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Soil microbial and physicochemical data from watersheds impacted by different management practices or wildfire in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, 2023
Four forested watersheds in Western North Carolina with different management practices or disturbance were sampled in the summer of 2023 to compare soil physicochemical, microbial, and functional differences. These data include mineral soil physicochemical properties (location, elevation, aspect, gravimetric moisture content, pH, total carbon and nitrogen, total organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen, total dissolved nitrogen, dissolved inorganic nitrogen (NO3 and NH4), and microbial biomass carbon and nitrogen), soil microbial properties (16S ASV community sequences, ITS ASV community sequences, extracellular enzyme activity, carbon mineralization rates, and ammonium mineralization rates), and organic soil properties (total organic carbon, total carbon and nitrogen, 16S ASV sequences, pH, and moisture). Together, this dataset provides context to understanding the impacts of different management practices and relevant disturbances, such as severe wildfire, on soil in the Southern Appalachian region.
Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: Metrics Data for Quantifying Multidimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California's Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta
<p><strong>SUMMARY</strong><br> These data represent estimated mean value, standard error, and units for a range of metrics by land cover class in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Metrics are grouped into three major categories: Agricultural Livelihoods (including metrics for gross production value, number of agricultural jobs, and annual wages per employee), Water Quality (in terms of the application rates for pesticides identified as critical pesticides, groundwater contaminants, and those posing a high or moderate risk to aquatic organisms), and Climate Change Resilience (qualitative scores representing relative tolerance for heat, drought, and flood).</p> <p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br> These data were developed to facilitate projecting the net impacts of land cover change scenarios on multiple metrics of interest to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, including potential benefits and trade-offs. They were used in initial analyses of scenarios representing habitat restoration and perennial crop expansion, and they are required for using the R package "DeltaMultipleBenefits", which provides the code and work flow for repeating the initial analyses or analyzing new scenarios.</p> <p>For additional details about the development and applications of these data, please see: </p> <ul> <li>Dybala KE, et al. (In review) Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: A Framework for Quantifying Multi-dimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta </li> <li>Dybala KE (2023) <em>DeltaMultipleBenefits: Projecting the Multiple Benefits of Land Cover Change in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.</em> R package version 1.0.0. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7718620. Available from: https://pointblue.github.io/DeltaMultipleBenefits </li> </ul> <p><strong>FUNDING STATEMENT</strong><br> These data were developed as part of the project "Trade-offs and Co-benefits of Landscape Change on Bird Communities and Ecosystem Services in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta", funded by Proposition 1 Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Program, Grant Agreement Number – Q1996022, administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.</p> <p><strong>POINT OF CONTACT</strong><br> Kristen Dybala, Point Blue Conservation Science, kdybala@pointblue.org</p> <p><strong>SUGGESTED CITATION</strong><br> Dybala KE. 2023. Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: Metrics Data for Quantifying Multi-dimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7504874.</p> <p><strong>DATA DISTRIBUTION</strong><br> Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7504874)</p> <p><strong>PROGRESS</strong><br> Complete, but note that the accompanying manuscript has not yet undergone peer-review, and thus these data may require future revision.</p> <p><strong>UPDATE FREQUENCY</strong><br> As Needed</p> <p><strong>DATE</strong><br> These data were compiled in 2022, based on data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 2014-2020 (EDD 2022), annual County Agricultural Commissioners Reports 2014-2020 (CDFA 2022), Pesticide Use Report Data 2014-2018 (CDPR 2022), and qualitative assessments of climate change resilience (Peterson et al. 2020, DSC 2021).