Social data from "Ecology, The Economy of Nature" (10th edition, 2025): Addressing diversity in undergraduate ecology textbooks"

This data package includes social data on the diversity and composition of people depicted in the text, photographs, and illustrations of the ecology textbook Ecology: The Economy of Nature (10th ed.) by Relyea (2025). The data were utilized in an article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, which explores the use of undergraduate textbooks as tools for building a diverse community of ecologists (Richards et al., 2025). Relyea, R. (2025). Ecology: The Economy of Nature (10th ed.). W.H. Freeman. ISBN 9781319524838 Richards JH, Charton KT, McFarlane SL, Widell AF, Haddad NM, Wyer MB, Damschen EI (2025) Rethinking the undergraduate textbook as a tool to build a diverse community of ecologists. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 23(3), e2819, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2819.