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Fig. 4 in The nematode assemblage as a tool for the assessment of marine ecological quality status: a case-study in the Central Adriatic Sea
Fig. 4: nMDS plot of the nematode assemblages (fourth root transformed).
Fig. 1 in The nematode assemblage as a tool for the assessment of marine ecological quality status: a case-study in the Central Adriatic Sea
Fig. 1: Geographical position of the study area.
Data from: Genomics meets applied ecology: characterizing habitat quality for sloths in a tropical agroecosystem
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Full list of publications dealing with resources nutritional quality in ecology
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Data from: Freshwater ecological quality assessment of the gold mining Mashcon watershed, Cajamarca - Peru
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Data from: Resolving the paradox of environmental quality and sociality: the ecological causes and consequences of cooperative breeding in two lineages of birds
Cooperatively breeding animals occur in virtually every ecosystem on earth. Comparative and biogeographic studies suggest that that both benign and harsh, as well as stable and fluctuating, environments can favor the evolution of cooperative breeding behavior. The fact that cooperative societies occur in environments of such contrasting quality creates a paradox of environmental quality and sociality. The dual-benefits framework—which leads to the prediction that the ecological consequences of sociality (e.g. range size) vary depending on the benefits that individuals of each species receive by forming social groups—offers a potential resolution to this paradox. Here, we use a case study of two avian lineages, starlings (Sturnidae) and hornbills (Bucerotidae), in which environmental unpredictability appears to have opposite effects on the evolution of cooperation to test the dual-benefits framework. Consistent with previous work, harsh and unpredictable environments promote cooperative breeding behavior in starlings, which in turn leads to larger geographic ranges. However, cooperatively breeding hornbills occur in benign and stable environments, but sociality does not influence range size. Our study suggests that the paradox of environmental quality and sociality arises largely because cooperative breeding is an umbrella term, encompassing social species that form groups for different reasons. Differentiating between these reasons that social groups form is crucial for developing a predictive framework for understanding the evolution of cooperative breeding behavior.
Data from: Improper data practices erode the quality of global ecological databases and impede the progress of ecological research
<p>The scientific community has entered an era of big data. However, with big data comes big responsibilities, and best practices for how data are contributed to databases have not kept pace with the collection, aggregation, and analysis of big data. Here, we rigorously assess the quantity of data for specific leaf area (SLA) available within the largest and most frequently used global plant trait database, the TRY Plant Trait Database, exploring how much of the data were <em>applicable </em>(i.e., original, representative, logical, and comparable) and <em>traceable </em>(i.e., published, cited, and consistent). Over three-quarters of the SLA data in TRY either lacked applicability or traceability, leaving only 22.9% of the original data usable compared to the 64.9% typically deemed usable by standard data cleaning protocols. The remaining usable data differed markedly from the original for many species, which led to altered interpretation of ecological analyses. Though the data we consider here make up only 4.5% of SLA data within TRY, similar issues of <em>applicability </em>and <em>traceability </em>likely apply to SLA data for other species as well as other commonly measured, uploaded, and downloaded plant traits. We end with suggested steps forward for global ecological databases, including suggestions for both uploaders to and curators of databases with the hope that, through addressing the issues raised here, we can increase data quality and integrity within the ecological community.</p>
Data from: Environmental quality mediates the ecological dominance of cooperatively breeding birds
<p>Code and data associated with the publication: Lin, YH. et al. (2023) Environmental quality mediates the ecological dominance of cooperatively breeding birds. Ecology Letters, in press.</p>
Data from: Nectar quality changes the ecological costs of chemically defended pollen
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Data from: Ecological transitions in grouping benefits explain the paradox of environmental quality and sociality
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Data from: Resolving the paradox of environmental quality and sociality: the ecological causes and consequences of cooperative breeding in two lineages of birds
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Data from: Impact of hydromorphological pressures on the macrophytes bioindicators of the ecological water quality in Mediterranean rivers
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Data from: Improper data practices erode the quality of global ecological databases and impede the progress of ecological research
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Data from: A call for more transparent reporting of error rates: the quality of AFLP data in ecological and evolutionary research
Despite much discussion of the importance of quantifying and reporting genotyping error in molecular studies, it is still not standard practice in the literature. This is particularly a concern for amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) studies, where differences in laboratory, peak-calling and locus-selection protocols can generate data sets varying widely in genotyping error rate, the number of loci used and potentially estimates of genetic diversity or differentiation. In our experience, papers rarely provide adequate information on AFLP reproducibility, making meaningful comparisons among studies difficult. To quantify the extent of this problem, we reviewed the current molecular ecology literature (470 recent AFLP articles) to determine the proportion of studies that report an error rate and follow established guidelines for assessing error. Fifty-four per cent of recent articles do not report any assessment of data set reproducibility. Of those studies that do claim to have assessed reproducibility, the majority (~90%) either do not report a specific error rate or do not provide sufficient details to allow the reader to judge whether error was assessed correctly. Even of the papers that do report an error rate and provide details, many (≥23%) do not follow recommended standards for quantifying error. These issues also exist for other marker types such as microsatellites, and next-generation sequencing techniques, particularly those which use restriction enzymes for fragment generation. Therefore, we urge all researchers conducting genotyping studies to estimate and more transparently report genotyping error using existing guidelines and encourage journals to enforce stricter standards for the publication of genotyping studies.
Supplementary material 1 from: Maissour A, Benamar S (2019) Impact of hydromorphological pressures on the macrophytes bioindicators of the ecological water quality in Mediterranean rivers. BioRisk 14: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.14.30319
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Data from: A call for more transparent reporting of error rates: the quality of AFLP data in ecological and evolutionary research
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Developing an Ecological and Tailored Nutritional Intervention to Improve Quality of Life in Esophageal Cancer Survivors
ClinicalTrials.gov study NCT07024849. IPD Sharing: NO. Countries: 1. Publications: 0.
Camera trap data accompanying paper titled: "Deep learning-based ecological analysis of camera trap images is impacted by training data quality and size"
<p>ZIp file that contains two camera trap datasets that support the experiments of the paper title: "Deep learning-based ecological analysis of camera trap images is impacted by training data quality and size". The paper is currently under submission.</p>
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