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FIGURE 6 in AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

FIGURE 6 Species-level variation in avian functional traits in relation to geography and lifestyle. Hand-wing index (wing elongation) peaks towards high latitudes (a), and in species with aquatic and aerial lifestyles (b); relative tarsus length peaks at mid-latitudes and non-forest regions (c), and in species with terrestrial lifestyles (d); relative beak length peaks in the tropics, including rainforests (e), and in nectar feeders and aquatic predators (f). For maps, median trait values were calculated for 18,709 grid-cell assemblages worldwide. Darker colours indicate larger trait values. Assemblages were delimited by extracting species native resident or breeding distributions (n = 10,964 species for which both trait and geographical range data are available) onto an equal area grid with a cell resolution of ~100 km (Behrmann projection). Relative beak and tarsus length are the residuals of a linear regression of log-transformed tarsus and beak length (mm) against log-transformed body mass (grams). Species in (b,d) are classified according to primary lifestyle (predominant locomotory niche; insessorial = perching lifestyle). Species in (f) are classified according to primary diet following Pigot et al. (2020). Sample sizes (b,d,f) are numbers of species in each category

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FIGURE 3 Morphological trait sampling for all bird families. AVONET contains 718,662 in AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

FIGURE 3 Morphological trait sampling for all bird families. AVONET contains 718,662 individual trait measurements, all of which are used to calculate species averages. However, sampling per species varies across families depending on taxonomy. Upper phylogram shows sampling under BirdLife International (11,009 species in 243 families). Families where sampling completeness is below 75% indicated by lighter shading. Most families with lower sampling are species poor (numbers in black circles show species richness). Lower panels show that sampling improves under more conservative taxonomic treatments of eBird (10,661 species in 249 families) and BirdTree (9993 species in 194 families). Coloured bars indicate the proportion of species in each family measured to different levels of completeness. 'Complete set' means a full set of all 9 core morphological traits (not necessarily from the same individual). 'Individuals' means any individual bird with one or more traits measured

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FIGURE 5 AVONET presents raw morphological data for 90,020 in AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

FIGURE 5 AVONET presents raw morphological data for 90,020 individual birds at an average of 8.1–9.0 individuals per species (varying by taxonomy), providing a foundation for a new generation of studies investigating or accounting for intraspecific variance. This figure illustrates how variance is partitioned for a key morphological trait (beak length). Left-hand panels show that most variance is explained at higher taxonomic levels (orders, family and species), whereas intraspecific (individual) variation is contrastingly low, supporting the use of species averages in comparative studies. Curves are normal distributions based on SD; percentages (%) show proportion of variance at each level. Right-hand panels show beak length variance within families and within species (restricting to families with>5 species and species with>5 individuals measured; note different axis scales in upper and lower panel). Sequential ranks show a 'hockey-stick' distribution with examples of the most extreme outlier family (Scolopacidae) illustrated. Extreme within-species values for beak variance may reflect polymorphism or, in some cases, measurement error

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Supplementary data for article "Small hydropower – small ecological footprint? A multi-annual environmental impact analysis using aquatic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators. Part 2: effects on functional diversity" by Scotti A., et al.

<p>Supplementary data for article &quot;Small hydropower &ndash; small ecological footprint? A multi-annual environmental impact analysis using aquatic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators. Part 2: effects on functional diversity&quot; by Scotti A., et al.:</p> <p><br> - Trait-based distances calculated for each pair of taxa;</p> <p>- CWM, CWM(LN) values, and their difference (CWMDIFF)</p> <p>Refer to the published articles for further details.</p>

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Data for manuscript: Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st century climate change

<p>These data were used in the analyses reported in Block et al. &quot;Ecological lags govern the pace and outcome of plant community responses to 21st century climate change&quot;.</p>

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Data from: Long-term cattle grazing shifts the ecological state of forest soils