</p> <p><strong>Literature Cited:</strong></p> <ul> <li>CDFA. 2022. County Ag Commissioners’ Data Listing. California Department of Food & Agriculture. Available from: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/California/Publications/AgComm/index.php</li> <li>CDPR. 2022. Pesticide Use Report Data. California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Available from: https://www.cdpr.ca.gov/docs/pur/purmain.htm</li> <li>DSC. 2021. Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future. Public Review Draft. Delta Stewardship Council. Available from https://deltacouncil.ca.gov/delta-plan/climate-change</li> <li>EDD. 2022. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). California Employment Development Department. Available from: https://data.edd.ca.gov/Industry-Information-/Quarterly-Census-of-Employment-and-Wages-QCEW-/fisq-v939</li> <li>Peterson C, Marvinney E, Dybala K. 2020. Multiple Benefits from Agricultural and Natural Land Covers in the Central Valley, CA. Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership, Sacramento, CA. Dryad Dataset doi:10.25338/B8061X</li> </ul> <p><strong>FIELD DEFINITIONS</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>METRIC_CATEGORY: </strong>Broad grouping assigned to each METRIC; one of Agricultural Livelihoods, Water Quality, or Climate Change Resilience</li> <li><strong>METRIC: </strong>Specific metric being estimated; one of Agricultural Jobs, Annual Wages, Gross Production Value, Drought, Flood, Heat, Critical Pesticides, Groundwater Contaminant, or Risk to Aquatic Organisms</li> <li><strong>UNIT: </strong>The units in which the <strong>METRIC </strong>is estimated</li> <li><strong>CODE_NAME:</strong> The land cover class or subclass for which the <strong>METRIC </strong>is estimated</li> <li><strong>LABEL: </strong>A more user-friendly version of <strong>CODE_NAME</strong>, useful for creating figures and tables</li> <li><strong>SCORE_MEAN:</strong> The mean value of each METRIC estimated for each land cover class or subclass</li> <li><strong>SCORE_SE: </strong>The standard error of the mean</li> </ul> <p><strong>ABBREVIATION DEFINITIONS</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>FTE: </strong>full-time equivalents; refers to converting monthly agricultural jobs data to annual estimates by dividing by 12</li> <li><strong>ha:</strong> hectares</li> <li><strong>kg: </strong>kilograms</li> <li><strong>USD: </strong>U.S. dollars</li> <li><strong>yr: </strong>year</li> </ul> <p><strong>ACCESS & USE CONSTRAINTS</strong><br> CC-by-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)</p> <p><strong>KEYWORDS</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Themes:</strong> agriculture, livelihoods, economy, water quality, pesticides, climate change, resilience, multiple-benefit conservation</li> <li><strong>Place:</strong> Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Central Valley, California<br> </li> </ul>
Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: Supplemental Spatial Data for Quantifying Multidimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California's Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta
<p><strong>SUMMARY</strong><br> Spatial data representing climate, proximity to streams, and probability of flooding in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.</p> <p><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong><br> These data were compiled as predictors of the distribution of riparian landbird species and groups of waterbird species, to facilitate projecting the probability of species or group presence across a given landscape. They were used to identify Priority Bird Conservation Areas and in analyses of the impacts of scenarios representing habitat restoration and perennial crop expansion on suitable habitat. These data are required for using the R package "DeltaMultipleBenefits", which provides the code and work flow for repeating the initial analyses or analyzing new scenarios.</p> <p>For additional details about the development and applications of these data, please see: </p> <ul> <li>Dybala KE, et al. (<em>In review</em>) Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: A Framework for Quantifying Multi-dimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta</li> <li>Dybala KE, Sesser K, Reiter M, Shuford WD, Golet GH, Hickey C, Gardali T (<em>In review</em>) Priority Bird Conservation Areas in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. </li> <li>Dybala KE (2023) <em>DeltaMultipleBenefits: Projecting the Multiple Benefits of Land Cover Change in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta</em>. R package version 1.0.0. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7718620. Available from: https://pointblue.github.io/DeltaMultipleBenefits.</li> </ul> <p><strong>FUNDING STATEMENT</strong><br> These data were developed as part of the project "Trade-offs and Co-benefits of Landscape Change on Bird Communities and Ecosystem Services in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta", funded by Proposition 1 Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Program, Grant Agreement Number – Q1996022, administered by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.</p> <p><strong>POINT OF CONTACT</strong><br> Kristen Dybala, Point Blue Conservation Science, kdybala@pointblue.org</p> <p><strong>SUGGESTED CITATION</strong><br> Dybala KE. 2023. Multiple-benefit Conservation in Practice: Supplemental Spatial Data for Quantifying Multidimensional Impacts of Landscape Change in California’s Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7672193.</p> <p><strong>DATA DISTRIBUTION</strong><br> Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7672193)</p> <p><strong>PROGRESS</strong><br> Complete</p> <p><strong>UPDATE FREQUENCY</strong><br> None planned</p> <p><strong>DATE</strong><br> These data were compiled in 2022, based on data from WorldClim (representing 1970-2000), National Hydrography Dataset (published 2020), and Point Blue's Water Tracker (representing 2013-2019).</p> <p><strong>FIELD DEFINITIONS</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>bio_1: </strong>annual mean temperature (C), 1970-2000 (WorldClim; Fick and Hijmans 2017)</li> <li><strong>bio_12:</strong> total annual precipitation (mm), 1970-2000 (WorldClim; Fick and Hijmans 2017)</li> <li><strong>streamdist: </strong>square root of the distance to the nearest stream (m) (National Hydrography Dataset; USGS 2020)</li> <li><strong>pwater_fall:</strong> mean probability of open surface water during the fall, 2013-2019 (Point Blue Water Tracker; Reiter et al. 2018)</li> <li><strong>pwater_win:</strong> mean probability of open surface water during the winter, 2013-2019 (Point Blue Water Tracker; Reiter et al. 2018)</li> </ul> <p><strong>Literature Cited</strong></p> <ul> <li>Fick SE, Hijmans RJ. 2017. WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas. Int J Climatol. 37:4302–4315. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5086">https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.5086</a> </li> <li>Reiter ME, Elliott NK, Barbaree B, Moody D. 2018. An automated open surface water tracking system for California’s Central Valley. Report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Petaluma, California: Point Blue Conservation Science. Available from: <a href="https://data.pointblue.org/apps/autowater/ ">https://data.pointblue.org/apps/autowater/ </a></li> <li>[USGS] United States Geological Survey. 2020. National Hydrography Dataset Best Resolution (NHD) for Hydrologic Units (HU) 4 - 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805. Reston (VA): U.S. Geological Survey. Available from: <a href="https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/national-hydrography/access-national-hydrography-products ">https://www.usgs.gov/core-science-systems/ngp/national-hydrography/access-national-hydrography-products </a></li> </ul> <p><strong>ABBREVIATION DEFINITIONS</strong><br> N/A</p> <p><strong>COORDINATE REFERENCE SYSTEM</strong><br> WGS 84 / UTM zone 10N (EPSG:32610)</p> <p><strong>ACCESS & USE CONSTRAINTS</strong><br> CC-by-4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)</p> <p><strong>KEYWORDS</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Themes:</strong> climate, temperature, precipitation, hydrology, streams, water, flood, remote sensing </li> <li><strong>Place: </strong>Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Central Valley, California</li> </ul>
OpenUP survey on researchers' current perceptions and practices in peer review, impact measurement and dissemination of research results
<p>OpenUP project (http://openup-h2020.eu/) conducted a survey to capture current perceptions and practices in peer review, dissemination of research results and impact measurement among European researchers. The survey was coducted between 20 January and 23 February 2017. It consisted of four sections. The first section asked a series of questions on the respondents’ scientific discipline, career stage, gender and other characteristics. The following sections asked a series of questions on peer review practices, dissemination of research results and impact measurement/use of altmetrics. The questionnaire was collaboratively prepared by the OpenUP consortium. </p> <p>The survey was implemented via surveygizmo tool (https://www.surveygizmo.com/). Invitations to participate were sent to a random sample of researchers from arXiv, Pubmed and RePEc. The OpenUP team mined researchers’ contact details from these platforms. The OpenUP project team made efforts to further boost the repondent sample for certain underrepresented areas through the DARIAH website, THESIS network, EURODOC, AIMS portal, the Parthenos community and other channels. The survey targeted researchers from the EU-28, Switzerland and Norway. The goal was to get around 1,000 responses. In total, there were 976 completed response and completion rate was 72.4%. </p> <p>The attached documents include the questionnaire and the dataset. In the dataset (cvs file) the top row contains numbered questions that correspond to the numberring in the questionnaire (word file). The data was exported as an excel file, anonymised by creating respondent IDs and IP data were deleted. The file was then converted to CSV.</p> <p> </p>
