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Regional and local variation in chemical, structural, and physical leaf traits for tree species in the northeastern United States, 2016-2023.
This dataset is a compilation of leaf trait measurements for 25 different Northern American tree species in the northeastern United States collected between 2016 and 2023 by the Terrestrial Ecosystems Analysis Lab at the University of New Hampshire. Currently, this dataset contains measurements for 2,006 samples across 18 chemical, physical, and structural traits. Measured traits include stable isotopes for carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), chlorophyll estimates, leaf and petiole dimensions, and leaf and petiole water content. Traits have been measured at plots spanning a wide range of latitude, longitude, elevation, and forest types. A simple table containing these plot descriptions has been included. Additional leaf physiological and optical traits have been measured concurrently on many of these samples and have been or will be published separately. This is a continuous dataset that will be updated on an as needed basis.
Phenotypic variation and quantitative trait loci for resistance to southern anthracnose and clover rot in red clover
<p>Red clover (<em>Trifolium pratense</em> L.) is an important forage legume of temperate regions, particularly valued for its high yield potential and its high forage quality. Despite substantial breeding progress during the last decades, continuous improvement of cultivars is crucial to ensure yield stability in view of newly emerging diseases or changing climatic conditions. The high amount of genetic diversity present in red clover ecotypes, landraces and cultivars provides an invaluable, but often unexploited resource for the improvement of key traits such as yield, quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.</p> <p>A collection of 397 red clover accessions was genotyped using a pooled genotyping-by-sequencing approach with 200 plants per accession. Resistance to the two most pertinent diseases in red clover production, southern anthracnose caused by <em>Colletotrichum trifolii</em>, and clover rot caused by <em>Sclerotinia trifoliorum, </em>was assessed using spray inoculation. The mean survival rate for southern anthracnose was 22.9% and the mean resistance index for clover rot was 34.0%. Genome-wide association analysis revealed several loci significantly associated with resistance to southern anthracnose and clover rot. Most of these loci are in coding regions. One quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 1 explained 16.8% of the variation in resistance to southern anthracnose. For clover rot resistance we found eight QTL, explaining together 80.2% of the total phenotypic variation. The SNPs associated with these QTL provide, once validated, a promising resource for marker-assisted selection in existing breeding programs, facilitating the development of novel cultivars with increased resistance against two devastating fungal diseases of red clover.</p>
Data set: Variations in water economy traits in two Sphagnum species across their distribution boundaries
<p><em>Sphagnum</em> trait data collected (2016-2017) across a climatic gradient in Sweden. Trait data for both shoot and canopy traits. Data for <em>Sphagnum cuspidatum</em> and <em>Sphagnum lindbergii</em>. Also contains data on species occurrence records in Sweden and output from speceis distribution modelling. See published paper for more information.</p> <p>Files contain (i) processed data ("calculated_trait_data...cvs"), (ii) raw data ("Campbell_etal_clim_traits_...cvs"), (iii) their readme files, and (iv) R-scripts to run the analyses. Note that you need the files in the zip-file to run the analyses in the R-script. The zip-file contains all raw data (climate, traits, species occurences), MaxEnt output, and raster files from photogrammetry.</p> <p>More info in paper: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16347" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16347</a></p>
Phenotypic trait variation of Herminium monorchis in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau with grazing intensity and climatic conditions
This data set contains raw data supporting the research entitled “Livestock grazing outweighs climate in driving trait variation of a widespread alpine plant” (currently under peer review), which documents how phenotypic traits of a widespread herbaceous plant in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Herminium monorchis, vary with grazing intensity and environmental conditions.
Genetic variation in early fitness traits across European populations of silver birch (Betula pendula)
<p>Early life phenotypic data from three <em>Betula pendula</em> common garden experiments spread across the species latitudinal range in Europe.</p>
Leaf growth response to mild drought: natural variation sheds light on trait architecture
<p>Plant growth and crop yield are negatively affected by a reduction in water availability. However, a clear understanding of how growth is regulated under non-lethal drought conditions is lacking. Recent advances in genomics, phenomics and transcriptomics allow in-depth analysis of natural variation. In this study, we conducted a detailed screening of leaf growth responses to mild drought in a worldwide collection of <em>Arabidopsis thaliana</em> accessions. </p> <p>The raw phenotyping can be found in:<br> - cellularData.txt -> mature (23 days after stratification; DAS) leaf epidermis (third leaf) analysed for cell area, cell number, pavement cell area, pavement cell number, stomatal index and leaf area of the analysed leaf.</p> <p>- leaf3AreaMaturity.txt -> area of the third leaf at maturity (23DAs) in mm<sup>2.</sup></p> <p>- leaf3AreaProliferation.txt -> area of the third leaf at proliferation (last day of full cell proliferation; 8-10 DAS) in mm<sup>2</sup>.</p> <p>- rosetteArea Maturity.txt -> projected rosette area at maturity (22DAS)</p> <p>The phenotyping results have been normalised for batch effects ('experiment' in raw data)</p> <p>- allPhenotypesNormalised.txt -> contains the normalised data for all the measured phenotypes</p> <p>All datafiles indicate the accession name ('Accession'), the unique identifier for each accessions ('Ecotype_ID') as used in the 1001genomes project (www.1001genomes.org) and the treatment ('C' indicate well-watered plants, 'S' the mild-drought treated plants).</p> <p>These results and methodological results are described in Clauw et al. (2016, The Plant Cell).</p> <p>Citation:</p> <p><strong>Clauw, Pieter, Frederik Coppens, Arthur Korte, Dorota Herman, Bram Slabbinck, Stijn Dhondt, Twiggy Van Daele, et al. 2016. “Leaf Growth Response to Mild Drought: Natural Variation in Arabidopsis Sheds Light on Trait Architecture.” The Plant Cell, October. doi:10.1105/tpc.16.00483.</strong></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Dataset for: Climate and shared evolutionary history drive trait variation among species of Neotropical understory monocots
<p>Dataset and p-values form phylogenetically generalized least square models accompanying the manuscript "Climate and shared evolutionary history drive trait variation among species of Neotropical understory monocots".</p>
Plant traits shape global spatiotemporal variations in photosynthetic efficiency
<p>Dataset to reproduce key results in the following work: Plant traits shape global spatiotemporal variations in photosynthetic efficiency</p>
Geographical variation in the trait-based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities
<p><span>It has been argu</span><span>ed that the mechanisms structuring ecological communities may be more generalizable when based on traits than on species identities. If so, patterns in the assembly of community-level traits along environmental gradients should be similar in different places in the world. Alternatively, geographic change in the species pool and regional variation in climate might result in site-specific relationships between community traits and local environments. These competing hypotheses are particularly untested for animal communities. </span><span>Here we test the geographic constancy of trait-based assembly patterns using a widespread multi-trophic community: aquatic macroinvertebrates within bromeliads. We used data on 615 invertebrate taxa from 1656 bromeliads in 26 field sites from Mexico to Argentina. We summarized invertebrate traits with four orthogonal axes, and used these trait axes to examine trait convergence and divergence assembly patterns along three environmental gradients: detrital biomass and water volume in bromeliads, and canopy cover over bromeliads. </span><span>We found no overall signal of trait-based assembly patterns along any of the environmental gradients. However, individual sites did show trait convergence along detrital and water gradients, and we built predictive models to explore these site differences. </span><span>Sites that showed trait convergence along detrital gradients were all north of the Northern Andes. This geographic pattern may be related to phylogeographic differences in bromeliad morphology. Bromeliads with low detritus were dominated by detritivorous collectors and filter feeders, where those with high detritus had more sclerotized and predatory invertebrates. </span><span>Sites that showed the strongest trait convergence along gradients in bromeliad water were in regions with seasonal precipitation. In such sites, bromeliads with low water were dominated by soft-bodied, benthic invertebrates with simple life cycles. In less seasonal sites, traits associated with short-term desiccation resistance, such as hard exoskeletons, were more important.