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Data from: Assessing the impacts of positive selection on coalescent-based species tree estimation and species delimitation.
The assumption of strictly neutral evolution is fundamental to the multispecies coalescent model and permits the derivation of gene tree distributions and coalescent times conditioned on a given species tree. In this study, we conduct computer simulations to explore the effects of violating this assumption in the form of species-specific positive selection when estimating species trees, species delimitations, and coalescent parameters under the model. We simulated datasets under an array of evolutionary scenarios that differ in both speciation parameters (i.e., divergence times, strength of selection) and experimental design (i.e., number of loci sampled) and incorporated species-specific positive selection occurring within branches of a species tree to identify the effects of selection on multispecies coalescent inferences. Our results highlight particular evolutionary scenarios and parameter combinations in which inferences may be more, or less, susceptible to the effects of positive selection. In some extreme cases, selection can decrease error in species delimitation and increase error in species tree estimation, yet these inferences appear to be largely robust to the effects of positive selection under many conditions likely to be encountered in empirical datasets.
Data from: What shapes cerambycid beetle communities in a tropical forest mosaic? Assessing the effects of host tree identity, forest structure, and vertical stratification
Due to anthropogenic activities, tropical rain forests face many challenges in sustaining biodiversity and maintaining global climates. This study explores how forest successional stage, tree composition, and stratum affect communities of saproxylic cerambycid beetles—concealed feeders that play important roles in forest nutrient cycling. Forty trees in five families (Fabaceae, Lecythidaceae, Malvaceae, Moraceae, and Sapotaceae) were sampled in a mosaic of old-growth and secondary forest on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Bait branches yielded 3549 cerambycid individuals in 49 species. Species richness was almost identical in old-growth and secondary forest, and both yielded specialists, but abundance was higher in old-growth forest. Overall community structure was most strongly influenced by host plant species; within most plant families it was also impacted by forest successional status. Moraceae was the exception, presumably because the focal tree species was abundant in both old-growth and secondary forest. Several host and old-growth specialist species reached high densities within patches of old-growth forest, but seldom colonized apparently suitable trees within secondary forest. This suggests that even small areas of old-growth forest can act as refuges, but that secondary forest may act as a barrier to dispersal. The vulnerability of specialized saproxylic insects to land use change will be linked to the ability of their preferred hosts to disperse to and persist in successional habitats; rearing studies may provide the most accurate method to monitor community changes over time.
Assessing the potential for indirect interactions between tropical tree species via shared insect seed predators
Natural enemies of plants have the potential to influence the dynamics of plant populations and the structure of plant communities. In diverse tropical forests research on the effects of plant enemies has largely focused on the diversity-enhancing effects of highly specialised enemies, while the community-level effects of enemies with broader diets have rarely been considered. We investigated the community of insect seed predators interacting with seven tree species in the family Lauraceae on Barro Colorado Island (Panama). We present one of the first quantitative food webs for pre-dispersal insect seed predators and their host plants, and use the information in the web to assess the potential for indirect interactions between the tree species. Our data suggest that there is high potential for indirect interactions between Lauraceae species via their shared seed predators. The strength and direction of these interactions is largely unrelated to the phylogenetic distance and trait similarity between species but are likely governed by the volume of fruit produced by each tree species.
FIGURE 1. Neighbor joining tree for 34 in Revision of the Australian Oenochroma vinaria Guenée, 1858 species-complex (Lepidoptera: Geometridae, Oenochrominae): DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity and assesses status of type specimen without dissection
FIGURE 1. Neighbor joining tree for 34 Australian specimens in the genus Oenochroma (Kimura 2 Parameter, built with MEGA4; all codon positions unweighted) based on sequences of the mtDNA COI gene (barcoding fragment 5'). Values above branches are bootstrap support values superior to 95%. Terminals are identified by their process ID code on BOLD.