Dataset of Impact of pre-breeding feeding practices on rabbit mammary gland development at mid-pregnancy
<p>The dataset includes search results used in article “Impact of pre-breeding feeding practices on rabbit mammary gland development at mid-pregnancy” biorXiv, 2022.01.17.476562, ver. 3 peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Animal Science. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.17.476562">https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.17.476562</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Search Results Description: Please use Figure 1 from paper to trace the data made available and experimental group.</p> <p>The excel “raw data 2022-06-24” file contains the following data</p> <ol> <li>Body weight of each rabbit on a weekly basis</li> <li>Analysis of breeding parameters at mid-pregnancy</li> <li>Histological areas of each mammry tissue measured</li> <li>Optical density values obtained for biochemical leptin concentration determination</li> <li>Optical density values obtained for biochemical triglyceride concentration determination</li> <li>Optical density values obtained for biochemical glucose concentration determination</li> <li>Optical density values obtained for biochemical cholesterol concentration determination</li> <li>RT-qPCR results (Ct) from QuantStudio export for milk protein analysis</li> <li>RT-qPCR results (Ct) from QuantStudio export for lipid metabolism analysisen</li> </ol> <p>“Statistical analysis.doc” contained the description of the statistics used in Excel and the description of the linear mixed model analysis , the reference of the script available by the CRAN project is also include.The R scipt file for using the linear mixed model in R added with the "data-croissance-analysis" file.</p>
Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice: A Patent and Author Survey Analysis
<p>Dataset of the research paper: <strong>Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice: A Patent and Author Survey Analysis</strong></p> <p>Existing work on the practical impact of software engineering (SE) research examines industrial relevance rather than adoption of study results, hence the question of how results have been practically applied remains open. To answer this and investigate the outcomes of impactful research, we performed a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 4 354 SE patents citing 1 690 SE papers published in four leading SE venues between 1975–2017. Moreover, we conducted a survey on 475 authors of 593 top-cited and awarded publications, achieving 26% response rate. Overall, researchers have equipped practitioners with various tools, processes, and methods, and improved many existing products. SE practice values knowledge-seeking research and is impacted by diverse cross-disciplinary SE areas. Practitioner-oriented publication venues appear more impactful than researcher-oriented ones, while industry-related tracks in conferences could enhance their impact. Some research works did not reach a wide footprint due to limited funding resources or unfavorable cost-benefit trade-off of the proposed solutions. The need for higher SE research funding could be corroborated through a dedicated empirical study. In general, the assessment of impact is subject to its definition. Therefore, academia and industry could jointly agree on a formal description to set a common ground for subsequent research on the topic.</p> <p>The following data files are included.</p> <ul> <li><em>./fields</em>: <ul> <li><strong>engi-fields.csv</strong>: Publication and PhD dissertation counts of main engineering branches</li> <li><strong>engi-fields-queries.txt</strong>: Queries applied to Elsevier's Scopus and Open Access Theses and Dissertations databases to retrieve the publication and dissertation counts</li> </ul> </li> <li><em>./patents</em>: <ul> <li><strong>sample-se-references-verified.csv</strong>: Manual verification of a random sample of references by software engineering (SE) patents to SE papers</li> <li><strong>se-cpc.tsv</strong>: Manually-identified SE-related Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) categories</li> <li><strong>se-references-in-patents.csv</strong>: SE references made by SE patents to SE papers</li> <li><em>./patents/litigation</em>: <ul> <li><strong>case-values.csv</strong>: Manually-retrieved litigation damages of citing SE patents</li> <li><strong>lit-per-paper.csv</strong>: Litigation cases of citing SE patents</li> </ul> </li> <li><em>./patents/maintenance</em>: <ul> <li><strong>maint-code-fee-mapping.csv</strong>: Mapping of patent maintenance fee codes to their fee values</li> <li><strong>maint-fees.csv</strong>: Fee values of maintenance fee codes</li> <li><strong>maint-per-paper.csv</strong>: Maintenance fee events of citing SE patents</li> </ul> </li> <li><em>./patents/reports</em>: <ul> <li><strong>lit-sum-per-paper.csv</strong>: Counts and total damages of litigation cases of patent-cited SE papers</li> <li><strong>maint-sum-per-paper.csv</strong>: Counts and total values of maintenance fee events of patent-cited SE papers</li> <li><strong>patent-ref-counts.csv</strong>: SE patent citation counts of patent-cited SE papers</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><em>./survey</em>: <ul> <li><strong>emse-top.csv</strong>: Most-cited papers of the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal</li> <li><strong>icse-bp.csv</strong>: Distinguished papers of the International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE)</li> <li><strong>icse-mip.csv</strong>: Most influential ICSE papers</li> <li><strong>icse-top.csv</strong>: Most-cited ICSE papers</li> <li><strong>survey-questionnaire-emse.pdf</strong>: The EMSE survey questionnaire</li> <li><strong>survey-questionnaire.pdf</strong>: The ICSE, TSE, and TOSEM survey questionnaire</li> <li><strong>survey-responses.csv</strong>: The anonymized survey responses</li> <li><strong>tosem-top.csv</strong>: Most-cited papers of the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)</li> <li><strong>tse-top.csv</strong>: Most-cited papers of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)</li> <li><em>./survey/manual-coding</em>: <ul> <li><strong>feedback.txt</strong>: Manual coding of survey feedback</li> <li><strong>practical-impact.csv</strong>: Manual coding of responses about practical impact of work</li> <li><strong>practical-impact-lack.csv</strong>: Manual coding of responses about lack of practical impact</li> <li><strong>research-methods.csv</strong>: Manual coding of additional research methods of surveyed papers</li> <li><strong>state-of-practice.csv</strong>: Manual coding of responses about changes in state of practice</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li><em>./venues</em>: <ul> <li><strong>se-venues.csv</strong>: Top SE venues according to Google Scholar Metrics</li> <li><strong>se-venues-impact.csv</strong>: SE patent citations and patent-based impact factors of SE venues</li> <li><strong>se-venues-scopus-queries.txt</strong>: Queries applied to Scopus to retrieve the publication counts of the SE venues</li> </ul> </li> </ul>
Data From: Toward a Better Data Management Plan: The Impact of DMPs on Grant Funded Research Practices
<p>Researchers from Montana State University analyzed 186 National Science Foundation (NSF) data management plans, using the Data Management Plans As a Research Tool (DART) rubric.</p>
Data to support the publication "The Impact of Soil-Improving Cropping Practices on Erosion Rates: A Stakeholder-Oriented Field Experiment Assessment" https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090964
<p>Underlying data of soil measurements and analysis by TUC team for the publication “The Impact of Soil-Improving Cropping Practices on Erosion Rates: A Stakeholder-Oriented Field Experiment Assessment” <a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090964">https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090964</a> from the SoilCare project study sites in Crete. </p> <p>Abstract:</p> <p>The risk of erosion is particularly high in Mediterranean areas, especially in areas that are subject to a not so effective agricultural management–or with some omissions–, land abandonment or wildfires. Soils on Crete are under imminent threat of desertification, characterized by loss of vegetation, water erosion, and subsequently, loss of soil. Several large-scale studies have estimated average soil erosion on the island between 6 and 8 Mg/ha/year, but more localized investigations assess soil losses one order of magnitude higher. An experiment initiated in 2017, under the framework of the SoilCare H2020 EU project, aimed to evaluate the effect of different management practices on the soil erosion. The experiment was set up in control versus treatment experimental design including different sets of treatments, targeting the most important cultivations on Crete (olive orchards, vineyards, fruit orchards). The minimum-to-no tillage practice was adopted as an erosion mitigation practice for the olive orchard study site, while for the vineyard site, the cover crop practice was used. For the fruit orchard field, the crop-type change procedure (orange to avocado) was used. The experiment demonstrated that soil-improving cropping techniques have an important impact on soil erosion, and as a result, on soil water conservation that is of primary importance, especially for the Mediterranean dry regions. The demonstration of the findings is of practical use to most stakeholders, especially those that live and work with the local land.</p>
