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- Creator:
- Abraczinskas, Carol and Capobianco, Alessio
- Description:
- These files (.tiff format) provide high-resolution images of a fossil specimen complementing the formal description of the osteoglossid fish †Macroprosopon hiltoni from the Eocene (Ypresian) of Morocco.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, Osteoglossidae, FSAC, Faculty of Sciences Aïn Chock, Casablanca, Morocco, and Eocene
- Discipline:
- Science
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Zagorë
User Collection- Creator:
- Galaty, Michael
- Description:
- The following works contain the databases, field notebooks, unit and profile drawings, photographs, photo descriptions, radiocarbon dates, and geophysical survey data related to the Zagorë settlement excavation.
- Keyword:
- archaeology
- Discipline:
- Science and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Holmes, Iris A, Monagan Jr., Ivan V, Westphal, Michael F, and Davis Rabosky, Alison R
- Description:
- We generated these data from desert night lizards, Xantusia vigilis, from populations in central California. We performed phylogeographic analyses based on these data.
- Keyword:
- ddRADseq, phylogeography, Xantusia vigilis, lizard, and genome-scale sequencing
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Steiner, A.L. and Kawecki, S.
- Description:
- Kansas City, MO emissions can affect a severe weather system by altering the number of CCN, which drives changes in the hydrometeor development. The hydrometeor changes affect cold pool strength, size, and propagation which ultimately determine the strength of the squall line that crosses Kansas City, MO.
- Keyword:
- Great Plains, aerosols, mesoscale convective systems, and weather
- Citation to related publication:
- Kawecki, S., G.M. Henebry, and A.L. Steiner, 2016: Effects of Urban Plume Aerosols on a Mesoscale Convective System. J. Atmos. Sci., 73, 4641–4660, https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-16-0084.1
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Steiner, Allison and Kawecki, Stacey
- Description:
- WRF-Chem model
- Keyword:
- aerosols and weather
- Citation to related publication:
- Kawecki, S., Steiner, A.L., 2018. The Influence of Aerosol Hygroscopicity on Precipitation Intensity During a Mesoscale Convective Event. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 123, 424–442. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026535
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Cody H. Pham, Jason M. Tallant, J. Jordan Price, and David N. Karowe
- Description:
- Anthropogenic climate change will dramatically alter species distributions. The rate and magnitude of range shifts, however, will differ among taxa, resulting in altered patterns of co-occurrence and interspecific interactions. We examined potential climate-mediated breeding range shifts among North American wood-warblers (Parulidae), a speciose avian family likely to be especially impacted by such changes. We used publicly available species distribution model (SDM) range outputs to compare current ranges and patterns of sympatry among warbler species to future ranges and sympatry under 1.5 °C, 2.0 °C, and 3.0 °C of average global warming. We used these outputs to calculate average breeding range area, range overlap among species, number of sympatric species, and distances of breeding range shifts. We additionally calculated the number gained and lost sympatric interactions under each warming scenario.
- Keyword:
- wood-warbler, University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), climate change, interspecific, range shift, species distribution models, sympatric, and student-friendly
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Johnson, JE and Molnar, PH
- Description:
- This IF compilation was assembled from the existing literature to understand if preservation biases affected the record of iron formations.
- Keyword:
- Archean ocean chemistry, temporal record of iron formations, and early Earth iron cycle
- Citation to related publication:
- Johnson, J. E., & Molnar, P. H. ( 2019). Widespread and persistent deposition of iron formations for two billion years. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 3327– 3339. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL081970
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- This repository contains both the data and python3 code that reads this data and reproduces the relevant figures. The code depends on NumPy >1.17 and matplotlib >3.1 and was tested on python 3.8
- Keyword:
- locomotion, slipping, low Reynolds number, walking, and slithering
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Sun, Hu, Ren, Jiaen, Chen, Yang, Zou, Shasha, Chang, Yurui, Wang, Zihan, and Coster, Anthea
- Description:
- Our research focuses on providing a fully-imputed map of the worldwide total electron content with high resolution and spatial-temporal smoothness. We fill in the missing values of the original Madrigal TEC maps via estimating the latent feature of each latitude and local time along the 2-D grid and give initial guess of the missing regions based on pre-computed spherical harmonics map. The resulting TEC map has high imputation accuracy and the ease of reproducing. All data are in HDF5 format and are easy to read using the h5py package in Python. The TEC map is grouped in folders based on years and each file contains a single-day data of 5-min cadence. Each individual TEC map is of size 181*361. and WARNING: 2023-12-01 the data file for 2019-Jan-03 has badly fitted values. Please avoid using it. All other days' files are ready to use.
- Keyword:
- Total Electron Content, Matrix Completion, VISTA, Spherical Harmonics, and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing
- Citation to related publication:
- Sun, H., Hua, Z., Ren, J., Zou, S., Sun, Y., & Chen, Y. (2022). Matrix completion methods for the total electron content video reconstruction. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 16(3), 1333-1358., Sun, H., Chen, Y., Zou, S., Ren, J., Chang, Y., Wang, Z., & Coster, A. (2023). Complete Global Total Electron Content Map Dataset based on a Video Imputation Algorithm VISTA. Scientific Data, in press., and Zou, S., Ren, J., Wang, Z., Sun, H., & Chen, Y. (2021). Impact of storm-enhanced density (SED) on ion upflow fluxes during geomagnetic storm. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 8, 746429.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Sun, Hu, Ren, Jiaen, Chen, Yang, and Zou, Shasha
- Description:
- Our research focuses on providing a fully-imputed map of the worldwide total electron content with high resolution and spatial-temporal smoothness. We fill in the missing values of the original Madrigal TEC maps via estimating the latent feature of each latitude and local time along the 2-D grid and give initial guess of the missing regions based on pre-computed spherical harmonics map. The resulting TEC map has high imputation accuracy and the ease of reproducing. and All data are in HDF5 format and are easy to read using the h5py package in Python. The TEC map is grouped in folders based on years and each file contains a single-day data of 5-min cadence. Each individual TEC map is of size 181*361.
- Keyword:
- Total Electron Content, Matrix Completion, VISTA, Spherical Harmonics, and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing
- Citation to related publication:
- Sun, H., Hua, Z., Ren, J., Zou, S., Sun, Y., & Chen, Y. (2020). Matrix Completion Methods for the Total Electron Content Video Reconstruction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01618. and Zou, S., Ren, J., Wang, Z., Sun, H., & Chen, Y. (2021). Impact of Storm-Enhanced Density (SED) on Ion Upflow Fluxes During Geomagnetic Storm. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 162.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Walsh, Lisa L
- Description:
- Stable isotope values of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) from Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) guard hairs were analyzed to evaluate the ecology and winter adaptations in opossums by Dr. Lisa L. Walsh as part of her Ph.D. thesis in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department. The collection of stable isotope data took place from 2017 to 2019. Guard hair was processed at the University of Michigan and analyzed by the University of New Mexico Center for Stable Isotopes (UNM-CSI, USA). Captive and wild opossums were evaluated for evidence of biannual or incomplete biannual molting, a mammalian adaptation to harsh winters. Results suggest opossums do not exhibit either winter molting strategy and that guard hairs capture the opossum’s lifetime diet (Walsh and Tucker 2021). The stable isotope values were used to test the hypothesis that a Type A generalist’s niche is positively correlated with habitat heterogeneity and to evaluate which climate variables best explained isotope values. There was a positive correlation between isotopic niche size and habitat-diversity indexes (Walsh and Tucker 2020). The δ13C values from opossums in the Midwest and Northeast to test whether opossums rely on anthropogenic trash to survive extreme winters. There was no significant relationship between δ13C and winter variables, but there was a significant increase in variance of Midwest opossums’ δ13C after the 1970 corn agricultural boom (Walsh and Tucker 2023).