<p><span>Cattle grazing profoundly affects abiotic and biotic characteristics of ecosystems. While most research has been performed on grasslands, the effect of large managed ungulates on forest ecosystems has largely been neglected.</span></p> <p><span>Compared to a baseline semi-natural state, we investigated how long-term cattle grazing of birch forest patches affected the abiotic state and the ecological community (microbes and invertebrates) of the soil subsystem.</span></p> <p><span>Grazing strongly modified the soil abiotic environment by increasing phosphorus content, pH and bulk density, while reducing the C:N ratio. The reduced C:N-ratio was strongly associated with a lower microbial biomass, mainly caused by a reduction of fungal biomass. This was linked to a decrease in fungivorous nematode abundance and the nematode channel index, indicating </span><span>a relative </span><span>uplift in the importance of the bacterial energy-channel in the nematode assemblages. </span></p> <p><span>Cattle grazing highly modified invertebrate community composition producing distinct assemblages from the semi-natural situation. Richness and abundance of microarthropods was consistently reduced by grazing (excepting collembolan richness) and grazing-associated changes in soil pH, Olsen P and reduced soil pore volume (bulk density) limiting niche space and refuge from physical disturbance. Anecic earthworm species predominated in grazed patches, but were absent from ungrazed forest, and may benefit from manure inputs, while their deep vertical burrowing behaviour protects them from physical disturbance.</span></p> <p><span>Perturbation of birch forest habitat by long-term ungulate grazing profoundly modified soil biodiversity, either </span><span>directly through increased physical disturbance and manure input or indirectly by modifying soil abiotic conditions.</span><span> Comparative analyses revealed the ecosystem engineering potential of large ungulate grazers in forest systems through major shifts in the composition and structure of microbial and invertebrate assemblages, including the potential for reduced energy flow through the fungal decomposition pathway. The precise consequences for species trophic interactions and biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships remains to be established, however. </span></p>

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Data and JAGS-code for "Michel et al 2022 Ecology and Evolution - Reduced habitat quality increases intrinsic but not ecological costs of reproduction"

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>Although the costs of reproduction are predicted to vary with the quality of the breeding habitat thereby affecting population dynamics and life-history trade-offs, empirical evidence for this pattern remains sparse and equivocal. Costs of reproduction can operate through immediate ecological mechanisms or through delayed intrinsic mechanisms. Ignoring these separate pathways might hinder the identification of costs and the understanding of their consequences. We experimentally investigated the survival costs of reproduction for adult little owls (<em>Athene noctua</em>) within a gradient of habitat quality. We supplemented food to nestlings, thereby relieving the parents&rsquo; effort for brood provisioning. We used radio-tracking and Bayesian multi-state modelling based on marked recapture and dead recovery to estimate survival rates of adult little owls across the year as a function of food supplementation and habitat characteristics. Food supplementation to nestlings during the breeding season increased parental survival not only during the breeding season but also during the rest of the year. Thus, the low survival of parents of unfed broods likely represents both, strong ecological and strong intrinsic costs of reproduction. However, while immediate ecological costs occurred also in high quality habitats, intrinsic costs carrying over to the post-breeding period occurred only in low quality habitats. Our results suggest that immediate costs resulting from ecological mechanisms such as predation, are high also in territories of high habitat quality. Long-term costs resulting from intrinsic trade-offs, however, are only paid in low quality habitats. Consequently, differential effects of habitat quality on immediate ecological and delayed intrinsic mechanisms can mask the increase of costs of reproduction in low quality breeding habitats. Intrinsic costs may represent an underrated mechanism of habitat quality affecting adult survival rate thereby considerably accelerating population decline in degrading habitats. This study therefore highlights the need for a long-term perspective to fully assess the costs of reproduction and the role of habitat quality in modifying these costs.</p>

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Fig. 4 in Determining Spatial Parameters Of The Ecological Niche Of Parus Major (Passeriformes, Paridae) On The Base Of Remote Sensing Data

Fig. 4. Distribution of resources (light bars) and distribution of resources used by P. major (grey bars).

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Fig. 5 in Determining Spatial Parameters Of The Ecological Niche Of Parus Major (Passeriformes, Paridae) On The Base Of Remote Sensing Data

Fig. 5. Distribution of pseudo absence cells: a — the distance to the presence cells is not less than 1000 meters; b — the distance to the presence cells is not less than 500 meters; c — the distance to the presence cells is not less than 250 meters; d — distance to the presence cells is not less than 100 meters.

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Data from: Ecology and evolution of blood oxygen-carrying capacity in birds

Blood oxygen-carrying capacity is one of important determinants of oxygen amounts supplied to the tissues per unit time and plays a key role in oxidative metabolism. In wild vertebrates, blood oxygen-carrying capacity is most commonly measured with the total blood haemoglobin concentration (Hb) and haematocrit (Hct), which is the volume percentage of red blood cells in blood. Here, I used published estimates of avian Hb and Hct (nearly one thousand estimates from 300 species) to examine macroevolutionary patterns in blood oxygen-carrying capacity of blood in birds. Phylogenetically-informed comparative analysis indicated that blood oxygen-carrying capacity was primarily determined by species distribution (latitude and elevation) and morphological constraints (body mass). I found little support for the effect of life history components on blood oxygen-carrying capacity, except for a positive association of Hct with clutch size. Hb was also positively associated with diving behaviour, but I found no effect of migratoriness on either Hb or Hct. Fluctuating selection was identified as the major force shaping the evolution of blood oxygen-carrying capacity. The results offer novel insights into the evolution of Hb and Hct in birds, as well as they provide a general, phylogenetically-robust support for some long-standing hypotheses in avian ecophysiology.

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R_JAGS code for estimation and analysis of species-area-relationship (SAR) parameters from NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network) data on plant surveys

<p><span>Invasive species science is heavily geared toward the invasive agent. </span>However, management to protect native species also requires a proactive approach focused on understanding the features affecting community vulnerability to invasion impacts<span>. </span><span>Vulnerability </span><span>is likely the result of </span><span>factors acting across spatial scales, from </span><span>local to regional, and it is the combined effects of these factors that will determine the magnitude of vulnerability.</span><span> We introduce an analytical framework that quantifies the scale-dependent impact of biological invasions from the shape of the native species-area-relationship (SAR). We leverage newly available, biogeographically extensive vegetation data from the US National Ecological Observatory Network to assess plant community vulnerability to invasion impact as a function of factors acting across scales. We analyzed more than 1000 SARs widely distributed across the USA along environmental gradients and under different levels of invasion. </span>Results show that a decrease in native richness is consistently associated with invasive species cover<span>, but it is only at relatively high levels of invasion that native richness is compromised. After accounting for variation in baseline ecosystem diversity, net primary productivity, and human modification, ecoregions that are colder and wetter seem to be most vulnerable to losses of native plant species at the local level, while warmer and wetter areas seem most susceptible at the landscape level. We also document how the combined effects of cross-scale factors result in a heterogenous spatial pattern of vulnerability. </span><span>This pattern </span><span>cannot be predicted by analyses at any single scale, underscoring the importance of accounting for factors acting across scales. Simultaneously assessing differences in vulnerability between distinct plant communities at local, landscape and regional scales provided outputs that can be used to inform policy and management aimed at reducing vulnerability to the impact of plant invasions.</span></p>

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Data supporting "Large-scale citizen science programs can support ecological and climate change assessments"

<p>Text file of phenology observations pulled from the USA National Phenology Network&#39;s database (www.usanpn.org) and used in this analysis.&nbsp;</p>

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Data from: A hierarchical model for jointly assessing ecological and anthropogenic impacts on animal demography

