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Data from: Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of waterfowl productivity are synchronous across species, space, and time
<p>We used hierarchical random-effects models to examine interspecific and spatial variation in annual productivity in six migratory ducks (i.e., American wigeon [<em>Mareca americana</em>], blue-winged teal [<em>Spatula discors</em>], gadwall [<em>Mareca strepera</em>], green-winged teal [<em>Anas crecca</em>], mallard [<em>Anas platyrhynchos</em>] and northern pintail [<em>Anas acuta</em>]) across six distinct ecostrata in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America (Alberta parkland, Alberta prairie, Saskatchewan parkland, Saskatchewan prairie, Manitoba parkland, US prairie). We tested whether breeding habitat conditions (seasonal pond counts, agricultural intensification, and grassland acreage) or cross-seasonal effects (indexed by flooded rice acreage in primary wintering areas) better explained variation in the proportion of juveniles captured during late summer banding. This submission comprises model code and data of banded birds by species, breeding population survey by species, proportion of ecostratum in conservation tillage (a proxy for agriculutral intensification), proportion of ecostratum in grassland, mean winter precipitation for Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast, total hectares of rice planted in the US, as well as hectares of flooded rice in the Pacific Coast and Gulf Coast. </p>
Text-fig. 7. SEM (a) and SRXTM (b–e) images of Miranthus kvacekii sp. nov.; Mira locality, Portugal. a: Lateral view of flower bud showing corolla lobes extending beyond calyx; note surface of pedicel, calyx and corolla with small equiaxial epidermal cells and indumentum of densely spaced, short stiff trichomes. b, c: Longitudinal sections through floral bud in two directions perpendicular to each other (a, orthoslice yz1024; b, orthoslice xz0950) showing corolla (co), calyx (ca), stamens (st) and semi-inferior ovary with thin ovary wall (ow) and central mushroom-shaped globose placenta (pl) bearing numerous ovules (ov). d, e: Transverse sections through floral bud above placenta (d, orthoslice xy0915; e, orthoslice xy1095) showing calyx (ca), corolla (co), ovary wall (ow) and ovules (ov); yellow outlines indicate the positions of anthers (d) and filaments (e); orange outlines indicate the position of three of the possible staminodes. Specimen, Mira 100-S170157 (a–e, holotype). Scale bars = 600 µm (a–c), 300 µm (d, e). in Early Flowers Of Primuloid Ericales From The Late Cretaceous Of Portugal And Their Ecological And Phytogeographic Implications
Text-fig. 7. SEM (a) and SRXTM (b–e) images of Miranthus kvacekii sp. nov.; Mira locality, Portugal. a: Lateral view of flower bud showing corolla lobes extending beyond calyx; note surface of pedicel, calyx and corolla with small equiaxial epidermal cells and indumentum of densely spaced, short stiff trichomes. b, c: Longitudinal sections through floral bud in two directions perpendicular to each other (a, orthoslice yz1024; b, orthoslice xz0950) showing corolla (co), calyx (ca), stamens (st) and semi-inferior ovary with thin ovary wall (ow) and central mushroom-shaped globose placenta (pl) bearing numerous ovules (ov). d, e: Transverse sections through floral bud above placenta (d, orthoslice xy0915; e, orthoslice xy1095) showing calyx (ca), corolla (co), ovary wall (ow) and ovules (ov); yellow outlines indicate the positions of anthers (d) and filaments (e); orange outlines indicate the position of three of the possible staminodes. Specimen, Mira 100-S170157 (a–e, holotype). Scale bars = 600 µm (a–c), 300 µm (d, e).
Text-fig. 6. Transmitted light microphotographs of permineralized wood from Govone. a, b: cf. Cupressinoxylon sp., radial section, MGPT-PU141105, a – nodular end of ray parenchyma (arrow), b – thick and pitted horizontal walls of ray parenchyma (arrow). c–f: Pinaceae gen. et sp. indet., MGPT-PU141107, c – abnormal discoloration due to ecological disruptions (radial section), d – rays up to 10 cells high, uniseriate, partly biseriate (black arrow), intercellular spaces observed (white arrows) (tangential section), e – large, thick-walled axial resin canal with more than 9 epithelial cells observed, axial resin canal diameter>60 Μm (transverse section), f – spiral thickenings due to compression (white arrow) (radial section). in Remains Of A Subtropical Humid Forest In A Messinian Evaporitebearing Succession At Govone, Northwestern Italy - Preliminary Results
Text-fig. 6. Transmitted light microphotographs of permineralized wood from Govone. a, b: cf. Cupressinoxylon sp., radial section, MGPT-PU141105, a – nodular end of ray parenchyma (arrow), b – thick and pitted horizontal walls of ray parenchyma (arrow). c–f: Pinaceae gen. et sp. indet., MGPT-PU141107, c – abnormal discoloration due to ecological disruptions (radial section), d – rays up to 10 cells high, uniseriate, partly biseriate (black arrow), intercellular spaces observed (white arrows) (tangential section), e – large, thick-walled axial resin canal with more than 9 epithelial cells observed, axial resin canal diameter>60 Μm (transverse section), f – spiral thickenings due to compression (white arrow) (radial section).