- Keyword:
- stable isotope, Virginia opossum, mesopredator, ecology, and mammal
- Citation to related publication:
- Walsh, L.L. and P.K. Tucker. 2020. Habitat heterogeneity is correlated with isotopic niche breadth across the range of a mammalian generalist mesopredator. Ecosphere, 11(12): e03314. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3314, Walsh, L.L. and P.K. Tucker. 2021. Stable isotope values suggest opossums (Didelphis virginiana) at their northern edge do not seasonally molt. Northeastern Naturalist, 28(1): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1656/045.028.0101, and Walsh, L.L., and P.K. Tucker. 2023. Evaluating anthropogenic influence on a mesopredator: Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) isotope values influenced by corn agriculture more than urbanization. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 101: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2021-0172.
- Discipline:
- Science
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Video data of predation and parasitism by arthropods on small vertebrates in lowland Peruvian Amazon
- Creator:
- Grundler, Michael C, Grundler, Maggie G, and Herrera, V.
- Description:
- Nighttime and diurnal surveys in the lowland Peruvian Amazon of Los Amigos Biological Station were conducted in order to describe herpetological diversity at this site. As a result of these surveys, the predation event between a Pamphobeteus sp. and Marmosops sp. and the myiasis of Ranitomeye uakarii were observed. The video footage was recorded in order to document these interesting interactions between arthropod predators and parasites and vertebrate prey and hosts, and are included for publication in the short communication "Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest" in the journal Amphibian and Reptile Conservation.
- Keyword:
- Amazonia, predator-prey, spiders, opposums, frogs, and myiasis
- Citation to related publication:
- von May R, Biggi E, Cárdenas H, Diaz MI, Alarcón C, Herrera V, Santa-Cruz R, Tomasinelli F, Westeen E, Sánchez-Paredes CM, Larson JG, Title PO, Grundler MR, Grundler MC, Davis Rabosky AR, Rabosky DL (2019) Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 13(1): 65–77. http://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/pdfs/Volume/Vol_13_no_1/ARC_13_1_[General_Section]_65-77_e169_high_res.pdf
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Bougher, S. W. and Parkinson, C. D.
- Description:
- Understanding the state and composition of an exoplanetary atmosphere depends upon several parameters such as heating, cooling, mixing and reactions between constituent chemical species. Only a few types of atmospheric species can be detected remotely spectroscopically and only if their abundance is large enough to be detectable. In this initial study, we model the atmosphere of a Venus-like planet orbiting the M-type star GJ 436 to determine the global neutral temperature structure, winds, and energy balance as the radial distance of the planet from the star decreases.
- Keyword:
- Venus-like exoplanet, upper atmospheres , and heat balances
- Citation to related publication:
- C. D. Parkinson, S. W. Bougher, F. P. Mills, R. Hu, G. Gronoff, J. Li, A. Brecht, D. Adams, and Y. L. Yung. Venus as an Exoplanet: I. An Initial Exploration of the 3-D Energy Balance for a CO2 Exoplanetary Atmosphere Around an M-Dwarf Star, J. Geophysical Research, X, (2022). doi:....
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Ma, Sicong and Keane, Sarah
- Description:
- These files are the original data for the publication of 'Use of steric blocking antisense oligonucleotides for the targeted inhibition of junction containing precursor microRNAs': https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.08.588531. This dataset contains the original gel image files for the processing assay results, luciferase data readout, and the original data file for qPCR results reported in the publication.