<p>1. The management of sustainable harvest of animal populations is of great ecological and conservation importance. Development of formal quantitative tools to estimate and mitigate the impacts of harvest on animal populations has positively impacted conservation efforts.</p> <p>2. The vast majority of existing harvest models, however, do not simultaneously estimate ecological and harvest impacts on demographic parameters and population trends. Given that the impacts of ecological drivers are often equal to or greater than the effects of harvest, and can covary with harvest, this disconnect has the potential to lead to flawed inference.</p> <p>3. In this study, we used Bayesian hierarchical models and a 43-year capture-mark-recovery dataset from 404,241 female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) released in the North American midcontinent to estimate mallard demographic parameters. Further, we model the dynamics of waterfowl hunters and habitat, and the direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic and ecological processes on mallard demographic parameters.</p> <p>4. We demonstrate that density-dependence, habitat conditions, and harvest can simultaneously impact demographic parameters of female mallards, and discuss implications for existing and future harvest management models.</p> <p>5. Our results demonstrate the importance of controlling for multicollinearity among demographic drivers in harvest management models, and provide evidence for multiple mechanisms that lead to partial compensation of mallard harvest. We provide a novel model structure to assess these relationships that may allow for improved inference and prediction in future iterations of harvest management models across taxa.</p>

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Data from: Global plant ecology of tropical ultramafic ecosystems

<p>This is a compiled geospatial dataset in ESRI polygon shapefile format of ultramafic soils of the neotropics showing the location of ultramafic soils in Guatemala, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, and Bolivia. The data are derived from seven geospatial datasets. Original datasets were subset to include only ultramafic areas, datasets were assigned a common projection (WGS84), attribute tables were reconciled to a common set of fields, and the datasets were combined.</p> <p>The dataset includes three components: 1) a geospatial dataset in ESRI polygon shapefile format of ultramafic soils of the neotropics showing the location of ultramafic soils in Guatemala, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, Suriname, French Guiana, and Bolivia. 2) A regional-specific bibliography for all tropical ultramafic regions discussed in the original manuscript (Garnica-Diaz et al. 2022), and 3) an updated list in .csv format of major ultramafic outcrops worldwide including their latitude and longitude coordinates. </p>

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Data for Global ecological and biogeochemical impacts of pelagic tunicates

<p>Model results and observational validation data for &quot;Global ecological and biogeochemical impacts of pelagic tunicates.&quot;&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Model outputs&nbsp;for 1) the COBALTv2 control simulation, 2) the GZ-COBALT base simulation, and the five sensitivity experiments in the following files:</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Model grid and area fields</p> <ul> <li><em>ocean_annual_static.nc</em></li> <li><em>ocean_static.nc</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Monthly ocean surface fields</p> <ul> <li>Nitrate, phosphate, silica, chlorophyll</li> <li><em>[expt]_ocean_cobalt_omip_sfc.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Monthly water column integrated fields</p> <ul> <li>primary production</li> <li><em>[expt]_ocean_cobalt_omip_2d.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Monthly 100-m integrated tracer fields</p> <ul> <li>Small and large phytoplankton, diazotrophs, small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicate, bacteria</li> <li>Dissolved organic nitrogen</li> <li>Nitrogen detritus</li> <li><em>[expt]_ocean_cobalt_tracers_int.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Monthly 100-m integrated fluxes</p> <ul> <li>Production of: <ul> <li>Small and large phytoplankton, diazotrophs, small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicate, bacteria</li> </ul> </li> <li>Loss to zooplankton from: <ul> <li>Small and large phytoplankton, diazotrophs, bacteria, small and medium zooplankton, small and large tunicates</li> </ul> </li> <li>Aggregation loss from: <ul> <li>Small and large phytoplankton, large tunicates</li> </ul> </li> <li>Injestion by: <ul> <li>Small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicates, higher predators</li> </ul> </li> <li>Detritus production by: <ul> <li>Small, medium, and large zooplankton, small and large tunicates, higher predators</li> </ul> </li> <li><em>[expt]_ocean_cobalt_fluxes_int_1988-2007.clim.tar.gz</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Monthly detritus fluxes past 100-m:</p> <ul> <li><em>[expt]_ocean_cobalt_fdet_100.1988-2007.clim.tar.gz</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Annual 3-D tracers:</p> <ul> <li>Phytoplankton and&nbsp;zooplankton&nbsp;carbon</li> <li>Mesozooplankton and tunicate carbon</li> <li><em>[expt]_ocean_cobalt_omip_tracers_year_z_1988-2007.nc</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Observational data compilation in 1-degree grid cells:</p> <ul> <li>Data compilation of&nbsp;small tunicates (appendicularians, mg C m<sup>-3</sup>) and&nbsp;large tunicates (thaliaceans, mg C m<sup>-3</sup>) as described in the Luo et al. publication.&nbsp;</li> <li>Mesozooplankton from the COPEPOD carbon biomass dataset in mg C m<sup>-3</sup>&nbsp;(Moriarty and O&#39;Brien 2012).</li> <li>The&nbsp;chlorophyll growing season mean (from GlobColour data product, blended&nbsp;in the Southern Ocean with Johnson et al. 2013), in units of mg Chl m<sup>-3</sup>.</li> <li>The tunicate column is a simple addition of the appendicularian + thaliacean column, assuming missing values are zero (use with caution).&nbsp;</li> <li>Please note that these values&nbsp;<strong><em>do not&nbsp;</em></strong>incorporate the 10x biomass adjustment from net-based sampling; this must be added in afterwards.</li> <li><em>ObsCompilation_SmLgTunicates_Mesozooplankton.csv</em></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>See the below publication for more details:</p> <p><strong>Luo, Jessica Y.,&nbsp;</strong>Stock, C. A., Henschke, N., Dunne, J. P., O&#39;Brien, T. D., Global ecological and biogeochemical impacts of pelagic tunicates.&nbsp;<em>Progress in Oceanography</em>. (2022) doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102822">10.1016/j.pocean.2022.102822</a></p>

