Effects of ecology on the sociality of coral dwelling gobies, genus Gobiodon

Froehlich, Catheline1 ; Heatwole, Siobhan1 ; Klanten, O. Selma2 ; Hing, Martin1 ; Hildebrandt, Courtney1 ; Smith, Jemma1 ; Wong, Marian1

Published May 03, 2024 on Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mcvdnck7m

Data files

May 03, 2024 version files 686.95 KB

GobyTag-LI2020-DryadUpload.csv

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GobyTagLI_Marty20146_GobyLengthTissueSamples_2014_Dryadupload.csv

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GobyTagOTIData-JF2019_v2_ocuTOfusc_Dryadupload.csv

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GobyTagPNGData-2018_Dryadupload.csv

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GobyTransect-GS-CS_All_Data_transect_ID_-_goby_ID_checked_Marty_LI_2014_Dryadupload.csv

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GobyTransects-LI2020_v5_GS_Dryadupload.csv

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GobyTransects-LI2022_v3_round2_Dryadupload.csv

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GobyTransects-OTI2022_v3_Dryadupload.csv

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README.md

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Abstract

We developed a framework to assess how ecological factors affected the sociality of animals, and we used coral dwelling gobies (genus Gobiodon) to model this framework. We identifed four categories of sociality to compare: form of sociality, degree of sociality, social plasticity, and hierarchy maintenance. We tested global and local ecological factors from climatic disturbances to habitat size, and assessed how they affected the different categories of sociality. We combined the findings of each category to determine to outlook of social maintenance in the taxa when considering the ecological factors tested. For coral dwelling gobies, we found that there is a very poor outlook for their social maintenance with respect to climatic disturbances.

README: Effects of ecology on the sociality of coral dwelling gobies, genus Gobiodon

https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.mcvdnck7m

Brief summary of dataset contents:

-transect datasets from the different locations and the different years:

Each file has the transect ID, date, location, coordinates, species encountered, number of species encountered from gobies and corals, size of corals, extra notes. Each column has a different variable collected from each transect (as a row).

GobyTransects-GS-CS_AllData_transect_ID_goby_ID_checked_Marty_LI_2014_Dryadupload.csv

GobyTransects_LI2020_v5_GS_Dryadupload.csv

GobyTransects-LI2022_v3_round2_Dryadupload.csv

GobyTransects-OTI2022_v3_Dryadupload.csv

VARIABLE	DEFINITION	UNIT
Lat	latitude	decimal degrees
Long	longitude	decimal degrees
Depth	depth at which the data was collected	meters
GPS coordinate available - Y or N	if have GPS coordinates	y/n
Date	date	day/month/year
Year	year	year
Dataset	month-year of survey	month-year
Transect	type of transect used, either 30m line transect, or cross transect (4m)	n/a
Cyclone	taken prior to the cyclones	n/a
Site or Reef	site within the greater field location	n/a
Site_NoSpace	site without spaces in the name	n/a
SiteReclassed	more detailed site name given	n/a
CompassHeading	direction that transect was layed out	n/a
TransectNum or Transect# or OrderTransectNumber	transect number	n/a
TransectID	id of transect with number included	n/a
YrTransectID	id of transect with year and month and day	n/a
Transect_ID_Marty	initial ID of transect with month day	n/a
PicsTransect	picture numbers of photographs of the area around the transect	picture numbers
StartWayPoint	waypoint on GPS made at the start of the transect	waypoint number
StopWayPoint	waypoint on GPS made at the end of the transect	waypoint number
Tag or coral tag	tag number given to coral sampled	n/a
Surveyor	person who collected the data on transect	initials of person
Coral spp	species of coral from Acropora	n/a
x coral size (cm)	horizontal measure of coral length	cm
y coral size (cm)	perpendicular measure horizontally from x coral size measure of coral length	cm
z coral size (cm)	vertical measure of coral size from the base of the coral to the tips of coral	cm
Avg Diam or Coral average diameter (cm)	average diameter of coral on perpendicular horizontal measures of coral kength and vertical measure of coral length	cm
Goby spp	species of goby observed	n/a
Color Morph	whether goby is paler than the rest of the species or has the vibrant colors associated normally with the species	pale or not pale
GS	group size of gobies, not including juveniles	n/a
Popn or Group size	group size of gobies including juveniles	n/a
GS>2	groups that have more than 2 adults	n/a
Juveniles or JuvenileNum	number of juveniles in group	n/a
juvenile?	if a juvenile was present in the group of gobies	n/a
mixed?	if there were at least two different species living in a coral together	y/n
Photo#	picture numbers of photographs of the coral	picture numbers
Coral Health	classification of coral health based on Coral Health chart	n/a
coralvideopic#	video of coral taken	video number
non-breeders	number of nonbreeding adults/juveniles in group	n/a
CoralGPS	gps waypoint number of coral	n/a
Notes	additional notes related to data	n/a
GS+Juv	number of adults and juveniles together	n/a

-datasets of fish collected for size measurement from different locations:

Each file has the location, date, coordinates, species encountered, number of species encountered of gobies and corals, size of corals, size of gobies caught, sex of gobies, extra notes. Each column was a variable collected for each fish collected (as a row).

