Data package supporting manuscript "Widespread Heterogeneity in Density-Dependent Mortality of Nearshore Fishes"

This repository contains the complete data synthesis and analysis
pipeline for a global meta-analysis on density-dependent mortality
in reef fishes. We estimated mortality parameters (α and β) from
>30 ecological studies and explored how ecological traits,
experimental methods, and phylogenetic history explain variation
in density dependence. It comprises five data tables and the
zipped code folder to ensure transparent, end-to-end
reproducibility of data processing, analysis, and visualization.
This package supports the manuscript “Widespread Heterogeneity in
Density-Dependent Mortality of Nearshore Fishes” by Stier &
Osenberg (Ecology Letters).