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Colony forming unit (CFU) data accompanying publication: Bacterial microbiome dynamics in commercial integrated aquaculture systems growing Ulva in abalone effluent water.
<p>Excel sheet with colony forming unit (CFU) data from an abalone farm growing the green seaweed <em>Ulva </em>in abalone effluent water. This dataset characterises the bacterial communities isolated from abalone effluent water entering and leaving the <em>Ulva </em>raceways, as well as from <em>Ulva </em>itself. Dataset is accompanied by two SigmaPlot files showing statistical analyses (statistical outcomes also available in publication).</p>
Data from: When the "selfish herd" becomes the "frozen herd": spatial dynamics and population persistence in a colonial seabird
Aggregations are common in ecological systems at a range of scales and may be driven by exogenous constraints such as environmental heterogeneity and resource availability or by 'self-organizing' interactions among individuals. One mechanism leading to self-organized animal aggregations is captured by Hamilton's 'selfish herd' hypothesis, which suggests that aggregations may be driven by an individual's effort to minimize their risk of predation by surrounding themselves with conspecifics. We demonstrate that aggregations observed in Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) colonies are a convolution of both self-organized dynamics and external forcing arising from landscape terrain. In fluid, highly mobile aggregations, individuals are constantly moving in response to changing environmental conditions, the locations of predators, or the movements of conspecifics. However, when the ability to rearrange is limited and spatial reconfiguration occurs on slower time scales than changes in population size, systems may become trapped in sub-optimal arrangements. We use simulated annealing to demonstrate that Adélie penguin colonies are frozen in sub-optimal spatial arrangements, and employ an individual-based modelling approach to demonstrate that this sub-optimal spatial configuration is driven by a convolution of nest site fidelity and stochastic events at the level of individual nests. The resulting spatial dynamics are responsible for a hysteretic response to long-term changes in abundance. We find that declining abundance leads to fragmentation even in a homogeneous environment, which has population-level consequences for reproductive success because predation is biased towards colony edges. Strong edge effects from heterogeneous predation coupled with fragmentation in response to population declines creates a positive feedback cycle that can accelerate population decline. This work provides a mechanistic understanding of complex spatial structuring in penguin colonies, provides a link between current spatial patterning and past dynamics, and suggests the possibility of critical collapse in seabird populations.
Data from: When the "selfish herd" becomes the "frozen herd": spatial dynamics and population persistence in a colonial seabird
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Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies
<p>Infections early in life can have enduring effects on an organism's development and immunity. In this study, we show that this equally applies to developing "superorganisms" – incipient social insect colonies. When we exposed newly mated <i>Lasius niger</i> ant queens to a low pathogen dose, their colonies grew more slowly than controls before winter, but reached similar sizes afterwards. Independent of exposure, queen hibernation survival improved when the ratio of pupae to workers was small. Queens that reared fewer pupae before worker emergence exhibited lower pathogen levels, indicating that high brood rearing efforts interfere with the ability of the queen's immune system to suppress pathogen proliferation. Early-life queen pathogen-exposure also improved the immunocompetence of her worker offspring, as demonstrated by challenging the workers to the same pathogen a year later. Transgenerational transfer of the queen's pathogen experience to her workforce can hence durably reduce the disease susceptibility of the whole superorganism.</p>
Negative effects of excessive heat on colony thermoregulation and population dynamics in honey bees
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Early queen infection shapes developmental dynamics and induces long-term disease protection in incipient ant colonies
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Last Glacial and Holocene dynamics override post-colonial disturbance in shaping genetic diversity of a heavily exploited palaeoendemic conifer, <em>Lagarostrobos franklinii</em>
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Data from: Survival and recruitment dynamics of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa Tridactyla at an Alaskan colony
Most seabirds breed colonially and exhibit considerable site fidelity over the course of their long lifespans. Initial colony selection can therefore have substantial fitness consequences, but factors contributing to recruitment into colonies and subsequent fidelity remain unclear. We used multi-state capture-recapture models to test several hypotheses related to apparent fledgling survival, probability of recruitment to natal colonies, and apparent post-recruitment survival in Black-legged Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla, using data from individuals banded as chicks and subsequently resighted at a colony in south-central Alaska over a 20-year period. Competitive models suggested that apparent fledgling survival declined throughout our study. This decline was likely driven by intrinsic, cohort-specific processes and was not explainable by post-fledging weather or climate conditions. Independent resightings at other colonies suggest the apparent decline may have been at least partially influenced by permanent emigration (natal dispersal), which occurred more frequently when the colony size was large. Recruitment was primarily age-dependent, with no detectable effects from early life experience or from annual changes in four factors: colony size, colony productivity, climate, or average weather conditions. We estimated an average recruitment age of seven years, which is older than typically reported for Atlantic kittiwake populations and which supports a more conservative life history strategy for kittiwakes in the Pacific. Variation in the apparent survival of recruits was cohort-specific and did not correlate with age or annual changes in the factors listed above. Instead, apparent survival of recruits was best explained by colony size during a cohort's second year, suggesting a degree of negative density dependence in post-recruitment survival or fidelity. This information could prove useful to managers deciding how to allocate resources among small, growing colonies and large, well-established colonies.
Vitellogenins level as a biomarker of the honey bee colony seasonal dynamics
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Early resources lead to persistent benefits for bumble bee colony dynamics
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Data from: Survival and recruitment dynamics of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa Tridactyla at an Alaskan colony
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Spatial alanine metabolism determines local growth dynamics of Escherichia coli colonies
GEO Series GSE175768. Escherichia coli. 48 samples. Type: Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing.
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