Stereo-Video Camera Systems (SVCSs) are a promising tool to remotely measure body size of wild animals without the need for animal handling. Here, we assessed the accuracy of SVCSs for measuring straight carapace length (SCL) of sea turtles. To achieve this, we hand captured and measured 63 juvenile, sub-adult, and adult sea turtles across three species, greens, Chelonia mydas (n = 52), loggerheads, Caretta caretta (n = 8), and Kemp’s ridley, Lepidochelys kempii (n =...

Airlines have introduced a back-to-front boarding process in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We performed pedestrian dynamics simulation using the Constrained Linear Movement (CALM) model to simulate people boarding a 144-seat Airbus 320 airplane using different boarding procedures, including back to front. This data set contains input files, code, and output files from the simulations containing the trajectories of passengers for a parameter sweep consisting of thousands of simulations. It also contains code to perform...

Understanding the evolutionary mechanisms governing the uneven distribution of species richness across the tree of life is a great challenge in biology. Scientists have long argued that sexual conflict is a key driver of speciation. This hypothesis, however, has been highly debated in light of empirical evidence. Recent advances in the study of macroevolution make it possible to test this hypothesis with more data and increased accuracy. In the present study, we use phylogenomics combined...