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Data from: Shifting balances in the weighting of sensory modalities are predicted by divergence in brain morphology in incipient species of Heliconius butterflies
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Data from: Movement-integrated habitat selection reveals wolves balance ease of travel with human avoidance in a risk-reward trade-off
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Numerical model of the Messinian Mediterranean combining hydrological water balance, river erosion, and flexural isostasy: TISC code and input dataset for the Lago-Mare
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Modelling the carbon balance in bryophytes and lichens: Presentation of PoiCarb 1.0, a new model for explaining distribution patterns and predicting climate-change effects
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Options to improve the carbon balance of the harvested wood products sector in four EU countries
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Balancing carnivore conservation and sustainable hunting of a key prey species: a case study on the Florida panther and white-tailed deer
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Grazing-N addition interactions drive soil carbon priming and balance via bacterial assimilation in a meadow steppe
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Anthropogenic nitrogen Balance and Riverine Nitrogen Footprint of Agriculture in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin during 1970-2019
These data support the findings of a manuscript by Lu et al. under review in Environmental Research Letters. We used data synthesis and a well-calibrated hydro-ecological model to quantify the dynamics and controls of the riverine N footprint (RNF) within the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) from 1970 to 2019. These supportive data include (1) Annual synthetic N fertilizer and manure N input from 1970 to 2019 in sub-basins in the MARB; (2) Annual N inputs, outputs, and N balance from 1970 to 2017 in the MARB; (3) Changes in crop production, N load and riverine N footprint in response to key agricultural activities in MARB; (4) Changes in crop production, N load, and riverine N footprint under key agricultural activities at sub-basin level; (5) Annual acreage of major grain crops and total cropland areas in sub-basins of the MARB.
Long-term changes in tundra carbon balance following wildfire, climate change and potential nutrient addition, a modeling analysis.
A study investigating the mechanisms that control long-term response of tussock tundra to fire and to increases in air temperature, CO2, nitrogen deposition and phosphorus weathering. The MBL MEL was used to simulate the recovery of three types of tussock tundra, unburned, moderately burned, and severely burned in response to changes in climate and nutrient additions. The simulations indicate that the recovery of nutrients lost during wildfire is difficult under a warming climate because warming increases nutrient cycles and subsequently leaching within the ecosystem. The study was published in Ecological Applications (in press, 2016). This dataset is the long term archive of the results published in the paper. The full dataset has been broken into two parts because of the number and size of the files. Part 1 contains MBL MEL executable, a model description file in word, and the input files to run the simulations. Part 2 contains the output files for all simulations. Both Part 1 and Part 2 contain several different types of files. In Part 1 the comma separated ascii file included with the dataset is one of the many driver files used for the simulations. The variable descriptions below describe the variables in that file and all the driver files. In Part 2 the comma separated ascii file included with the dataset is one of the many output files from the simulations. The variable descriptions below describe the variables in that file and all the output files. To access all the files in the dataset be sure to download the two zip files described in the Methods section below. Note that the full download is large, over 700 MB for each part. Permanent Archive of the data published in Jiang, et al., in press, Modeling long-term changes in tundra carbon balance following wildfire, climate change and potential nutrient addition, Ecological Applications.
Eight Mile Lake Research Watershed, Thaw Gradient, Ecosystem carbon balance: Eddy covariance CO2 flux data of a heterogenous landscape undergoing permafrost thaw.
In this larger study, we are asking the question: Is old carbon that comprises the bulk of the soil organic matter pool released in response to thawing of permafrost? We are answering this question by using a combination of field and laboratory experiments to measure radiocarbon isotope ratios in soil organic matter, soil respiration, and dissolved organic carbon, in tundra ecosystems. The objective of these proposed measurements is to develop a mechanistic understanding of the SOM sources contributing to C losses following permafrost thawing. We are making these measurements at an established tundra field site near Healy, Alaska in the foothills of the Alaska Range. Field measurements center on a natural experiment where permafrost has been observed to warm and thaw over the past several decades. This area represents a gradient of sites each with a different degree of change due to permafrost thawing. As such, this area is unique for addressing questions at the time and spatial scales relevant for change in arctic ecosystems. Understanding how landscape level physical and biological changes effect carbon cycling is important for estimating the carbon balance of an ecosystem undergoing permafrost thaw.
Eight Mile Lake Research Watershed, Thaw Gradient, Ecosystem carbon balance: Growing season, chamber-based, CO2 flux data, 2004-2010.
In this larger study, we are asking the question: Is old carbon that comprises the bulk of the soil organic matter pool released in response to thawing of permafrost? We are answering this question by using a combination of field and laboratory experiments to measure radiocarbon isotope ratios in soil organic matter, soil respiration, and dissolved organic carbon, in tundra ecosystems. The objective of these proposed measurements is to develop a mechanistic understanding of the SOM sources contributing to C losses following permafrost thawing. We are making these measurements at an established tundra field site near Healy, Alaska in the foothills of the Alaska Range. Field measurements center on a natural experiment where permafrost has been observed to warm and thaw over the past several decades. This area represents a gradient of sites each with a different degree of change due to permafrost thawing. As such, this area is unique for addressing questions at the time and spatial scales relevant for change in arctic ecosystems. This data set includes carbon fluxes (NEE, Reco and GPP) measured and gapfilled in three areas with different degrees of thawing (minimal moderatedd and extensive thaw).