- Citation to related publication:
- Use of steric blocking antisense oligonucleotides for the targeted inhibition of junction containing precursor microRNAs Sicong Ma, Samantha A. Howden, Sarah C. Keane bioRxiv 2024.04.08.588531; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.08.588531
- Discipline:
- Science
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University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
User Collection- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- Description:
- The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ) is the center for the study of animal diversity on campus, focusing on the evolutionary origins of the planet’s animal species, the genetic information they contain and the communities and ecosystems they help form. Now an integral part of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB), the UMMZ houses world-class collections, containing more than 15 million specimens, span almost 200 years of regional and global biodiversity studies and that support a multi-faceted Departmental research and teaching program.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Engel, Daniel D. , Evans, Mary Anne, Low, Bobbi S., and Schaeffer, Jeff
- Description:
- This dataset was compiled as an attempt to understand how natural resource managers and research ecologists in the Great Lakes region integrate the ecosystem services (ES) paradigm into their work. The following text is the adapted abstract from a thesis associated with this data. Ecosystem services, or the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, have gained much momentum in natural resource management in recent decades as a relatively comprehensive approach to provide quantitative tools for improving decision-making and policy design. However, to date we know little about whether and how natural resource practitioners, from natural resource managers to research ecologists (hereafter managers and ecologists respectively), have adopted the ES paradigm into their respective work. Here, we addressed this knowledge gap by asking managers and ecologists about whether and how they have adopted the ES paradigm into their respective work. First, we surveyed federal, state, provincial and tribal managers in the Great Lakes region about their perception and use of ES as well as the relevance of specific services to their work. Although results indicate that fewer than 31% of the managers said they currently consider economic values of ES, 79% of managers said they would use economic information on ES if they had access to it. Additionally, managers reported that ES-related information was generally inadequate for their resource management needs. We also assessed managers by dividing them into identifiable groups (e.g. managers working in different types of government agencies or administrative levels) to evaluate differential ES integration. Overall, results suggest a desire among managers to transition from considering ES concepts in their management practices to quantifying economic metrics, indicating a need for practical and accessible valuation techniques. Due to a sample of opportunity at the USGS Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC), we also evaluated GLSC research ecologists’ integration of the ES paradigm because they play an important role by contributing requisite ecological knowledge for ES models. Managers and ecologists almost unanimously agreed that it was appropriate to consider ES in resource management and also showed convergence on the high priority ES. However, ecologists appeared to overestimate the adequacy of ES-related information they provide as managers reported the information was inadequate for their needs. This divergence may reflect an underrepresentation of ecological economists in this system who can aid in translating ecological models into estimates of human well-being. As a note, the dataset for the research ecologists has had some data removed as it could be considered personally identifiable information due to the small sample size in that population. The surveys associated with both datasets have also been included in PDF format. Curation Notes: Three files were added to the data set on Dec 21, 2017. Two csv files: "Ecosystem services and Research Ecologists - Data Index.csv" and "Ecosystem services and Research Managers - Data Index.csv" and one text file: "Ecosystem Services Adoption Readme.txt". The file names of the original four files were altered to replace an ampersand with the word "and".
- Keyword:
- Research Ecologist, Decision-Making, Ecosystem Services, Natural Resource Management, Paradigm Adoption, and Ecological Economics
- Citation to related publication:
- Engel, D.D., Evans, M.A., Low, B.S., Schaeffer, J. (2017) “Understanding Ecosystem Services Adoption by Natural Resource Managers and Research Ecologists.” Journal of Great Lakes Research, 43(3), 169-179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2017.01.005
- Discipline:
- Science and Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- Song, Siliang and Zhang, Jianzhi
- Description:
- Fitness landscapes map genotypes to their corresponding fitness under given environments and allow explaining and predicting evolutionary trajectories. Of particular interest is the landscape ruggedness or the unevenness of the landscape, because it impacts many aspects of evolution such as the likelihood that a population is trapped in a local fitness peak. Although the ruggedness has been inferred from a number of empirically mapped fitness landscapes, it is unclear to what extent this inference is affected by fitness estimation error, which is inevitable in the experimental determination of fitness landscapes. Here we address this question by simulating fitness landscapes under various theoretical models, with or without fitness estimation error. We find that all eight examined measures of landscape ruggedness are overestimated due to imprecise fitness quantification, but different measures are affected to different degrees. We devise a method to use replicate fitness measures to correct this bias and show that our method performs well under realistic conditions. We conclude that previously reported fitness landscape ruggedness is likely upward biased owing to the negligence of fitness estimation error and advise that future fitness landscape mapping should include at least three biological replicates to permit an unbiased inference of the ruggedness.
