Species Portfolio Effects Dominate Seasonal Zooplankton Stabilization Within a Large Temperate Lake

The raw data file is available online for public access (https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/lake-simcoe-monitoring). Download the 1980-2019 csv files and open up the file named "Simcoe_Zooplankton&Bythotrephes.csv". Copy and paste the zooplankton sheet into a new excel file called "Simcoe_Zooplankton.csv". The column ZDATE in the excel file needs to be switched from GENERAL to SHORT DATE so that the dates in the ZDATE column read "YYYY/MM/DD". Save as .csv in appropriate R folder. The data file "simcoe_manual_subset_weeks_5" is the raw data that has been subset for the main analysis of the article using the .R file "Simcoe MS - 5 Station Subset Data". The .csv file produced from this must then be manually edited to remove data points that do not have 5 stations per sampling period as well as by combining data points that should fall into a single week. The "simcoe_manual_subset_weeks_5.csv" is then used for the calculation of variability, stabilization, asynchrony, and Shannon Diversity for each year in the .R file "Simcoe MS - 5 Station Calculations". The final .R file "Simcoe MS - 5 Station Analysis contains the final statistical analyses as well as code to reproduce the original figures. Data and code for main and supplementary analyses are also available on GitHub (https://github.com/reillyoc/ZPseasonalPEs).