FIGURE 3 in Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts
FIGURE 3 Variation in HeV AUC from flying foxes. (A) The forest plot displays annual estimates and 95% confidence intervals ordered by latitude and year; points are scaled by the inverse sampling variance. The horizontal axis uses a modulus transformation to accommodate wide upper bounds of some confidence intervals. (B) Fitted values and 95% confidence intervals for the top GAM, with raw data (scaled by inverse sampling variance) and modelled means coloured by roost type. Transparency denotes AUC derived from truncated time series (≤20 weeks)
FIGURE 2 Fitted HeV urine pool prevalence and 95 in Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts
FIGURE 2 Fitted HeV urine pool prevalence and 95% confidence intervals from the most parsimonious GAMM with week, seasonal interactions with roost type and previous food shortages, and an adjustment for relative abundance of Pteropus alecto. Weekly data are overlaid, coloured by roost type, and sized by corresponding P. alecto relative abundance. Thin lines show the fitted curves from the random factor smooth including each roost per year
FIGURE 1 in Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts
FIGURE 1 Spatiotemporal variation in HeV shedding for the nine Australian flying fox roosts sampled from 2012 through 2014. Curve height indicates the weekly proportion of HeV-positive urine pools, with roosts shown in order of latitude and coloured by roost type. Ticks show sampling time points. Dark grey shading indicates regional acute food shortage events, and dashed lines with light grey shading indicate the Austral winter (i.e. June through August)
FIGURE 4 in Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts
FIGURE 4 Spatiotemporal variation in regional HeV spillover events during the flying fox surveillance period (2012–2014) and its relationship with HeV AUC. (a) Maps display the annual distributions of spillovers (coloured by year) in relation to the nine analysed roosts. (b) Modelled relationships between AUC and spillover counts are shown with fitted values and 95% confidence intervals from GAMs for 50, 100, 200, 300, 400 and 500 km buffers of each roost. Raw data are overlaid and scaled by the inverse of the sampling variance for AUC
Data from: Differential use of nest materials and niche space among avian species within a single ecological community
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Data for: Ecological pathways connecting drought to stream invertebrate community shifts across space and time
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Data from: Ecological and anthropogenic drivers of waterfowl productivity are synchronous across species, space, and time
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Behaviour across time and space–how large scale ‘trait-based’ approaches can shape behavioural ecology
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Unique genetic signatures of local adaptation over space and time for diapause, an ecologically relevant complex trait, in Drosophila melanogaster
<p>Organisms living in seasonally variable environments utilize cues such as light and temperature to induce plastic responses, enabling them to exploit favorable seasons and avoid unfavorable ones. Local adapation can result in variation in seasonal responses, but the genetic basis and evolutionary history of this variation remains elusive. Many insects, including <i>Drosophila melanogaster,</i> are able to undergo an arrest of reproductive development (diapause) in response to unfavorable conditions. In <i>D. melanogaster</i>, the ability to diapause is more common in high latitude populations, where flies endure harsher winters, and in the spring, reflecting differential survivorship of overwintering populations. Using a novel hybrid swarm-based genome wide association study, we examined the genetic basis and evolutionary history of ovarian diapause. We exposed outbred females to different temperatures and day lengths, characterized ovarian development for over 2800 flies, and reconstructed their full phased genomes. We found that diapause scored at two different developmental cutoffs has modest heritability, and we identified hundreds of SNPs associated with each of the two phenotypes. Alleles associated with one of the diapause phenotypes tend to be more common at higher latitudes, but these alleles do not show predictable seasonal variation. The collective signal of many small-effect, clinally varying SNPs can plausibly explain latitudinal phenotypic variation seen in North America. SNPs associated with diapause do not exhibit signs of recent selective sweeps, but most are segregating at relatively high frequencies in Africa, suggesting that variation in diapause relies on ancestral polymorphisms. Finally, we utilized outdoor mesocosms to track diapause under natural conditions. We found that hybrid swarms reared outdoors evolved increased propensity for diapause in late fall, whereas indoor control populations experienced no such change. Our results indicate that diapause is a complex, quantitative trait with different evolutionary patterns across time and space.</p>
Data from: Population genetic and field ecological analyses return similar estimates of dispersal over space and time in an endangered amphibian