Energy Balance Flanders quarterly and monthly data and related auxiliary data
<p>This data set is used in the VITO pilot study of the UNECE Machine Learning project 2019-2020. </p>
Data from: Equivocal evidence for a change in balance between selfing and pollinator-mediated reproduction in annual Brassicaceae growing along a rainfall gradient
<p>Because many plants ensure their reproductive success using some level of self-fertilization, it is predicted that the balance between pollinator-mediated pollen transfer and autonomous selfing will be correlated with habitat harshness and pollinator activity. To study these correlations, we used three annual species that differ in their self-incompatibility and compared their reproductive success in the form of fruit production and seed viability, with and without pollinators, along a rainfall gradient and in relation to pollinator activity. We found that pollinator activity decreased with increasing aridity. However, although the reproductive success in the absence of pollinators fitted the species' level of self-incompatibility, no clear trend was detected between pollinator visits or site harshness and relative reproductive success. Only one of the species, <i>Sinapis alba, </i>showed a consistent increase in autonomous selfing with both increased aridity and decreased pollinator visits, a finding that was supported by an increase in the viability of seeds produced in the absence of pollinators. Nevertheless, unlike our prediction, the absolute number of seeds produced per <i>S. alba</i> flower increased with aridity. Our overall findings suggest that despite decreasing pollinator abundance and diversity with increasing aridity, reproductive success of annual species, even of those with high self-incompatibility, remains relatively high. While there may be several mechanisms governing these results, the overall constant seed production despite environmental uncertainties may be part of the mechanism by which plants in arid ecosystems buffer environmental variations.</p>
CoP vs. CoM stabilization strategies: the tightrope balancing case
<p>This study proposes a generalization of the ankle and hip postural strategies to be applied to the large class of skills that share the same basic challenge of defeating the destabilizing effect of gravity on the basis of the same neuromotor control organization, adapted and specialized to variable number of degrees of freedom, different body parts, different muscles, and different sensory feedback channels. In all the cases we can identify two crucial elements (the CoP - Center of Pressure and the CoM - Center of Mass) and the central point of the paper is that most balancing skills can be framed in the CoP-CoM interplay and can be modeled as a combination/alternation of two basic stabilization strategies: the standard well investigated COPS (or CoP strategy, the default option), where the CoM is the controlled variable and the CoP is the control variable, and the less investigated COMS (or CoM strategy), where CoP and CoM must exchange their role because the range of motion of the CoP is strongly constrained by environmental conditions.</p> <p>The paper focuses on the tightrope balancing skill where sway control in the sagittal plane is modeled in terms of the COPS while the more challenging sway in the coronal plane is modeled in terms of the COMS, with the support of a suitable balance pole. Both stabilization strategies are implemented as state-space intermittent, delayed feedback controllers, independent of each other. Extensive simulations support the degree of plausibility, generality, and robustness of the proposed approach.</p>
Data from: Wild samango monkeys, Cercopithecus mitis, balance risk and opportunity to interact with novel objects in village gardens
Research suggests that wild animals in urban areas exhibit heightened behavioral flexibility when they encounter novel human-made objects, but most such studies compared responses in urban populations with those from disjunct populations in less disturbed environments. We therefore know little about intrapopulation variation in cognitive or behavioral flexibility under different conditions of anthropogenic exposure. Here, we investigate object exploration and behavioral flexibility in a single group of samango monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in an environment where individuals forage in both gardens and natural forest. Over two months, we presented monkeys with novel, human-made objects in both natural and disturbed areas, varying the position of objects in trees to represent exposed or safer foraging zones. We video-recorded and analyzed interactions with these novel objects, assessing interaction times (an indicator of persistence), exploratory diversity (or motor diversity), and the occurrence of foraging innovations. Results from 67 interactions (29 in natural habitats and 38 in disturbed) indicate that samango monkeys exhibited a spatially complex response to novel objects: in contrast to other species, exploration diversity decreased significantly in anthropogenic environments, even as persistence remained largely static across contexts. Monkeys also exhibited foraging innovations by pulling on strings to bring objects closer. This may reduce exposure to danger, as string-pulling was most prevalent in the highest risk condition (ground level in human gardens). Significant intrapopulation variation in behavioral flexibility suggests that samango monkeys adjust the expression of problem-solving behaviors in relation to the degree of human disturbance in their immediate environment.