Code and Additional Files for the Manuscript "The Impact of Farming Practices on Resistance to Critically Important Antimicrobials in ESBL or AmpC-producing Escherichia coli in Thailand"
<p>These scripts were used in the"The Impact of Farming Practices on Resistance to Critically Important Antimicrobials in ESBL or AmpC-producing Escherichia coli in Thailand" manuscript. The scripts are ordered for ease of use. It also contains intermediate files and files necessary for the mapping. Table S1 containing the metadata is available in the supplementary information of the manuscript.</p>
Dataset: Seeking feedback and taking action: An evidence based evaluation of the impact of using practice tests with inbuilt feedback in a first-year business class
<p><strong>This data set includes both qualitative and quantitative data.</strong></p> <p><strong>Qualitative, survey data sought student opinions on the purpose of feedback and the actions taken following receipt of feedback.</strong></p> <p>1. Survey data collection began with a 13 question survey used in classes in early February 2020. This initial feedback survey was conducted via MS Forms. The data from this is available in the following files: a. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_rawdata.csv b. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_how-many-times-got-feedback.csv c. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_take-action-after-feedback.csv d. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_type-feedback-you-prefer.csv e. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_purpose-of-feedback.csv f. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_define-feedback.csv g. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_what-makes-feedback-useful.csv h. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_know-how-feedback-effective.csv i. 2020-2-17_feedbacksurvey_1_what-can-institute-do-to-improve-feedback.csv</p> <p><br>2. The first practice test was followed by a short survey of approximately 3 questions (created using MS Forms, a mix of closed and open questions). The data from this is available in the following files: a. 2020-3-2_feedbacksurvey_2_rawdata.csv b. 2020-3-2_action-comments-coded.csv c. 2020-3-2_other-comments-coded.csv d. 2020-3-2_open-question-comments.csv</p> <p>3. The second practice test followed by a 3 question short survey (created using MS Forms, all open questions) The data from this is available in the following files: a. 2020-5-12_feedbacksurvey_3_rawdata.csv b. 2020-5-12_feedbacksurvey_3_what-learn-by-participating.csv c. 2020-5-12_feedbacksurvey_3_what-action-taking.csv d. 2020-5-12_feedbacksurvey_3_has-module-changed-view-of-feedback.csv<br><br><strong>Quantitative data was gathered from Learning Management System, Canvas. This data shows the relationship between number of practice tests taken by students and their resultant grades.</strong></p> <p><br>4. I gathered the number of times students had taken the practice test before the midterm summative exam and compared with the student grades from the 30% midterm summative exam. The data from this is available in the following files: a. 2020-11-26_Canvasdata_midterm.csv</p> <p>5. Following the completion of the second summative exam (worth 70%), Canvas data showing the number of times the students had taken the second practice test and the grade outcomes for the students for the summative 70% test was gathered. The data from this is available in the following files: a. 2020-11-26_Canvasdata_endterm.csv</p> <p><br>6. A regression model was created to examine the impact of number of times that the practice test was taken on final grades, whilst controlling for midterm grades. The data from this is available in the following files: a. 2024-2-12_Anonymised_mid_and_final_grades_with_number_of_practices_before_final_exam.csv</p>
Research integrity practices and environmental impact of research: Questionnaire of the survey conducted at two French institutions
<p>This dataset is a questionnaire designed to evaluate researchers' understanding, application, and perception of responsible research principles, and to identify strengths and weaknesses in their implementation.<br>It contains about thirty questions and covers various and sometimes complex topics: responsible and inclusive research practices, public trust in science, climate crisis, reduction of GHG emissions caused by research activities, research integrity, researchers' engagement in the public sphere.</p> <p>It is divided into 6 sections:<br>- Relations between science and society <br>- Conducting research in a changing world <br>- Ethics and research integrity <br>- Engaged research <br>- Science communication </p> <p>To enable comparative analysis, it incorporates questions from other surveys which are cited as references.</p>