The explosive growth of empirical population genetics has seen a proliferation of analytical methods leading to a steady increase in our ability to accurately measure key population parameters, including genetic isolation, effective population size, and gene flow in natural systems. Assuming they yield similar results, population genetic methods offer an attractive complement to, or replacement of, traditional field ecological studies. However, empirical assessments of the concordance between direct field ecological and indirect population genetic studies of the same populations are uncommon in the literature. In this study, we investigate genetic isolation, rates of dispersal, and population sizes for the endangered California tiger salamander, Ambystoma californiense, across multiple breeding seasons in an intact vernal pool network. We then compare our molecular results to a previously published study based on multi-year, mark-recapture data from the same breeding sites. We found that field and genetic estimates of population size were only weakly correlated, but dispersal rates were remarkably congruent across studies and methods. In fact, dispersal probability functions derived from genetic data and traditional field ecological data were a significant match, suggesting that either method can be used effectively to assess population connectivity. These results provide one of the first explicit tests of the correspondence between landscape genetic and field ecological approaches to measuring functional population connectivity and suggest that even single-year genetic samples can return biologically meaningful estimates of natural dispersal and gene flow.
Data from: coexistence across space and time: social-ecological patterns within a decade of human-coyote interactions in San Francisco
<p><span>Global change is increasing the frequency and severity of human-wildlife interactions by pushing people and wildlife into increasingly resource-limited shared spaces. To understand the dynamics of human-wildlife interactions, and what may constitute human-wildlife coexistence in the Anthropocene, there is a critical need to explore the spatial, temporal, sociocultural, and ecological variables that contribute to human-wildlife conflicts in urban areas.</span></p> <p><span>Due to their opportunistic foraging and behavioral flexibility, coyotes (<em>Canis latrans</em>) frequently interact with people in urban environments. San Francisco, California, USA hosts a very high density of coyotes, making it an excellent region for analyzing urban human-coyote interactions and attitudes toward coyotes over time and space.</span></p> <p><span>We used a community-curated long-term data source from San Francisco Animal Care and Control to summarize a decade of coyote sightings and human-coyote interactions in San Francisco and to characterize spatiotemporal patterns of attitudes and interaction types in relation to housing density, socioeconomics, pollution and human vulnerability metrics, and green space availability.</span></p> <p><span>We found that human-coyote conflict reports have been significantly increasing over the past 5 years and that there were more conflicts during the coyote pup-rearing season (April-June), the dry season (June-September), and the COVID-19 pandemic. Conflict reports were also more likely to involve dogs and occur inside of parks, despite more overall sightings occurring outside of parks. Generalized linear mixed models revealed that conflicts were more likely to occur in places with higher vegetation greenness and median income. Meanwhile reported coyote boldness, hazing, and human attitudes toward coyotes were also correlated with pollution burden and human population vulnerability indices.</span></p> <p><span><em>Synthesis and applications</em>: </span><span>Our results provide compelling evidence suggesting that human-coyote conflicts are intimately associated with social-ecological heterogeneities and time, emphasizing that the road to coexistence will require socially-informed strategies. Additional long-term research articulating how the social-ecological drivers of conflict (e.g., human food subsidies, interactions with domestic species, climate-induced droughts, socioeconomic disparities, etc.) change over time will be essential in building adaptive management efforts that effectively mitigate future conflicts from occurring. </span></p>
Supplementary material 1 from: Fernandes N, Ferreira EM, Pita R, Mira A, Santos SM (2022) The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae. In: Santos S, Grilo C, Shilling F, Bhardwaj M, Papp CR (Eds) Linear Infrastructure Networks with Ecological Solutions. Nature Conservation 47: 177-196. https://doi.org/10.3897/natureconservation.47.71864
The effect of habitat encroachment by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered vole
Traits and ecological space availability predict avian densities at the country scale of the Czech Republic
