Shrestha et al_New Phytol 2013_Species and Data_read me.txt This file accompanies a comma-delimited data file, Shrestha et al_New Phytol 2013_Species and Data.csv, which contains the data used in: Shades of red: Bird-pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision Mani Shrestha(1), Adrian G. Dyer(2, 3), Skye Boyd-Gerny(1), Bob B.M. Wong(1), and Martin Burd(1, 4) 1 School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia 2 School of Media and Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 3 Department of Physiology, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia 4 National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Durham, North Carolina 27705, U.S.A. New Phytologist (2013) doi: 10.1111/nph.12135 Each data row in the CSV file contains all raw data used in the analyses reported in the article for a single species Description of data columns: 1. "Sp. No." Authors' identification number for the species 2. "APG III Family" Family name identified by Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009) Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161:105–121 3. "Genus" Genus name 4. "species" Specific epithet [Genus and species names verified through the Taxonomic Name Resolution Service v3.0 (http://tnrs.iplantcollaborative.org/TNRSapp.html)] 5. "Floral visitor class (b = bird, i = insect)" As indicated, plus the class b+i for plant species known to received visits from both 6. BLANK COLUMN 7-10. "Inflection points of reflectance spectrum (nm)" These four columns give the wavelengths in nanometers at which inflections occur in the reflectance profiles of the flowers of the corresponding species. The various species had from one to four inflections in their reflectance spectra. Inflections are approximately grouped by whether they occur at short, medium, or long wavelengths, in order to allow visual comparison among species, but location in a particular column has no special meaning. See the article for details on identification of inflections in the reflectance curves. 11. "Notes" Notes for particular species, usually indicating what floral part the reflectance spectrogram was taken from. 12. BLANK COLUMN 13-23. "Mean absolute deviations (MAD) or minimum absolute deviation (minAD) from hue-discrimination optima:" These are quantitative measures of fit between the inflection points of a reflectance spectrogram and the hue discrimination abilities of pollinator visual systems. The text of the article gives further detail of the calculation of these metrics and provides a worked example for Wahlenbergia gloriosa (Campanulaceae). 24-25. BLANK COLUMNS 26-39."Frequency data for inflection frequency histograms, by pollinator group" Frequency of inflections (in columns 7-10) in 10 nm wavelength bins (labels indicate ceiling values for the bin). These data are presented graphically in Figure 2 of the article. For further information, contact Mani Shrestha (mani.shrestha@monash.edu) or Martin Burd (martin.burd@monash.edu). [From publiction of the article until 1 September 2013, contact Martin Burd at martin.burd@nescent org or by telephone at +1-919-684-1615.]