Testing alternative hypotheses for the decline of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria using fish fossils time series from sediment cores

# Testing alternative hypotheses for the decline of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria using fish fossils time series from sediment cores [https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.95x69p8rp](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.95x69p8rp) ## Description of the data and file structure ### Datasets included: * **Sedimentcores_file_complete** = fossil dataset from sediment cores per cm depth assigned to multiple fish taxa * multiple columns: depth of sediment (cm), the year corresponding to the depth, the cored site, the category of the fossils (either bone or tooth), notes, and the lineage for teeth. * **sc9_acc_rates** and **sc14_acc_rates** = sediment accumulation rates from the two sites used to determine the fossil influx (concentration fossils multiplied by accumulation rates) * depth (cm) * volume units are per cubic cm (cm^3) * acc_rates are cm per year (cm/yr) ## Code/Software Our code can be found in Related Works Rstudio version 4.3.1 with packages: cowplot v 1.1.1, ggh4x 0.2.5, ggplot2 v3.4.2, tidyverse v2.0.0, scales v1.2.1, ggtext v0.1.2 and dplyr v1.1.2., segmented package v1.6-4, ggpubr v0.6.0