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Thermal Environment and Illumination of Lunar Pits and Caves Data, Code, and Images

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Diviner data focusing on the Tranquillitatis pit and analysis code for determining the thermal and illumination environments of the collapse pits and caves on the Moon. Also includes figures created using the code.

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Leaf traits, plant size and environment data of a common tree species Clausena dunniana in a subtropical broad-leaved forest

This dataset contains the leaf traits, plant size and environment data of 262 individuals of a widespread species Clausena dunniana in the subtropical broad-leaved forests in Maolan National Nature Reserve in the karst region of southwestern China. The 262 individuals of C. dunniana are distributed at two major topographic habitat types, the slope and the hilltop, within the forests of six sites evenly distributed in two regions within the Maolan reserve. The measured individual plant level leaf traits include specific leaf area (SLA), leaf area, leaf dry-matter content (LDMC) and leaf thickness. The plant size represents the first principal component of plant basal diameter and plant height, and the environmental factors include topographic habitat, canopy height, and rock-bareness rate.

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Data and R-code belonging to Manuscript: "Prior experience of captivity affects behavioural responses to 'novel' environments"

Data and R-code belonging to Manuscript:"Prior experience of captivity affects behavioural responses to 'novel' environments"  1) the data can be found in an excel file named: datafile_explorationGT2022.xlsx 2) the R-code used to do the analysis in the MS can be found in an R-markdown file: Rmd_file_MS_GTexploration_R2.Rmd

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Lophuromys medicaudatus, L. woosnami, and L. luteogaster are in subgenus Kivumys and woosnami species group. Monotypic. Distribution. Endemic to the Albertine Rift, occurring around Lake Kivu in E DR Congo and Rwanda and SW Uganda (Bwindi). Descriptive notes. Head—body 92-112 mm, tail 73-95 mm, ear 15-19 mm, hindfoot 18-23 mm; weight 29-43 g. Similar to other species in subgenus Kivumys, the Western Rift Brush-furred Rat has unspeckled pelage, and tail ¢.85% of head-body length. Dorsum is uniform dark brown-olive, and venter is orange. Females have three pairs of mammae. Habitat. Mountain swamps and mountain forests at elevations of 1850-2500 m. Food and Feeding. The Western Rift Brush-furred Rat is omnivorous; diets contain 30-100% arthropods, mollusks, seeds, and fruits. Breeding. Female Western Rift Brush-furred Rats can have 1-2 embryos. Pregnant females were observed in February, April, and July. Activity patterns. The Western Rift Brush-furred Rat is terrestrial. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List. The Western Rift Brush-furred Rat has never been found in modified secondary environment and is quite rare. Bibliography. Dieterlen (1976b, 1987 2013g), Kasangaki et al. (2003), Verheyen et al. (1996). in Muridae

Lophuromys medicaudatus, L. woosnami, and L. luteogaster are in subgenus Kivumys and woosnami species group. Monotypic. Distribution. Endemic to the Albertine Rift, occurring around Lake Kivu in E DR Congo and Rwanda and SW Uganda (Bwindi). Descriptive notes. Head—body 92-112 mm, tail 73-95 mm, ear 15-19 mm, hindfoot 18-23 mm; weight 29-43 g. Similar to other species in subgenus Kivumys, the Western Rift Brush-furred Rat has unspeckled pelage, and tail ¢.85% of head-body length. Dorsum is uniform dark brown-olive, and venter is orange. Females have three pairs of mammae. Habitat. Mountain swamps and mountain forests at elevations of 1850-2500 m. Food and Feeding. The Western Rift Brush-furred Rat is omnivorous; diets contain 30-100% arthropods, mollusks, seeds, and fruits. Breeding. Female Western Rift Brush-furred Rats can have 1-2 embryos. Pregnant females were observed in February, April, and July. Activity patterns. The Western Rift Brush-furred Rat is terrestrial. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Vulnerable on The IUCN Red List. The Western Rift Brush-furred Rat has never been found in modified secondary environment and is quite rare. Bibliography. Dieterlen (1976b, 1987 2013g), Kasangaki et al. (2003), Verheyen et al. (1996).

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Island size predicts mammal diversity in insular environments, except for land-bridge islands

Insular environments are among the most endangered ecosystems as they face a myriad of anthropogenic stressors. Forest mammals perform a wide range of ecological services, with their persistence being vital for ecosystem functionality in both natural and artificial islands. Studies revealed that shrinkage in island size usually leads to the decay of mammal species richness and abundance in patchy landscapes. However, mammal species-area (SARs) and abundance-area (AARs) relationships can differ among insular environments: oceanic, fluvial, artificial, and land-bridge islands (i.e., natural islands connected to the mainland). Large dams create vast insularized landscapes after river impoundment, leading to pervasive habitat loss and potentially causing even worse biodiversity losses than other insular systems. We conducted an extensive literature search and used meta-analysis techniques to quantify the magnitude of SAR and AAR for forest mammals across different archipelago landscapes worldwide. After a screening process, we ended up with 26 studies comprising 55 different effect sizes representing the magnitude of SARs and AARs. Our global analysis unveiled a positive relationship between effect sizes and island area, with mammal species richness and abundance increasing in fluvial, oceanic, and artificial islands accordingly with island area, but not in land-bridge islands. These results demonstrate that, except for land-bridge islands, SAR and AAR are still fair models to predict mammal diversity. These results could improve the prediction of SAR and AAR in insular environments under habitat loss scenarios and propose sound conservation strategies since the rate at which insular communities have been lost is presently unknown.