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Data and Scripts from: Bayesian prediction of multivariate ecology from phenotypic data yields novel insights into the diets of extant and extinct taxa

<p>Morphology often reflects ecology, enabling the prediction of ecological roles for taxa that lack direct observations such as fossils. In comparative analyses, ecological traits, like diet, are often treated as categorical, which may aid prediction and simplify analyses but ignores the multivariate nature of ecological niches. Futhermore, methods for quantifying and predicting multivariate ecology remain rare. Here, we ranked the relative importance of 13 food items for a sample of 88 extant carnivoran mammals, and then used Bayesian multilevel modeling to assess whether those rankings could be predicted from dental morphology and body size. Traditional diet categories fail to capture the true multivariate nature of carnivoran diets, but Bayesian regression models derived from living taxa have good predictive accuracy for importance ranks. Using our models to predict the importance of individual food items, the multivariate dietary niche, and the nearest extant analogs for a set of data-deficient extant and extinct carnivoran species confirms long-standing ideas for some taxa, but yields new insights about the fundamental dietary niches of others. Our approach provides a promising alternative to traditional dietary classifications. Importantly, this approach need not be limited to diet, but serves as a general framework for predicting multivariate ecology from phenotypic traits.</p>

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Data for: Assortative mating in an ecological context: Effects of mate choice errors and relative species abundance on the frequency and asymmetry of hybridization

<p><span>The frequency and asymmetry of mixed-species mating set the initial stage for the ecological and evolutionary implications of hybridization. How such patterns of mixed-species mating, in turn, are influenced by the combination of mate choice errors and relative species abundance remain largely unknown. We develop a mathematical model that generates predictions for how relative species abundances and mate choice errors affect hybridization patterns. When mate choice errors are small (&lt;5%) the highest frequency of hybridization occurs when one of the hybridizing species is at low abundance, but when mate choice errors are high (&gt;5%) the highest hybridization frequency occurs when species occur in equal proportions. Furthermore, females of the less abundant species are overrepresented in mixed-species matings. We compare our theoretical predictions with empirical data on naturally hybridizing Ficedula flycatchers and find that hybridization is highest when the two species occur in equal abundance, implying rather high mate choice errors. We discuss ecological and evolutionary implications of our findings and encourage future work on hybrid zone dynamics that take demographic aspects, such as relative species abundance, into account.</span></p>

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Ecological data for: Subsidy accessibility drives asymmetric food web responses

