Honey bee waggle dance data and code to analyze foraging across Virginia landscapes as part of Bees-as-Bioindicators project

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posted on 2022-08-30, 14:10 authored by Bradley Ohlinger, Roger Schürch (rschurch@vt.edu), Mary Silliman, Taylor Steele, Margaret J Couvillon (mjc@vt.edu)

<p>This zipped folder contains the scripts and data used for the article BD Ohlinger, R Schürch, MR Silliman, TN Steele, & MJ Couvillon (2022) "Dance-communicated distances support nectar foraging as a supply-driven system", Biology Letters. Additionally, it contains a README file with descriptions of the files used for the analysis.</p>

Funding

This work was supported by the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (grant no. 549044 to M.J.C.) and by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (grant no. VA-160097 to M.J.C.).

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DOI - Is supplement to Dance-communicated distances support nectar foraging as a supply-driven system

Publisher

University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Location

Virginia, USA

Corresponding Author Name

Bradley D. Ohlinger

Corresponding Author E-mail Address

bdo@vt.edu

Files/Folders in Dataset and Description

[supply_driven_analysis.zip] - ZIP archive containing all necessary files to reproduce the analysis presented in Ohlinger, Schürch et al. (2022) [README] - README file containing descriptions of folders and files in repository [04_data] - data folder containing raw data and intermediate computational steps [calibration_data] - folder containing data for simulating dances [distance_calib_obj_Universal1000.RData] - Rdata file containing the universal calibration dataset used for dance simulation [csv] - folder containing comma-separated value files with results of statistical analyses [dance_agg_data.csv] – comma-separated values file containing point estimate locations for each simulated waggle dance [dance_data.csv] – comma-separated values file containing simulated dance locations (1000 per dance) for the full dataset [disc_18_pairs.csv] – comma-separated values file containing estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers at the Winchester site in 2018 [disc_19_pairs.csv] – comma-separated values file containing estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers at the Winchester site in 2019 [mean_diff_ft.csv] – comma-separated values file containing estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers in the full dataset [month_emm.csv] – comma-separated values file containing monthly estimated marginal mean communicated foraging distances and 95% confidence intervals for nectar and pollen foragers in the full dataset [month_pairs.csv] – comma-separated values file containing monthly estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers at the three field sites (Blacksburg, Winchester, and Tidewater) in the full dataset [site_pairs.csv] – comma-separated values file containing estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers at the three field sites (Blacksburg, Winchester and Tidewater) in the full dataset [site_pairs_18.csv] - commaseparated values file containing estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers at the three field sites (Blacksburg, Winchester and Tidewater) during the 2018 field season [site_pairs_19.csv] – comma-separated values file containing estimated marginal mean differences in communicated foraging distance and 95% confidence intervals between nectar and pollen foragers at the three field sites (Blacksburg, Winchester and Tidewater) during the 2019 field season [points] - folder containing Rdata files that consist of points that represent simulated dance locations [Allsample.blacksburg_points.RData] - Rdata file consisting of points that represent the simulated dance locations for the Blacksburg, VA field site [Allsample.tidewater_points.RData] - Rdata file consisting of points that represent the simulated dance locations for the Tidewater, VA field site [Allsample.winchester_points.RData] - Rdata file consisting of points that represent the simulated dance locations for the Winchester, VA field site [distance.blacksburg_points.RData] - Rdata file consisting of points that represent the simulated distances for the Blacksburg, VA field site [distance.tidewater_points.RData] - Rdata file consisting of points that represent the simulated distances for the Tidewater, VA field site [distance.winchester_points.RData] - Rdata file consisting of points that represent the simulated distances for the Winchester, VA field site [05_code] - folder containing R scripts for analysis and dance simulation [supply_driven_analysis.R] - R script containing the full analysis [scripts] - folder containing R scripts for system preparation and dance simulation [00_system_prep.R] - R script with code that prepares the system for analysis [01_dance_data_prep_supply_driven.R] - R script with code that formats data for analysis [03_01_simulate_dances.R] - R script with code that simulates the waggle dances [azimuth.R] - R script with code that calculates the solar azimuth for dance simulation [06_reports] - folder containing content reported in the publication [Figures] - folder containing figures reported in the publication [Figure_1.png] - figure showing estimated marginal mean communicated foraging distances and 95% confidence intervals for nectar versus pollen foragers in the full dataset [Figure_2.png] - figure showing monthly estimated marginal mean communicated foraging distances and 95% confidence intervals for nectar versus pollen foragers in full dataset