GobyTagLI_Marty20146_GobyLengthTissueSamples_2014_Dryadupload.csv

GobyTag-LI2020-DryadUpload.csv

GobyTagPNGData-2018_Dryadupload.csv

GobyTagOTIData-JF2019_v2_ocuTOfusc_Dryadupload.csv

VARIABLE	DEFINITION	UNIT
Date	date	day/month/year
Lat or Latitude	latitude	decimal degrees
Long or Longitude	longitude	decimal degrees
Depth	depth at which the data was collected	meters
Site or Reef	site within the greater field location	n/a
CoralTag-metal	tag number given to coral sampled	n/a
Waypoint	number of gps waypoint for the coral	n/a
Transect No.	transect number	n/a
TransectID	id of transect with number included	n/a
heading	direction that transect was layed out	degree number correlated to direction
Coral spp	species of coral from Acropora	n/a
x (cm)	horizontal measure of coral length	cm
y (cm)	perpendicular measure horizontally from x coral size measure of coral length	cm
z (cm)	vertical measure of coral size from the base of the coral to the tips of coral	cm
Avg Diam or Coral Avg Diameter (cm)	average diameter of coral on perpendicular horizontal measures of coral kength and vertical measure of coral length	cm
Group Size with juveniles	group size of gobies including juveniles within the one species of goby collected	n/a
GS - no juveniles	group size of gobies, not including juveniles	n/a
Group Size	group size of gobies within the one species of goby collected	n/a
PopN(all species)	group size of all individuals with a coral even if from other species	n/a
JuvenilesOnly	number of juveniles in group	n/a
mixedspeciesgrp	if there were at least two different species living in a coral together	y/n
Goby spp	species of goby observed	n/a
SL or Standard Length(mm)	standard length of goby collected	mm
TL	total length of goby collected	mm
Fin Tube	tube number in which fin clip was put	n/a
body tube	tube number in which the body was put	n/a
Notes	additional notes related to data	n/a
CameraUsed	camera used for pictures	n/a
CoralPhoto#	number of photographs of corals	picture numbers
GobyPhoto#	number of photographs of gobies	picture numbers
# DNA Samples per coral	number of DNA samples collected from fish	n/a
fin clip	if a fin clip was collected from fish	y/n
DNA Tube	tube number of DNA sample	n/a
Side-Elastomer	side on the fish in which the tag was placed	n/a
Color-Elastomer	color of tag in fish	n/a
Position-Elastomer	if tag was placed at front, center or back of the dorsal fin	n/a
IfElastomer	if the fish had a tag placed in it	y/n
dead alive	if fish was dead or alive from collected	n/a
Gender	gender of the fish collected	n/a
Fish Color Shade	whether goby is paler than the rest of the species or has the vibrant colors associated normally with the species	pale or not pale
Spp	species of goby collected	n/a
pics	if pictures were taken for any other projects	n/a
bleached?	if the coral was bleached or not upon observation	n/a
Coral ID	ID number of coral collected from	n/a

-R code for data analysis: annotated R markdown file that includes all analyses together. Run on Rstudio:

GobyReefSysComp_AllAnalysesCompiled_v5_DryadUpload.Rmd

Description of the data and file structure

The datasets have clearly defined columns to identify the type of data collected everytime gobies or corals hosting gobies were encountered. For transect datasets, empty corals were also measured. For transect datasets (with 'GobyTransect' in the file name), each row represents a different coral encountered with all the information concerning the location, coral, and gobies encountered in that coral. For fish collection datasets (with 'GobyTag' in the file name), each row represents a different fish that was collected. For the R code, it is in an Rstudio markdown file. The data files that were used in data analysis have been truncated from the datasets on this Dryad upload to filter specifically what was to be compared for each analysis within the code.

Code/Software

As listed above, the R code used for data analysis is also within this dataset.

Methods

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Citation

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Funding

Sea World Reef Research and Rescue Foundation
University of Wollongong, Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions
Hermon Slade Foundation
Australian Museum, Zoltan Florian Marine Biology Fellowship as part of the Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowship
University of Wollongong, University Postgraduate Award
University of Wollongong, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health
University of Wollongong, Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship