The Diversity of Keystones Supplementary Material

THIS DATA PACKAGE ACCOMPANIES: The Diversity of Animals Identified as Keystone Species, I. Shukla, K.M. Gaynor, B. Worm, C.T Darimont

This data package contains the original dataset as well as R code used to generate figures and analysis.

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Shukla et al. README.txt -- This file, including a description of variables.

Diversity_of_keystones_suppList.csv -- A data file that includes the full list of author-identified keystone species

Diversity_of_keystones_index.csv -- A data file of each of the keystone traits indexed for a k-means clustering analysis

Keystone_diversity_code.R -- supplementary code of the descriptive statisics, k-means clustering analysis, and vizualization for keystone trait diversity

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VARIABLE NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS

FILE: Diversity of Keystones_suppList.csv

Latin name: Indicates species scientific name

Common name: Species common name

Order: Species Taxonomic Order

Title: Title of the publication from which the species was sourced

Authors: Condensed citation of the lead author(s)

Year: Year that the article was published

Journal: Journal that the article was published in. NA indicates a book

Community Response: The category of significant community change caused by keystone absence/ decreased presence

Additional community response: Additional community change indicated by the authors

Justification for keystoneness: Method that the authors used to justify a species keystone status

Detailed justification: subcategory of "Justification for keystoneness"

FILE: Diversity_of_keystones_index.csv

id: Indicates an individual data point

common_name: Species common name

class: Species taxonomic class. "1" <- "fish", "2" <- "herp", "3" <- "bird", "4" <- "mammal", "5" <- "arthropod", "6" <- "echinoderm", "7" <- "mollusc"

role: Functional role that the keystone species performs. "1" <- "consumer", "2" <- "prey", "3" <- "modifier"

trophic_simp: Simplified keystone species trophic level. "1" <- "low", "2" <- "mid", "3" <- "high"

log_mass <- Species average body mass, logged

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This database was compiled by IS using published literature. IS was funded by a Raincoast Conservation Fellowship, and CTD by NSERC Discovery Grant 435683.