Data from: Balancing risk and reward: mating opportunity influences thermal refuge use in fiddler crabs
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Behavioural thermoregulation can ameliorate thermal stress but is costly. For species that court in a thermally stressful microhabitat, sexual selection via endurance rivalry favours individuals that are able and willing to endure harsh conditions in the courtship habitat, as retreats to a thermal refuge will reduce mating opportunities. The relative costs and benefits of refuge use versus continued courtship in the face of thermal risk, which vary across abiotic and biotic contexts, determine the optimal behavioural strategy. We examined the social and abiotic factors driving behavioural decisions related to thermoregulatory retreat in the fiddler crab <i>Austruca mjoebergi</i>. Male fiddler crabs perform a courtship display on the thermally stressful intertidal sediment surface. Time on the surface, and thus time available for display, was limited by high temperatures; as temperature increased, surface time decreased. Yet when presented with a stimulus female, males were more likely to perform the courtship display, displayed at a higher rate and increased time spent on the surface. These results demonstrate that behavioural<i> </i>decisions related to thermal retreat depend both on the abiotic conditions that influence the degree of thermal stress and on the social conditions that influence the reproductive prospects of the individual.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Evaluation of IDEAL-CT test in Utah for Balanced Mix Design
<p>The data contained herein are the results of asphalt mixtures tested at 25 C using the indirect tensile configuration based on the IDEAL tests developed by Zhou et al. (Zhou, F., Newcomb, D., Gurganus, C., Banihashemrad, S., Park, E., Sakheeifar, M., and Lytton, R.: Experimental Design for Field Validation of Laboratory Tests to Assess Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Mixtures. Final Project Report, NCHRP project 9-57. April 2016)</p> <p>The work was performed in the State of Utah as part of a research contract between the Department of Transportation and the University of Utah. PEPG, LLC., a consulting lab was also involved. The complete report can be found at the Utah Department of Transportation website (<a href="http://www.udot.utah.edu">www.udot.utah.edu</a>), Research and Innovation Division.</p>
Non-Closure of Surface Energy Balance Linked to Asymmetric Turbulent Transport of Scalars by Large Eddies
<p>This repository contains the dataset used in the manuscript of Liu, Gao, and Katul 2020. Please refer to the manuscript for the detailed description of the dataset.</p>
The evolutionary advantage of fitness-dependent recombination in diploids: a deterministic mutation–selection–balance model
<p>Recombination's omnipresence in nature is one of the most intriguing problems in evolutionary biology. The question of why recombination exhibits certain general features is no less interesting than that of why it exists at all. One such feature is recombination's fitness dependence (FD). The so far developed population-genetics models have focused on the evolution of FD recombination mainly in haploids, although the empirical evidence for this phenomenon comes mostly from diploids. Using numerical analysis of modifier models for infinite panmictic populations, we show here that FD recombination can be evolutionarily advantageous in diploids subjected to purifying selection. We ascribe this advantage to the differential rate of disruption of lower- vs higher-fitness genotypes, which can be manifested in selected systems with at least three loci. We also show that if the modifier is linked to such selected system, it can additionally benefit from modifying this linkage in a fitness-dependent manner. The revealed evolutionary advantage of FD recombination appeared robust to crossover interference within the selected system, either positive or negative. Remarkably, FD recombination was often favored in situations where any constant non-zero recombination was evolutionarily disfavored, implying a relaxation of the rather strict constraints on major parameters (e.g., selection intensity and epistasis) required for the evolutionary advantage of non-zero recombination formulated by classical models.</p>
Consistent measures of oxidative balance predict survival but not reproduction in a long-distance migrant
1. Physiological processes, including those that disrupt oxidative balance, have been proposed as key to understanding fundamental life history trade-offs. Yet examination of changes in oxidative balance within wild animals across time, space and major life history challenges remain uncommon. For example, migration presents substantial physiological challenges for individuals, and data on migratory individuals would provide crucial context for exposing the importance of relationships between oxidative balance and fitness outcomes. 2. Here we examined the consistency of commonly used measures of oxidative balance in longitudinally sampled free-living individuals of a long-lived, long-distance migrant, the Brent goose Branta bernicla hrota over periods of months to years. 3. Although inter-individual and temporal variation in measures of oxidative balance were substantial, we found high consistency in measures of lipid peroxidation and circulating non-enzymatic antioxidants in longitudinally sampled individuals. This suggests the potential for the existence of individual oxidative phenotypes. 4. Given intra-individual consistency, we then examined how these physiological measures relate to survival and reproductive success across all sampled individuals. Surprisingly, lower survival was predicted for individuals with lower levels of damage, with no measured physiological metric associated with reproductive success. 5. Our results demonstrate that snapshot measurements of a consistent measure of oxidative balance can inform our understanding of differences in a key demographic trait. However, the positive relationship between oxidative damage and survival emphasises the need to investigate relationships between the oxidative system and fitness outcomes in other species undergoing similar physiologically challenging lifecycles. This would highlight the extent to which variation in such traits and resource allocation trade-offs is a result of adaptation to different life history strategies. 30-Mar-2020
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