</span><span> In summary, we show that there are strong geographic effects on the trait-based assembly patterns of this invertebrate community, driven by the biogeography of their foundational plant species as well as by regional climate. We suggest that inclusion of biogeography and climate in trait-based community ecology could help make it a truly general theory. (excerpted from Srivastava, DS et al. 2022. Geographical variation in the trait-based assembly patterns of multitrophic invertebrate communities. Functional Ecology)</span></p>
Dataset: Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards
<p>Dataset and R code associated with the following publication:</p> <p>Badiane et al. (2022), Environmental conditions and male quality traits simultaneously explain variation of multiple colour signals in male lizards. Journal of Animal Ecology, in press</p> <p>This dataset includes the following files:</p> <p>- An excel file containing the reflectance spectra of all individuals from all the study populations</p> <p>- An excel file containing the variables collected at the individual and population levels</p> <p>- Two R scripts corresponding to the analyses performed in the publication</p>
Genome-wide association implicates numerous genes underlying ecological trait variation in natural populations of Populus trichocarpa
In order to uncover the genetic basis of phenotypic trait variation, we used 448 unrelated wild accessions of black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) from much of its range in western North America. Extensive data from large-scale trait phenotyping (with spatial and temporal replications within a common garden) and genotyping (with a 34 K Populus single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array) of all accessions were used for gene discovery in a genome-wide association study (GWAS). We performed GWAS with 40 biomass, ecophysiology and phenology traits and 29 355 filtered SNPs representing 3518 genes. The association analyses were carried out using a Unified Mixed Model accounting for population structure effects among accessions. We uncovered 410 significant SNPs using a Bonferroni-corrected threshold (P < 1.7 × 10−6). Markers were found across 19 chromosomes, explained 1–13% of trait variation, and implicated 275 unique genes in trait associations. Phenology had the largest number of associated genes (240 genes), followed by biomass (53 genes) and ecophysiology traits (25 genes). The GWAS results propose numerous loci for further investigation. Many traits had significant associations with multiple genes, underscoring their genetic complexity. Genes were also identified with multiple trait associations within and/or across trait categories. In some cases, traits were genetically correlated while in others they were not.
Genome-wide association implicates numerous genes underlying ecological trait variation in natural populations of Populus trichocarpa
In order to uncover the genetic basis of phenotypic trait variation, we used 448 unrelated wild accessions of black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) from much of its range in western North America. Extensive data from large-scale trait phenotyping (with spatial and temporal replications within a common garden) and genotyping (with a 34 K Populus single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) array) of all accessions were used for gene discovery in a genome-wide association study (GWAS). We performed GWAS with 40 biomass, ecophysiology and phenology traits and 29 355 filtered SNPs representing 3518 genes. The association analyses were carried out using a Unified Mixed Model accounting for population structure effects among accessions. We uncovered 410 significant SNPs using a Bonferroni-corrected threshold (P < 1.7 × 10−6). Markers were found across 19 chromosomes, explained 1–13% of trait variation, and implicated 275 unique genes in trait associations. Phenology had the largest number of associated genes (240 genes), followed by biomass (53 genes) and ecophysiology traits (25 genes). The GWAS results propose numerous loci for further investigation. Many traits had significant associations with multiple genes, underscoring their genetic complexity. Genes were also identified with multiple trait associations within and/or across trait categories. In some cases, traits were genetically correlated while in others they were not.
