Peer-reviewed papers included in topic model of old animal ecology and conservation

Earth’s old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and ecosystem processes and services. Often the largest and most experienced, old individuals are most valued by humans and make important contributions to reproduction, information acquisition and cultural transmission, trophic dynamics, and resistance and resilience to natural and anthropogenic disturbance. These observations contrast with the senescence-focused paradigm of old age that has dominated the literature for over a century yet are consistent with findings from behavioral ecology and life-history theory. Here, we review why the global loss of old individuals can be particularly detrimental to long-lived animals with indeterminate growth, increasing reproductive output with age, and those dependent on migration, sociality and cultural transmission for survival. Longevity conservation is needed to protect t..., See Supplementary Methods in Science paper, , # Peer-reviewed papers included in topic model of old animal ecology and conservation

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb2r](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.83bk3jb2r)

## Description of the data and file structure

Our narrative synthesis was supplemented with references and guided by literature drawn from text-mining and topic modelling of 9,856 peer-reviewed papers. We searched the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science titles containing the following word combination:

(“older” OR “aging” OR “ageing” OR “growing old” OR “longevity” OR “lifespan” OR “old-growth”) AND (\"vertebrates\" OR “animals” OR “fish*” OR “mammals” OR “reptiles” OR “birds” OR “frogs” OR “crustaceans” OR “mollusks” OR “sponges” or “coral” or “invertebrates” OR “insects”) AND (“ecology” OR “life-histor*” OR “pace-of-life”  OR “behav*” OR “reproduct*” OR “knowledge” OR “cultural transmission” OR “food web” OR “diet” OR “climate change” OR “global change” OR “resilience” OR “physiology” OR “conservation” OR “fisheries” ...