Phenotypic and genetic diversity data recorded in island and mainland populations worldwide

We used this dataset to assess the strength of isolation due to geographic and macroclimatic distance across island and mainland systems, comparing published measurements of phenotypic traits and neutral genetic diversity for populations of plants and animals worldwide. The dataset includes 112 studies of 108 species (72 animals and 36 plants) in 868 island populations and 760 mainland populations, with population-level taxonomic and biogeographic information, totalling 7438 records., Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
We searched the ISI Web of Science in March 2017 for comparative studies that included data on phenotypic traits and/or neutral genetic diversity of populations on true islands and on mainland sites in any taxonomic group. Search terms were 'island' and ('mainland' or 'continental') and 'population*' and ('demograph*' or 'fitness' or 'survival' or 'growth' or 'reproduc*' or 'density' or 'abundance' or 'size' or 'genetic diversity' or 'genetic structure' or 'population genetics') and ('plant*' or 'tree*' or 'shrub*or 'animal*' or 'bird*' or 'amphibian*' or 'mammal*' or 'reptile*' or 'lizard*' or 'snake*' or 'fish'), subsequently refined to the Web of Science categories 'Ecology' or 'Evolutionary Biology' or 'Zoology' or 'Genetics Heredity' or 'Biodiversity Conservation' or 'Marine Freshwater Biology' or 'Plant Sciences' or 'Geography Physical' or 'Ornithology' or 'Biochemistry Molecular Biology' or 'Multidisciplinary Science..., Data can be opened in multiple versions of Excel and R. Data encoding: UTF-8, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE , This readme file was generated on 2023-08-30 by ANNA MÁRIA CSERGŐ

GENERAL INFORMATION

Title of Dataset: Phenotypic and genetic diversity data recorded in
island and mainland populations worldwide

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC0

Links to publications that cite or use the data: DOI:
DOI [10.22541/au.167542026.68326456/v1](https://doi.org/10.22541/au.167542026.68326456/v1)

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: n/a

Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: n/a

Was data derived from another source? yes Reference details of the
papers from which we extracted the data were added to the dataset.

Recommended citation for this dataset: Csergő AM et al. 2023, Data from:
Spatial phenotypic variability is higher between
island populations than between mainland populations worldwide, Dryad, Dataset, DOI:

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

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