Data from: The impacts of climate change, energy policy, and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People
<p>These data are part of a data portal that accompanies the special issue 'Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture,' published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B in 2023. To access the data portal, please visit <a href="https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4h4"><strong>https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4h4</strong></a>.</p> <p>The files consist of the code of an agent-based model (ABM) in a NetLogo, detailed documentation of the ABM in a standard format, and a table of data exported from the simulation experiment reported on in the paper. By downloading the Netlogo file, one could not only rerun the experiment we report on and recreate the data table but toggle parameters or edit the model to explore other dynamics.</p>
Data from: Impacts of management practices on habitat selection during juvenile mountain lion dispersal
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Data from: The impacts of climate change, energy policy, and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People
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The TEI, Its Foundations and Impact, and How It Fits Into Today's Needs and Practices for Language Analysis
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Shade-growing practices lessen the impact of coffee plantations on multiple dimensions of ant diversity
<p>1. Land use management influence changes in biodiversity beyond the targeted species. Management practices in coffee plantations have shifted from coffee growing below accompanying (shade) trees, to intensified monocultures in which coffee grows fully exposed to the sun. Anthropogenic disturbance causes changes in species composition relative to adjacent natural patches and reduces their biotic heterogeneity. Here, we assessed the impact of coffee plantation management practices on the taxonomical, phylogenetic, and functional composition of ant communities, an ecologically dominant group and crucial biological pest controller in these agroecosystems. We hypothesized that shade-grown coffee plantations would harbor ant communities similar to those of nearby forest patches, but dissimilar to those of intensified monocultures.</p> <p>2. We surveyed ant diversity in eight shade-grown coffee farms, eight intensive coffee monocultures and eight forest patches. We used a combination of active and passive sampling methods over two field campaigns spanning six months.</p> <p>3. Our results support our hypothesis for all diversity dimensions. Additionally, ant communities in intensified monocultures were taxonomically and functionally, but not phylogenetically, more homogeneous than those found in forest patches and shade-grown plantations.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications. Our findings support the idea that practices in shade-grown plantations buffer the impoverishment of multiple diversity dimensions after forest conversion. By assessing and integrating multiple biodiversity dimensions into management strategies, farmers and interested parties can minimize future biodiversity and ecosystem service loss.</p>
Data for: The impacts of bioenergy pine plantation management practices on bee communities
<p>1. Cultivation of bioenergy feedstocks is a growing land-use worldwide, yet we have a poor understanding of how bioenergy crop management practices affect biodiversity. This knowledge gap is particularly acute for candidate cellulosic bioenergy feedstocks, such as tree plantations, and for organisms that provide important ecosystem services, such as pollinators.</p> <p>2. We examined bee communities in 83 sites across three states in the southeastern USA—Alabama, Florida and Georgia. We compared bee abundance and diversity in 66 pine plantation sites that reflect management with and without potential bioenergy feedstock production. At least three bioenergy feedstock production methods have been proposed for this region: 1) converting conventional timber stands to short-rotation bioenergy plantations; 2) harvesting feedstock by thinning conventional plantations; and 3) harvesting of woody debris residues after plantations have been clear-cut.</p> <p>3. We found that bioenergy-associated management practices including younger plantations (relative to older) and woody debris removal (relative to debris unremoved) in clear-cut plantations were associated with reduced bee diversity. Removing ground debris in clear-cut plantations also drastically increased bee abundance, though this effect was largely driven by strong dominance of just two bee species. Clear-cut plantations had lower beta diversity than standing plantations.</p> <p>4. Synthesis and applications. Management practices associated with bioenergy feedstock production can have negative effects on bee community diversity. In particular, harvesting of debris in clear-cut plantations dramatically reduces bee diversity. Large-scale bioenergy feedstock production that increases the prevalence of young and clear-cut stands may cause landscape-level beta diversity to decline. Nevertheless, bioenergy pine plantations likely support higher bee diversity than corn fields, an alternative bioenergy feedstock.</p>