FIGURE 1. Phylogenetic tree for Cyt b in A phylogenetic assessment of the meadow lizard Darevskia praticola (Eversmann, 1834) from Iran
FIGURE 1. Phylogenetic tree for Cyt b gene, aS BayeSian and ML analySeS Show Similar tree topologieS only the ML tree iS preSented. NumberS on brancheS are bootStrap Support valueS for ML (below) and poSterior probability valueS for BayeSian (above) analySeS. Only valueS greater than 70 and 0.7, reSpectively, are Shown
Data and code for "Assessing the spatial scale of synchrony in forest tree population dynamics"
<p>The data sets and code provided here facilitate reproduction of our results from this paper on synchrony of forest tree population dynamics. </p> <h3>Description of the data and file structure</h3> <p>The analyses in the paper were conducted at three scales, and each involves its own data files:</p> <ul> <li>Local scale: The relevant data files are named, e.g., "BCI1-7,L=250m,dbh=100mm.Rdata", where "BCI1-7" indicates the ForestGEO site name ("BCI") and census intervals (1 to 7 for BCI), "L=250m" indicates the quadrat size, and "dbh=100mm" indicates the diameter-at-breast height (DBH) threshold used. There are 12 such files (two ForestGEO plots--BCI and Pasoh--times three quadrat sizes times two DBH thresholds). Each file contains a single list "N_all", whose length is equal to the number of quadrats at the given grain. Each element in the list is a data frame containing mean census times (in days), tree species' population sizes and number of survivors across the two censuses for the corresponding quadrat.</li> <li>Regional scale: The relevant data files are "Marena_data,dbh=100mm,spp_anonymised.Rdata" and "Marena_data,dbh=100mm,spp_anonymised.Rdata". Each file contains three objects: "dists" is a matrix giving the distances between all pairs of sites; "N_all1" is a list with one element for each plot, and each element being a data frame with (anonymised) species ids in the first column and abundances in the remaining columns (column names give mean census dates in days); "S_all1" has a similar structure to "N_all1" except that the data give numbers of survivors from any given census to any subsequent census (column headings indicate the two census numbers).</li> <li>Global scale: The relevant data files are "global_data,dbh=10mm,spp_anonymised.Rdata" and "global_data,dbh=100mm,spp_anonymised.Rdata". The data in the files have the same structure as in the regional-scale files.</li> </ul>
Supplementary data: What drives grassland-forest boundaries? Assessing fire and frost effects on tree seedling survival and architecture
<ol> <li>Fire and frost represent two major hurdles for the persistence of trees in open grassy biomes and have both been proposed as drivers of grassland-forest boundaries in Africa.</li> <li>We assess the response of young tree seedlings, which represent a vulnerable stage in tree recruitment, to traumatic fire and frost disturbances.</li> <li>In a greenhouse experiment, we investigated how seedling traits predicted survival and resprouting ability in response to fire <i>vs</i> frost; we characterised survival strategies of seedlings in response to the two disturbances, and we documented how the architecture of surviving seedlings is affected by fire <i>vs</i> frost injury.</li> <li>Survival rates were similar under both treatments. However, different species displayed different levels of sensitivity to fire and frost. Seedling survival was higher for older seedlings and seedlings with more basal leaves. Survivors of a fire event lost more biomass than the survivors of a frost event. However, the architecture of recovered fire and frost treated seedlings were mostly similar. Seedlings that recovered from fire and frost treatments were often shorter than those that had not been exposed to any disturbance, with multiple thin branches, which may increase vulnerability to the next frost or fire event.</li> <li> <i>Synthesis</i>. Fire caused more severe aboveground damage compared to a single frost event, suggesting that fire is an important driver of tree distribution in these open grassland systems. However, the impact of repeated frost events may be equally severe, and needs to be investigated. Also, woody species composition may be influenced by phenomena that affect the timing and frequency of seedling exposure to damage, as mortality was found to be dependent on seedling age. Therefore, changes in fire regime and climate (esp. changes that bring about less frost and reduced fire intensity and frequency) are likely to result in changes in the composition and the structure of the woody components of these systems.</li> </ol>
Data from: Networks, trees, and treeshrews: assessing support and identifying conflict with multiple loci and a problematic root
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Data from: Assessing the impacts of positive selection on coalescent-based species tree estimation and species delimitation.