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Underground trees inhabit varied extreme environments across the Afrotropics

GBIF records of Lannea, Ozoroa, Parinari and Syzygium in Africa

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Data for: Temperature and not landscape composition shapes wild bee communities in an urban environment

Data for: Temperature and not landscape composition shapes wild bee communities in an urban environment. This dataset was obtained surveying wild bees using pan-traps in the metropolitan city of Rome in 2016.

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Gudgeon fish with and without genetically determined countershading coexist in heterogeneous littoral environments of an ancient lake

Countershading, characterized by a darker dorsal surface and lighter ventral surface, is common among many animals. This dorsoventral pigment polarity is often thought to be adaptive coloration for camouflage. By contrast, non-countershaded (melanistic) morphs often occur within a species due to genetic color polymorphism in terrestrial animals. However, the polymorphism with either countershaded or melanistic morphs is poorly known in wild aquatic animals. This study explored the genetic nature of diverged color morphs of a lineage of gudgeon fish (genus Sarcocheilichthys) in the ancient Lake Biwa, and propose this system as a novel model for testing hypotheses of functional aspects of countershading and its loss in aquatic environments. This system harbors two color morphs that have been treated taxonomically as separate species; S. variegatus microoculus which occurs throughout the littoral zone, and S. biwaensis which occurs in and around rocky areas. First, we confirmed that the divergence of dorsoventral color patterns between the two morphs is under strict genetic control at the levels of chromatophore distribution and melanin-related gene expression under common garden rearing. The former morph displayed sharp countershading coloration, whereas the latter morph exhibited a strong tendency towards its loss. The crossing results indicated that this divergence was likely controlled by a single locus in a two-allele Mendelian-inheritance pattern. Furthermore, our population genomic and genome-wide association study analyses detected no genome-wide divergence between the two morphs, except for one region near a locus that may be associated with the color divergence. Thus, these morphs are either in a state of intraspecific color polymorphism or two incipient species. Evolutionary forces underlying this polymorphism appears to be associated with heterogeneous littoral environments in this lake. Future ecological genomic research will provide insight into adaptive functions of this widespread coloration, including the eco-evolutionary drivers of its loss, in the aquatic world.

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Risk Classification of contaminates sites in Anderstorp using the German Einzelfallbewertung Altlastenstandorte (EB) method from the Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment and Geology (HLNUG)

This data set includes the documents for risk classifying contaminated sites in Anderstorp, Sweden using the German Einzelfallbewertung Altlastenstandorte (EB) method from the Hessian Agency for Nature Conservation, Environment, and Geology (HLNUG).

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Introgression, admixture and selection facilitate genetic adaptation to high-altitude environments in Chinese cattle

Domestication and subsequent selection of cattle to form breeds and biological types that can adapt to different environments partitioned ancestral genetic diversity into distinct modern lineages. Genome-wide selection particularly for adaptation to extreme environments left detectable signatures genome-wide. We used high-density genotype data for 42 cattle breeds and identified the influence of Bos grunniens and Bos javanicus on the formation of Chinese indicine breeds that led to their divergence from India-origin Zebu. We also found evidence for introgression, admixture, and migration in most of the Chinese breeds. Selection signature analyses between high-altitude (>1800m) and low-altitude adapted breeds (<1500m) revealed candidate genes (ACSS2, ALDOC, EPAS1, EGLN1, NUCB2) and pathways that are putatively involved in hypoxia adaptation. Immunohistochemical, real-time PCR and CRISPR/cas9 ACSS2-knockout analyses suggests that the up-regulation of ACSS2 expression in the liver promotes the metabolic adaptation of cells to hypoxia via the hypoxia-inducible factor pathway. High altitude adaptation involved the introgression of alleles from high-altitude adapted Yaks into Chinese B. t. taurus prior to their formation into recognized breeds and followed by selection. In addition to selection, adaptation to high altitude environments has been facilitated by admixture and introgression with locally adapted cattle populations.