- Keyword:
- adaptation, estimation error, evolution, NK model, Rough Mount Fuji model, and polynomial model
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Al Shidi, Qusai. and Pulkkinen, Tuija.
- Description:
- This is part of the simulation set of geomagnetic storms from 2010 to 2019. The Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) with the configuration of SWPC v2 was used. The output files can be read by the visualization scripts included in the SWMF or the SpacePy Python package.
- Keyword:
- space weather, space physics, geomagnetic storms, and magnetosphere
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Towne, Aaron S. and Brès, Guillaume
- Description:
- This dataset contains data from a large eddy simulation of a turbulent jet at Mach number 0.9. The dataset contains 10000 time-resolved snapshots of three-dimensional velocity, density, and pressure fields spanning 2000 acoustic time units and also includes pre-processed azimuthal Fourier modes for each snapshot and the mean flow. All data are stored within hdf5 files, and a Matlab script showing how the data can be read and manipulated is provided. Please see the ‘jet_README.pdf’ file for more information. We recommend using the ‘jet_example.zip’ file as an entry point to the dataset. and The dataset is part of “A database for reduced-complexity modeling of fluid flows” (see references below) and is intended to aid in the conception, training, demonstration, evaluation, and comparison of reduced-complexity models for fluid mechanics. The paper introduces the flow setup and computational methods, describes the available data, and provides two examples of how these data can be used for reduced-complexity modeling. Users of these data should cite the two papers listed below.
- Keyword:
- fluid mechanics, jets, and turbulence
- Citation to related publication:
- Towne, A., Dawson, S., Brès, G. A., Lozano-Durán, A., Saxton-Fox, T., Parthasarthy, A., Biler, H., Jones, A. R., Yeh, C.-A., Patel, H., Taira, K. (2022). A database for reduced-complexity modeling of fluid flows. AIAA Journal 61(7): 2867-2892. and Brès, G. A., Jordan, P., Jaunet, V., Le Rallic, M., Cavalieri, A. V. G., Towne, A., Lele, S. K., Colonius, T., Schmidt, O. T. (2018) Importance of the nozzle-exit boundary-layer state in subsonic turbulent jets. J. Fluid Mech., 851:83–124.
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Towne, Aaron, Saxton-Fox, Theresa, and Parthasarthy, Aadhy
- Description:
- This dataset contains experimental measurements of a zero-pressure-gradient flat-plate boundary layer at five different Reynolds numbers collected using particle image velocimetry. For each Reynolds number, the dataset contains approximately 6000 snapshots of planar velocity fields as well as raw particle image pairs. All data are stored within hdf5 files, and a Matlab script showing how the data can be read and manipulated is provided. Please see the ‘BLexp_README.pdf’ file for more information. We recommend using the ‘BLexp_example.zip’ file as an entry point to the dataset. and The dataset is part of “A database for reduced-complexity modeling of fluid flows” (see references below) and is intended to aid in the conception, training, demonstration, evaluation, and comparison of reduced-complexity models for fluid mechanics. The paper introduces the flow setup and computational methods, describes the available data, and provides an example of how these data can be used for reduced-complexity modeling. Users of these data should cite the papers listed below.
- Keyword:
- fluid mechanics
- Citation to related publication:
- Towne, A., Dawson, S., Brès, G. A., Lozano-Durán, A., Saxton-Fox, T., Parthasarthy, A., Biler, H., Jones, A. R., Yeh, C.-A., Patel, H., Taira, K. (2022). A database for reduced-complexity modeling of fluid flows. AIAA Journal 61(7): 2867-2892.
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science