<p>Global change is fundamentally altering flows of natural and anthropogenic subsidies across space and time. After a pointed call for research on subsidies in the 1990s, an industry of empirical work has documented the ubiquitous role subsidies play in ecosystem structure, stability and function. Here, we argue that physical constraints (e.g., water temperature) and species traits can govern a species' accessibility to resource subsidies, which has been largely overlooked in the subsidy literature. We examined the input of a high quality, point-source anthropogenic subsidy (aquaculture feed) into a recipient freshwater lake food web. By using a combined bio-tracer approach, we detect a gradient in accessibility of the anthropogenic subsidy within the surrounding food web driven by the thermal preferences of three constituent species, effectively rewiring the recipient lake food web. Since aquaculture is predicted to increase significantly in coming decades to support growing human populations, and global change is altering temperature regimes, then this form of food web alteration may be expected to occur frequently. We argue that subsidy accessibility is a key characteristic of recipient food web interactions that must be considered when trying to understand the impacts of subsidies on ecosystem stability and function under continued global change.</p>

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Transformed crane data from: Balancing structural complexity with ecological insight in spatio-temporal species distribution models

<p>The potential for statistical complexity in species distribution models (SDMs) has greatly increased with advances in computational power. Structurally complex models provide the flexibility to analyse intricate ecological systems and realistically messy data, but can be difficult to interpret, reducing their practical impact. Founding model complexity in ecological theory can improve insight gained from SDMs. </p> <p>Here, we evaluate a marked point process approach, which uses multiple Gaussian random fields to represent population dynamics of the Eurasian crane (<em>Grus grus</em>) in a spatio-temporal species distribution model. We discuss the role of model components and their impacts on predictions, in comparison with a simpler binomial presence/absence approach. Inference is carried out using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) with inlabru, an accessible and computationally efficient approach for Bayesian hierarchical modelling, which is not yet widely used in SDMs. </p> <p>Using the marked point process approach, crane distribution was predicted to be dependent on the density of suitable habitat patches, as well as close to observations of the existing population. This demonstrates the advantage of complex model components in accounting for spatio-temporal population dynamics (such as habitat preferences and dispersal limitations) that are not explained by environmental variables. However, including an AR1 temporal correlation structure in the models resulted in unrealistic predictions of species distribution; highlighting the need for careful consideration when determining the level of model complexity.</p> <p>Increasing model complexity, with careful evaluation of the effects of additional model components, can provide a more realistic representation of a system, which is of particular importance for a practical and impact-focused discipline such as ecology (though these methods extend to applications for a wide range of systems). Founding complexity in contextual theory is not only fundamental to maintaining model interpretability, but can be a useful approach to improving insight gained from model outputs. </p>

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Data from: What ecological factors favor parthenogenesis over sexual reproduction? A study on the facultatively parthenogenetic mayfly Alainites muticus in natural populations

<p>Different reproductive modes are characterized by costs and benefits which depend on ecological contexts. For example, sex can provide benefits under complex biotic interactions, while its costs increase under mate limitation. Furthermore, ecological contexts often vary along abiotic gradients. Here, we study how these factors simultaneously influence the frequency of sex in the facultatively parthenogenetic mayfly Alainites muticus . We first verified that parthenogenesis translates into female-biased population sex ratios. We then measured the density of individuals (a proxy for mate limitation) and community diversity (biotic interaction complexity) for 159 A. muticus populations covering a broad altitudinal gradient and used structural equation modeling to investigate their direct and indirect influences on sex ratios. We found no effect of community diversity or altitude on sex ratios. Furthermore, even when females can reproduce parthenogenetically, they generally reproduce sexually, indicating that the benefits of sex exceed its costs in most situations. Sex ratios only become female-biased under low population densities, as expected if mate limitation was the main factor selecting for parthenogenesis. Mate limitation might be widespread in mayflies because of their short adult lifespan and limited dispersal, which can generate strong selection for reproductive assurance and may provide a stepping-stone towards obligate parthenogenesis.</p>

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The International Brain Laboratory public data releases expose standardized mouse decision-making experiments, including Neuropixels recordings, widefield calcium imaging, behavior, and session metadata accessed through the ONE API.

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