Data package supporting manuscript "Widespread Heterogeneity in Density-Dependent Mortality of Nearshore Fishes"

This repository contains the complete data synthesis and analysis pipeline for a global meta-analysis on density-dependent mortality in reef fishes. We estimated mortality parameters (α and β) from >30 ecological studies and explored how ecological traits, experimental methods, and phylogenetic history explain variation in density dependence. It comprises eight data tables in csv format, three .tre files for phylogenetic trees (see method document for data sources), and the zipped code folder (including 12 R scripts) to ensure transparent, end-to-end reproducibility of data processing, analysis, and visualization. This package supports the manuscript “Widespread Heterogeneity in Density-Dependent Mortality of Nearshore Fishes” by Stier & Osenberg (Ecology Letters).