Multidecadal, continent-level analysis indicates agricultural practices impact wheat aphid loads more than climate change
<p><span>Temperature has a large influence on insect abundances, thus under climate change, identifying major drivers affecting pest insect populations is critical to world food security and agricultural ecosystem health. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis with data obtained from 120 studies across China and Europe from 1970 to 2017 to reveal how climate and agricultural practices affect populations of wheat aphids. H</span><span>ere</span><span> we showed that aphid loads on wheat had distinct patterns between these two regions, with a significant increase in China but a decrease in Europe over this time period. Although temperature increased over this period in both regions, we found no evidence showing climate warming affected aphid loads. Rather, differences in pesticide use, fertilization, land use, and natural enemies between China and Europe may be key factors accounting for differences in aphid pest populations. These long-term data suggest that agricultural practices impact wheat aphid loads more than climate warming. </span></p>
Novel husbandry practices result in rapid rates of growth and sexual maturation without impacting adult behavior in the blind Mexican cavefish
<p>The development of animal model systems is dependent on the standardization of husbandry protocols that increase fecundity and reduce generation time. The blind Mexican tetra, <em>Astyanax mexicanus</em>, is an emerging genetic vertebrate model for evolution and biomedical research. Surface and cave populations of <em>A. mexicanus</em> have independently evolved, providing a model system for studying the genetic basis of divergent biological traits. While a rapid increase in the use of <em>A. mexicanus</em> has led to the generation of genetic tools including gene-editing and transgenesis, a slow and inconsistent growth rate remains a major limitation to the expanded application of <em>A. mexicanus</em>. The optimization of husbandry protocols that maximize high-nutrient feed, smaller tank densities, and larger tank sizes across development, would facilitate faster growth and expand the use of this model. Here, we describe standardized husbandry practices that optimize growth through a high-protein diet, increased feeding, growth sorting of larvae and juveniles, and tank size transitions based on standard length. These changes to husbandry had a significant effect on growth rates and decreased the age of sexual maturity in comparison to our previous protocols. To determine whether our nutritional change and increased feeding impacted behavior, we tested fish in exploration and schooling assays. We found that a change in diet had no effect on the behaviors we tested, suggesting that increased feeding and rapid growth will not impact the natural variation in behavioral traits. Taken together, this standardized husbandry protocol will accelerate the development of <em>A. mexicanus</em> as a genetic model.</p>
From CREATE workshop to course implementation: Examining downstream impacts on teaching practices and student learning at 4-year institutions
<p>We provide the full data set for the research study informing the efficacy of the CREATE strategy for positively influencing faculty and students in science courses at ten institutions (4-year). CREATE (consider, read, elucidate hypotheses, analyze, and intrepret data; think of the next experiment) represents a scaffolded approach for teaching students using the primary literature as the foundation of course instruction. In this project, faculty from different institutions were trained in this pedagogy through a week-long workshop and then followed as they adapted CREATE for a science course at their home institutions. We used a variety of assessments (cognitive, affective) to determine the effects of implementation on student cohorts at each institution. These assessments included the <strong>Experimental Design and Ability Test</strong> (EDAT), the <strong>Critical Thinking Test</strong> (CTT, an adaption of the Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide), a <strong>concept-map</strong> test, and an adaption of the <strong>Survey of Student Attitudes, Abilities, and Beliefs</strong> (SAAB) survey. </p>
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