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Results of the experiments within the Discrete Manufacturing Simulation Environment

This dataset is a MySQL file and contains the Results of the experiments within the Discrete Manufacturing Simulation Environment.   How do you use the files? You need a MySQL instance on your computer (e.g. via XAMPP). If you do not already have one, create a database there with the name: "rlskipping". The command for this is:  <blockquote> CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS rlskipping; </blockquote> On Windows:     1) Open a new CMD-Shell.     2) Navigate to the path where the sql file is located.         (e.g.: cd C:\Users\MrScience\Desktop\Work\myProject\Paper\SQL)     3) Import the Files.         (e.g.: mysql -u root -p rlskipping < evaluierung.sql)         (e.g.: mysql -u root -p rlskipping < calculatedsamples.sql)

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Size- and environment-driven seedling survival and growth are mediated by leaf functional traits

Ecologists usually find that plant demography (e.g., survival and growth) changes along with plant size and environmental gradients, which suggests the effects of ontogeny-related processes and abiotic filtering. However, the role of functional traits underlying the plant size- and environment-demography relationships is usually overlooked. By measuring the individual-level leaf traits of more than 2700 seedlings in a temperate forest, we evaluated how seedling functional traits mediated the size- and environment-demography relationships. First, we found leaves were larger for taller seedlings, leaf economics traits were more conservative in taller seedlings and under high light and low elevation conditions. Then, structural equation modeling showed that a higher survival probability for taller seedlings was indirectly driven by their larger leaf area. Although taller seedlings had lower growth rates, larger and more resource-conservative leaves could promote the growth rate of these tall seedlings. Environmental variables did not appear to influence seedling survival and growth directly but did influence growth indirectly by mediating trait variation. Finally, species-specific variation in traits along with size and environments was associated with the species-specific variation in seedling survival and growth. Our study suggests that, not only plant ontogeny- and environment-related ecological processes, functional traits are also important intermediary agents underlying the usually observed plant size- and environment-demography relationships.

FIGURE 7 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 7. Appendages of Anchistrocheles yamaguchii Yajima, 1987. A, antennule; B, antenna; C, mandibula; D, maxillula; E, 5th limb (E1, male, E2, female); F, 6th limb; G, 7th limb. H, brush-shaped organ. A–C and E1, male, SUM-CO-2491; D, F and G, male, SUM-CO-2493; E2, female, SUM-CO-2494. Scale: 100 µm.

FIGURE 3 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 3. Internal lateral view of the male carapace in two Anchistrocheles species. A and B, left and right valves of Anchistrocheles hayatotanakai sp. nov. (male paratype, SUM CO-2482), respectively. C and D, left and right valves of Anchistrocheles yamaguchii Yajima, 1987 (male, SUM-CO-2492), respectively. Scale: 100 µm.

FIGURE 10 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 10. Comparison of carapace sizes in interstitial ostracods from Japan. Size data were obtained from the holotype descriptions in the original papers.

FIGURE 2 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 2. Carapace morphology of Anchistrocheles hayatotanakai sp. nov. A and B, male right and left valves, respectively (SUM-CO-2486, paratype). C and D, internal view of male left and right valves, respectively (SUM-CO-2487, paratype). E and F, external view of female right and left valves, respectively (SUM-CO-2488, paratype). G and H, internal view of female left and right valves, respectively (SUM-CO-2489, paratype). I, dorsal view of male carapace (SUM-CO-2490, paratype). J, central muscle scars on male right valve (SUM-CO-2487, paratype). Scale 1: 200 µm for A–I. Scale 2: 20 µm for J.

FIGURE 5 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 5. Copulatory organs, furcae, and caudal process of Anchistrocheles hayatotanakai sp. nov. (A, male holotype, SUM- CO-2481; B, female paratype, SUM-CO-2485) and Anchistrocheles yamaguchii Yajima, 1987 (C, male SUM-CO-2491; D, female SUM-CO-2494). CA1, clasping apparatus 1; CA2, clasping apparatus 2; CD, copulatory duct; CP, caudal process; DP, distal part of capsule. Scale: 100 µm.

FIGURE 4 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 4. Appendages of Anchistrocheles hayatotanakai sp. nov. A, antennule; B, antenna; C, mandibula; D, maxillula; E, 5th limb (E1, male; E2, female); F, 6th limb; G, 7th limb. H, brush-shaped organ. A, B, D, E1, F, and G, male holotype, SUM- CO-2481; C, male paratype, SUM-CO-2483; E2, female paratype, SUM-CO-2485; H, male paratype, SUM-CO-2484. Scale: 100 µm.

FIGURE 1 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 1. Map showing the sampling locations of Anchistrocheles species. Motojima (A, Loc. 1), Miho-Uchihama (B, Loc. 2), and Arai-Hama (C, Loc. 3).

FIGURE 9 in Two species of the genus Anchistrocheles (Bairdioidea: Ostracoda: Crustacea) from Japan and their developmental characteristics for adaptation to interstitial environments

FIGURE 9. Three-dimensional triangular (ternary) diagram of the carapace developing in three podocopid species. L, length; H, height; W, width. (a), full diagram; (b), close-up view; (c), movement of the average value for each instar.