<p><span>Species geographical distributions and abundances are a central focus of current ecological research. Although multiple studies have been conducted on their elucidation, some important information are still missing. One of them is the knowledge of ecological traits of species responsible for the population density variations across geographical (i.e. total physical area) and ecological spaces (i.e. suitable habitat area). This is crucial for understanding how ecological specialisation shapes the geographical distribution of species, and provides key knowledge about the sensitivity of species to current environmental challenges. Here, we precisely describe habitat availability for individual species using fine-scale field data collected across the entire Czech Republic. In the next step, we used this information to test the relationships between bird traits and country-scale estimates of population densities assessed in both geographical and ecological space.</span><span> We did not find any effect of habitat specialisation on avian density in geographical space. But when we recalculated densities for ecological space available, we found a positive correlation with habitat specialization. Specialists occur at higher densities</span><span> in suitable habitats. Moreover, birds with arboreal and </span><span>hole-nesting strategies showed higher densities in both geographical and ecological spaces. However, we found no significant </span><span>effects of morphological (body mass, structural body size) and reproductive (position along </span><span>the slow-fast life-history continuum)</span><span> traits on avian densities in either geographical or ecological space. Our findings suggest that ecological space availability is a strong determinant of avian abundance and highlight the importance of precise knowledge of species-specific habitat requirements. Revival of this classical but challenging ecological topic of habitat-specific densities is needed for both proper understanding of pure ecological issues and practical steps in </span><span>the conservation of nature.</span></p>
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts
<p>The ecological conditions experienced by wildlife reservoirs affect infection dynamics and thus the distribution of pathogen excreted into the environment, which have been hypothesized to shape risks of zoonotic spillover. However, few systems have data on both long-term ecological conditions and pathogen excretion to advance mechanistic understanding and test environmental drivers of spillover risk. We here analyze three years of Hendra virus data from nine Australian flying fox roosts with covariates derived from long-term studies of bat ecology. We show that the magnitude of winter pulses of viral excretion, previously considered idiosyncratic, are most pronounced after recent food shortages and in bat populations displaced to novel habitats. We further show that cumulative pathogen excretion over time is shaped by bat ecology and positively predicts spillover frequency. Our work emphasizes the role of reservoir host ecology in shaping pathogen excretion and provides a new approach to estimate spillover risk.</p>
Data from: Evolution of codfishes (Teleostei: Gadinae) in geographical and ecological space: evidence that physiological limits drove diversification of subarctic fishes
Aim: To develop a holistic biogeographical history of codfishes in the subfamily Gadinae based on historical relationships, ecological niche, and evolution of physiological tolerances. Two alternative diversification scenarios were tested in two co-distributed, Northern Hemisphere clades: (1) clade ancestors were temperate, and environmental niche has been conserved over evolutionary time, implying that speciation was driven by vicariance associated with ice sheet formation; and (2) clade ancestors were Arctic, and species convergently adapted to temperate environmental conditions, implying that speciation was driven by repeated adaption to temperate environments. Location: Northern Hemisphere Arctic and subarctic oceans. Methods: Fifty-five new sequences of four genes from 23 tissue samples were combined with 10 GenBank sequences to generate a time-calibrated phylogenetic hypothesis. Combining the phylogeny with information on species' ecological niche tolerances inferred from correlational models, I reconstructed ancestral environmental tolerances of each of the focal clades. These results were combined with Bayesian area-based biogeographical analysis and regional palaeoclimatic history to develop a holistic biogeographical history of Gadinae. Results: Of 18 environmental variables describing species' tolerances to salinity, temperature, sea ice concentration, and mixed layer depth, only mean, maximum and minimum sea bottom temperature, and mean and minimum sea surface temperature showed phylogenetic signal across Gadinae. Both ecological niche and geographical distributions of gadine fishes are largely conservative, but two clades contain both Pacific and Atlantic species. Focal clade divergence time estimates suggest a Pliocene origin for both, with further Pleistocene divergence. Main conclusions: Reconstructed ancestral environmental tolerances of crown cods and tomcods support a temperate origin of both groups. The timing of diversification of these two clades and the intolerance of temperate species to sea ice suggest that cyclical Arctic ice formation drove divergence. Future sea ice reduction may have dramatic consequences for distributions and persistence of commercially important species when currently allopatric temperate species come into secondary contact.
Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts
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Data from: coexistence across space and time: social-ecological patterns within a decade of human-coyote interactions in San Francisco
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