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Data from: Accounting for long-term directional trends on year-to-year synchrony in species fluctuations
What determines the stability of communities under environmental fluctuations remains one of the most debated questions in ecology. Scholars generally agree that the similarity in year-to-year fluctuations between species is an important determinant of this stability. Concordant fluctuations in species abundances through time (synchrony) decrease stability while discordance in fluctuations (anti-synchrony) should stabilize communities. Researchers have interpreted the community-wide degree of synchrony in temporal fluctuations as the outcome of different processes. However, existing synchrony measures depend not only on year-to-year species fluctuations, but also on long-term directional trends in species composition, for example due to land-use or climate change. The neglected effect of directional trends in species composition could cause an increase in synchrony that is not due to year-to-year fluctuations, as species that simultaneously increase (or decrease) in abundance over time will appear correlated, even if they fluctuate discordantly from year to year. The opposite pattern is also conceivable, where different species show contrasting trends in their abundances, thus overestimating year-to-year anti-synchrony. Therefore, trends in species composition may limit our understanding of potential ecological mechanisms behind synchrony between species. We propose two easily implementable solutions, with corresponding R functions, for testing and accounting for the effect of trends in species composition on overall synchrony. The first approach is based on computing synchrony over the residuals of fitted species trends over time. The second approach, applicable to already existing indices, is based on three-terms local variance, i.e. computing variance over three-years-long, movable windows. We demonstrate these methods using simulations and data from real plant communities under long-term directional changes, discussing when one approach can be preferred. We show that accounting for long-term temporal trends is both necessary and that separation of effect of trends and year-to-year fluctuation provides a better understanding of ecological mechanisms and their connections with ecological theory.
Data from: Evolution of long-term coloration trends with biochemically unstable ingredients
The evolutionarily persistent and widespread use of carotenoid pigments in animal coloration contrasts with their biochemical instability. Consequently, evolution of carotenoid-based displays should include mechanisms to accommodate or limit pigment degradation. In birds, this could involve two strategies: (i) evolution of a moult immediately prior to the mating season, enabling the use of particularly fast-degrading carotenoids and (ii) evolution of the ability to stabilize dietary carotenoids through metabolic modification or association with feather keratins. Here, we examine evolutionary lability and transitions between the two strategies across 126 species of birds. We report that species that express mostly unmodified, fast-degrading, carotenoids have pre-breeding moults, and a particularly short time between carotenoid deposition and the subsequent breeding season. Species that expressed mostly slow-degrading carotenoids in their plumage accomplished this through increased metabolic modification of dietary carotenoids, and the selective expression of these slow-degrading compounds. In these species, the timing of moult was not associated with carotenoid composition of plumage displays. Using repeated samples from individuals of one species, we found that metabolic modification of dietary carotenoids significantly slowed their degradation between moult and breeding season. Thus, the most complex and colourful ornamentation is likely the most biochemically stable in birds, and depends less on ecological factors, such as moult timing and migration tendency. We suggest that coevolution of metabolic modification, selective expression and biochemical stability of plumage carotenoids enables the use of unstable pigments in long-term evolutionary trends in plumage coloration.
Supplementary material 1 from: Balestrini R, Delconte C, Buffagni A, Fumagalli A, Freppaz M, Calvo E, Buzzetti I (2019) Dynamic of nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon in an alpine forested catchment: atmospheric deposition and soil solution trends. In: Mazzocchi MG, Capotondi L, Freppaz M, Lugliè A, Campanaro A (Eds) Italian Long-Term Ecological Research for understanding ecosystem diversity and functioning. Case studies from aquatic, terrestrial and transitional domains. Nature Conservation 34: 41-66. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.34.30738
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Long-term environmental changes in the Canadian boreal zone: Synthesizing temporal trends from lake sediment archives to inform future sustainability
<ul> <li>Lead (Pb) concentration and chlorophyll <em>a</em> data</li> </ul> <p>Original publication: Gros, M., Zilkey D. R., Griffiths, K. T., Pham, J., MacKeigan, P. W., Taranu, Z. E., Aulard, C., Baud, A., Garner, R. E., Ghanbari, H., Lachapelle, M., Monchamp, M-È, Paquette, C., Antoniades, D., Francus, P., Smol, J. P. & Gregory-Eaves, I. (2023). Long-term environmental changes in the Canadian boreal zone: Synthesizing temporal trends from lake sediment archives to inform future sustainability. <em>Environmental Reviews</em>, <em>31</em>(3). https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2023-0006.</p>
Data from: Accounting for long-term directional trends on year-to-year synchrony in species fluctuations
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Data from: Evolution of long-term coloration trends with biochemically unstable ingredients
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Social status, forest disturbance, and Barred Owls shape long-term trends in breeding dispersal distance of Northern Spotted Owls
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Data from: Long-term trends in wild-capture and population dynamics point to an uncertain future for captive elephants.
