivity and microbial communities, we measured aboveground plant
 biomass and characterized bacterial and fungal communities using Illumina
 sequencing. 3. In the paired observational plots, soil microbial
 communities associated with invaders generally had higher respiration
 rates and lower growth rates than those associated with the native plant
 communities, leading to a lower microbial carbon-use efficiency (CUE).
 Overall, soil substrate with a lower C:N was related to decreased CUE, and
 lower CUE was related to increased gross and net N mineralization. In
 turn, faster gross N mineralization was related to greater aboveground
 biomass. These patterns coincided with significant differences in fungal
 communities, whereas bacterial communities varied by site. Invasive plants
 also altered microbial communities in the experimental plots, but this was
 not associated with shifts in microbial CUE, which was low overall. 4.
 Synthesis. Our results provide evidence that invasive plants alter
 bacterial and fungal communities. These shifts were not associated with
 changes in microbial CUE and, thus, the often-assumed link between
 compositional and functional shifts was not apparent in this study.
 However, lower CUE was associated with elevated rates of N cycling and
 productivity, which, in low-productivity systems, could help explain the
 increased growth and success of exotic plant invaders.
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.5qfttdz6m
title: Differences in dogs’ event related potentials in response to human and dog vocal stimuli: A non-invasive study

description: Recent advances in the field of canine neuro-cognition allow for the
 non-invasive research of brain mechanisms in family dogs. Considering the
 striking similarities between dog’s and human (infant)’s socio-cognition
 at the behavioural level, both similarities and differences in neural
 background can be of particular relevance. The current study investigates
 brain responses of N=17 family dogs to human and conspecific emotional
 vocalisations using a fully non-invasive ERP paradigm. We found that
 similarly to humans, dogs show a differential ERP response depending on
 the species of the caller demonstrated by a more positive ERP response to
 human vocalisations compared to dog vocalisations in a time-window between
 250-650 ms after stimulus onset. A later time-window between 800-900 ms
 also revealed a valence sensitive ERP response in interaction with the
 species of the caller. Our results are the first ERP evidence to show the
 species sensitivity of vocal neural processing in dogs along with
 indications of valence sensitive processes in later post-stimulus
 time-periods.
description: All of the data was collected at the Department of Ethology,
 ELTE, Budapest, Hungary. The Matlab datasets contain averaged ERP values
 of 17 family dogs, recorded on 4 different channels, with three additional
 channels created for the visual artefact rejection process, both for the
 Main (1 second long segments) and the Extended analysis (2 seconds long
 segments), this later is refered to with the 'long' tag. The
 subject averages of the 17 subjects are also provided.
 The two excel files contain the averaged values of the 100 ms
 long, overlapping time-windows, which were used for the statistical
 analysis. The RStudio script for the statistics and the RStudio and Matlab
 scripts for the visualization are also included. The
 README file further elaborates about the usage of the dataset.
description: There are no missing values in the dataset. The needed packages
 for each script are also indicated in the README file.
DOI: 10.15468/dl.w7me64
title: Occurrence Download

description: A dataset containing 12 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query:
{
 "and" : [
 "Country is China",
 "GadmGid is one of (CHN.15_1, CHN.31_1, CHN.1_1, CHN.4_1, CHN.24_1, CHN.16_1, CHN.23_1)",
 "HasCoordinate is true",
 "HasGeospatialIssue is false",
 "OccurrenceStatus is Present",
 "TaxonKey is Lepomis",
 "Year 2006-2026"
 ]
}

 The dataset includes 12 records from 1 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0002988-260126135527185/datasets/export for details.
 
Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.