Fig. 3 in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Ground Beetle Carabus cumanus Fischer von Waldheim, 1823 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) and its Variation in Different Traits
Fig. 3. Results of RMA regression in C. cumanus traits: a - elytra length, b - elytra width, c - pronotum length, d - pronotum width, e - head length, f - distance between eyes (1 - steppe biotope, 2 - forest biotope. Circles and triangles denote individuals measured in forest and steppe biotopes respectively. Black dotted line denotes isometry)
Fig. 4 in Sexual Size Dimorphism in Ground Beetle Carabus cumanus Fischer von Waldheim, 1823 (Coleoptera, Carabidae) and its Variation in Different Traits
Fig. 4. Values of SSD in different traits in C. cumanus. Significant values of SSD (due to Fig. 3, where deviation from isometric curve were significant) are marked by asterisks (A - elytra length, B - elytra width, V - pronotum length, G - pronotum width, D - head length, E - distance between eyes)
Fig. 3 in Variation In Cone And Seed Morphology Traits Among The Mitochondrial Dna Haplotypes Of Scots Pine (Pinus Sylvestris L.)
Fig. 3. Dependence of seed number per cone on cone length for the type A and type B mitotypes of Scots pine. Individual cone values are shown.
FIGURE 5 in INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ACOUSTIC TRAITS AND BODY SIZE, AND NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR PSEUDOPALUDICOLA GIARETTAI CARVALHO, 2012 (ANURA, LEPTODACTYLIDAE, LEIUPERINAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS CONGENERIC DIAGNOSIS
FIGURE 5: Scatterplot of the first two principal component scores (PCs) from acoustic traits of six populations of P. giarettai. Yellow (Curvelo; type locality); purple (Chapada Gaúcha); green (Coromandel); red (Buritis); blue (Buritizeiro); pink (Unaí).
FIGURE 3 in INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ACOUSTIC TRAITS AND BODY SIZE, AND NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR PSEUDOPALUDICOLA GIARETTAI CARVALHO, 2012 (ANURA, LEPTODACTYLIDAE, LEIUPERINAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS CONGENERIC DIAGNOSIS
FIGURE 3: Advertisement call of P. giarettai from the type locality (Curvelo, Minas Gerais). From top to bottom: oscillogram section (ca. 1.6 s) depicting calling pattern, waveform, spectrogram, and power spectrum of the second advertisement from oscillogram section. Sound energy with relative amplitude below 40 dB was clipped to zero dB to remove background noise from power spectrum.
FIGURE 2 in INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ACOUSTIC TRAITS AND BODY SIZE, AND NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR PSEUDOPALUDICOLA GIARETTAI CARVALHO, 2012 (ANURA, LEPTODACTYLIDAE, LEIUPERINAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS CONGENERIC DIAGNOSIS
FIGURE 2: Adult specimens of P. giarettai in life from: Above – Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas, Chapada Gaúcha, Minas Gerais (voucher male AAG-UFU 1920: CRC = 14.6 mm); Below – Coromandel (female AAG-UFU 3566: CRC 18.8 mm).
FIGURE 4 in INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ACOUSTIC TRAITS AND BODY SIZE, AND NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR PSEUDOPALUDICOLA GIARETTAI CARVALHO, 2012 (ANURA, LEPTODACTYLIDAE, LEIUPERINAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS CONGENERIC DIAGNOSIS
FIGURE 4: Advertisement call of P. giarettai from the Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas (Chapada Gaúcha, Minas Gerais). From top to bottom: oscillogram section (ca. 1.6 s) depicting calling pattern, waveform, spectrogram, and power spectrum of the second advertisement from oscillogram section. Sound energy with relative amplitude below 40 dB was clipped to zero dB to remove background noise from power spectrum.
FIGURE 6 in INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION IN ACOUSTIC TRAITS AND BODY SIZE, AND NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR PSEUDOPALUDICOLA GIARETTAI CARVALHO, 2012 (ANURA, LEPTODACTYLIDAE, LEIUPERINAE): IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS CONGENERIC DIAGNOSIS
FIGURE 6: Typical breeding habitat of P. giarettai: a permanent pond associated with a Buriti palm grove marsh at the Parque Nacional Grande Sertão Veredas (Municipality of Chapada Gaúcha), northwestern Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil.
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