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Long-term trends in the phylogenetic and functional diversity of Anatidae in South China coastal wetlands
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Temporal trends in case fatality, discharge destination, and admission to long-term care after acute stroke
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Long-Term Arctic Growing Season NDVI Trends from GIMMS 3g, 1982-2012
This data set provides normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data for the arctic growing season derived primarily with data from Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sensors onboard several NOAA satellites over the years 1982 through 2012. The NDVI data, which show vegetation activity, were averaged annually for the arctic growing season (GS; June, July and August). The products include the annual GS-NDVI values and the results of a cumulative GS-NDVI time series trends analysis. The data are circumpolar in coverage at 8-km resolution and limited to greater than 20 degrees N.These normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) trends were calculated using the third generation data set from the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS 3g). GIMMS 3g improves on its predecessor (GIMMS g) in three important ways. First, GIMMS 3g integrates data from NOAA-17 and 18 satellites to lengthen its record. Second, it addresses the spatial discontinuity north of 72 degrees N, by using SeaWiFS, in addition to SPOT VGT, to calibrate between the second and third versions of the AVHRR sensor (AVHRR/2 and AVHRR/3). Finally, the GIMMS 3g algorithm incorporates improved snowmelt detection and is calibrated based on data from the shorter, arctic growing season (May-September) rather than the entire year (January-December).
Long-term trends of ambient nitrate (NO3-) concentrations across China based on ensemble machine-learning models
<p>The data is the monthly NO3- concentrations across China during 2005-2015. These data was obtained using a novel ensemble model combining random forest (RF), gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithms based on satellite data, assimilated meteorology, and other geographical covariates.</p> <p>In the datasets, XX-YY denote the XX month in YY year.<br> For instance, January-05 denotes the January in 2005.<br> NaN in the data denote the missing values.</p>
Data from: Effects of mass extinction and recovery dynamics on long-term evolutionary trends: a morphological study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) across the Late Ordovician mass extinction
Mass extinctions affect the history of life by decimating existing diversity and ecological structure and creating new evolutionary and ecological pathways. Both the loss of diversity during these events and the rebound in diversity following extinction had a profound effect on Phanerozoic evolutionary trends. Phylogenetic trees can be used to robustly assess the evolutionary implications of extinction and origination. We examine both extinction and origination during the Late Ordovician mass extinction. This mass extinction was the second largest in terms of taxonomic loss but did not appear to radically alter Paleozoic marine assemblages. We focus on the brachiopod order Strophomenida, whose evolutionary relationships have been recently revised, to explore the disconnect between the processes that drive taxonomic loss and those that restructure ecological communities. A possible explanation for this disconnect is if extinction and origination were random with respect to morphology. We define morphospace using principal coordinate analysis (PCO) of character data from 61 Ordovician-Devonian taxa and their 45 ancestral nodes, defined by a most parsimonius reconstruction in Mesquite. A bootstrap of the centroid of PCO values indicates that genera were randomly removed from morphospace by the Late Ordovician mass extinction, and new Silurian genera were clustered within a smaller previously unoccupied region of morphospace. Diversification remained morphologically constrained throughout the Silurian and into the Devonian. This suggests that the recovery from the Late Ordovician mass extinction resulted in a long-term shift in strophomenide evolution. More broadly, recovery intervals may hold clues to understanding the evolutionary impact of mass extinctions.
Data from: Effects of mass extinction and recovery dynamics on long-term evolutionary trends: a morphological study of Strophomenida (Brachiopoda) across the Late Ordovician mass extinction
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Long-term trends of ambient nitrate (NO3-) concentrations across China based on ensemble machine-learning models
<p>The monthly NO3- concentrations across China during 2005-2015</p>
Limnological data for Lake Tahoe seasonal and long-term clarity trend analysis report
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