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Assessing the potential for indirect interactions between tropical tree species via shared insect seed predators
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Data from: An assessment of tree availability as a possible cause of population declines in scavenging raptors
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Data from: Assessing the potential for assisted gene flow using past introduction of Norway spruce in Southern Sweden: local adaptation and genetic basis of quantitative traits in trees
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Supplementary data: What drives grassland-forest boundaries? Assessing fire and frost effects on tree seedling survival and architecture
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Data from: Combining US and Canadian forest inventories to assess habitat suitability and migration potential of 25 tree species under climate change
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Data from: What shapes cerambycid beetle communities in a tropical forest mosaic? Assessing the effects of host tree identity, forest structure, and vertical stratification
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Data from: A parametric method for assessing diversification rate variation in phylogenetic trees
Phylogenetic hypotheses are frequently used to examine variation in rates of diversification across the history of a group. Patterns of diversification-rate variation can be used to infer underlying ecological and evolutionary processes responsible for patterns of cladogenesis. Most existing methods examine rate variation through time. Methods for examining differences in diversification among groups are more limited. Here we present a new method, parametric rate comparison (PRC), that explicitly compares diversification rates among lineages in a tree using a variety of standard statistical distributions. PRC can identify subclades of the tree where diversification-rates are at variance with the remainder of the tree. A randomization test can be used to evaluate how often such variance would appear by chance alone. The method also allows for comparison of diversification-rate among a priori defined groups. Further, the application of the PRC method is not restricted to monophyletic groups. We examined the performance of PRC using simulated data which showed that PRC has acceptable false positive rates and statistical power to detect rate variation. We apply the PRC method to the well-studied radiation of North American Plethodon salamanders, and support the inference that the large-bodied P. glutinosus clade has a higher historical rate of diversification compared to other Plethodon salamanders.
Data from: Assessing approaches for inferring species trees from multi-copy genes
With the availability of genomic sequence data, there is increasing interest in using genes with a possible history of duplication and loss for species tree inference. Here we assess the performance of both non-probabilistic and probabilistic species tree inference approaches using gene duplication and loss and coalescence simulations. We evaluated the performance of gene tree parsimony (GTP) based on duplication (Only-dup), duplication and loss (Dup-loss), and deep coalescence (Deep-c) costs, the NJst distance method, the MulRF supertree method, and PHYLDOG, which jointly estimates gene trees and species tree using a hierarchical probabilistic model. We examined the effects of gene tree and species sampling, gene tree error, and duplication and loss rates on the accuracy of phylogenetic estimates. In the 10-taxon duplication and loss simulation experiments, MulRF is more accurate than the other methods when the duplication and loss rates are low, and Dup-loss is generally the most accurate when the duplication and loss rates are high. PHYLDOG performs well in 10-taxon duplication and loss simulations, but its run time is prohibitively long on larger data sets. In the larger duplication and loss simulation experiments, MulRF outperforms all other methods in experiments with at most 100 taxa; however, in the larger simulation, Dup-loss generally performs best. In all duplication and loss simulation experiments with more than 10 taxa, all methods perform better with more gene trees and fewer missing sequences, and they are all affected by gene tree error. Our results also highlight high levels of error in estimates of duplications and losses from GTP methods and demonstrate the usefulness of methods based on generic tree distances for large analyses.
Assessment of poisoned trap trees, logs, and slot traps in trapping of Ips cembrae
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Figure 5. A in Description, biology and conservation of a new species of Australian tree frog (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae: Litoria) and an assessment of the remaining populations of Litoria genimaculata Horst, 1883: systematic and conservation implications of an unusual speciation event
Figure 5. A representation of the difference in morphology between male Litoria genimaculata and Litoria myola sp. nov. The box plots compare morphology of L. genimaculata from across the Wet Tropics, L. genimaculata from the Kuranda area, and L. myola sp. nov. PC1 accounts for 87.8% of the variation in morphology (SVL, TL, HW, and weight) across L. genimaculata and L. myola sp. nov. PC1 is loaded equally and positively by all four characters (approximately 0.94 for each) and therefore represents body size. The box plots show the median, 25th and 75th quartiles, and minimum and maximum data of PC1.
Figure 4. A in Description, biology and conservation of a new species of Australian tree frog (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae: Litoria) and an assessment of the remaining populations of Litoria genimaculata Horst, 1883: systematic and conservation implications of an unusual speciation event
Figure 4. A representation of the difference in call between Litoria genimaculata and Litoria myola sp. nov. The box plots compare calls of L. genimaculata from across the Wet Tropics, L. genimaculata from the Kuranda area, and L. myola sp. nov. PC1 accounts for 67.2% of the variation in call (duration, dominant frequency and note rate) across L. genimaculata and L. myola sp. nov. PC1 is loaded heavily by inverse call duration (0.95) and note rate (0.93), and moderately by dominant frequency (0.51). The box plots show the median, 25th and 75th quartiles, and minimum and maximum data of PC1.
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