Frequent grazing can establish high forage value grazing lawns supporting high grazer densities, but can also produce overgrazed grass communities with unpalatable or low grass basal cover, supporting few grazers. Attempts to create grazing lawns via concentrated grazing, with a goal to increase grazer numbers, are thus risky without knowing how environmental conditions influence the likelihood of each outcome. We collected grass species and trait data from 33 frequently grazed grass communities across eastern South...

Dataset from the STAX Study, which investigated the acceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents from a fixed youth centre health service and a mobile healthcare service.
This dataset provides data from enrolment, STI testing, and the acceptability questionnaire that is specific to participants who were recruited from the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation Mobile Service.

Additional file 1. An Excel® spreadsheet file containing all three data tables that were collected and analysed in this study, anonymized by removing all variables containing information that could be used to identify individuals, households or their houses.

This data set is corresponding to the Miyamoto, T. et al. “Characteristics of Seismogenic Fault Rock Related to the 2014 Orkney Earthquake (M5.5) Beneath the Moab Khotsong Gold Mine, South Africa” Geophysical Research Letters, 2022. This data set shows physical property, magnetic susceptibility, mineral assemblage, and element composition of all Hole B subsamples, and frictional properties of 5 Hole B subsamples.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a maternal metabolic disorder that perturbs placental development and increases the risk of offspring short- and long-term metabolic disorders. The mechanisms by which GDM impairs placental development remain poorly understood. Here, we defined the DNA methylome of GDM placentas and determined whether GDM perturbs methylation at genes important for placental development. We conducted an epigenome-wide association study of 42 placentas from pregnancies in the South African Soweto First 1000 days...

Dataset from the STAX Study, which investigated the acceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents from a fixed youth centre health service and a mobile healthcare service.
This dataset provides data from enrolment, STI testing, and the acceptability questionnaire that is specific to participants who were recruited from the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation Mobile Service.

Aim: To understand how communities of adult and juvenile (seedlings and saplings) woody plants were impacted by fire and the 2014 – 2016 El Niño drought in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Methods: We used a landscape scale fire experiment spanning 2013-2019 in a semi-arid savanna in the central west of Kruger National Park (mean annual precipitation, 543 mm). Adult and juvenile woody species composition were recorded during and after the drought in 40 plots...

Modeling fire spread as an infection process is intuitive: an ignition lights a patch of fuel, which infects its neighbor, and so on. Infection models produce non-linear thresholds, whereby fire spreads only when fuel connectivity and infection probability are sufficiently high. These thresholds are fundamental both to managing fire and to theoretical models of fire spread, whereas applied fire models more often apply quasi-empirical approaches. Here, we resolve this tension by quantifying thresholds in fire...

Background: Early antenatal care is critical for the mother and newborn’s health. Antenatal care is often delayed in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study aims to examine the trends and determinants of late antenatal care initiation in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania from 2007 to 2016. Methods: The study employed Demographic Health Surveys data of reproductive-age women seeking antenatal care in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2007-2013/14), Kenya (2008-2014), and Tanzania (2010-2015/16). Bivariate and...

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a maternal metabolic disorder that perturbs placental development and increases the risk of offspring short- and long-term metabolic disorders. The mechanisms by which GDM impairs placental development remain poorly understood. Here, we defined the DNA methylome of GDM placentas and determined whether GDM perturbs methylation at genes important for placental development. We conducted an epigenome-wide association study of 42 placentas from pregnancies in the South African Soweto First 1000 days...

Dataset from the STAX Study, which investigated the acceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents from a youth centre health facility and an adolescent mobile health service.
This dataset looks at enrollment data, STI testing data, and acceptability feedback from participants recruited from the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation Youth Centre.

Experiments have begun demonstrating that the fear (antipredator responses) large carnivores inspire in ungulates can shape ecosystem structure and function. Most such experiments have focused on the impacts of either just one large carnivore, or all as a whole, rather than the different impacts different large carnivores may have in intact multi-predator-prey systems. Experimentally testing the relative fearfulness ungulates demonstrate toward different large carnivores is a necessary first step in addressing these likely differing impacts....

Dataset from the STAX Study, which investigated the acceptability, feasibility and cost of point of care testing for sexually transmitted infections among South African adolescents from a youth centre health facility and an adolescent mobile health service.
This dataset looks at enrollment data, STI testing data, and acceptability feedback from participants recruited from the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation Youth Centre.

This is raw data for a study done in Lusaka, Zambia at two tertiary centres that were the main referral centres for maternal Covid-19 infection. Data was collected between March to July 2021.

It is generally believed that marsupials are more primitive mammals than placentals and mainly solitary living, representing the ancestral form of social organization of all mammals. However, field studies have observed pair- and group-living in marsupial species, but no comparative study about their social evolution was ever done. Here we describe the results of primary literature research on marsupial social organization which indicate that most species can live in pairs or groups and many show...

Additional file 1. An Excel® spreadsheet file containing all three data tables that were collected and analysed in this study, anonymized by removing all variables containing information that could be used to identify individuals, households or their houses.

This is raw data for a study done in Lusaka, Zambia at two tertiary centres that were the main referral centres for maternal Covid-19 infection. Data was collected between March to July 2021.