This Mat_changes_Readme.rtf file was generated on 2021-09-30 by Katja H Kochvar

GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of Manuscript: Maturational changes in song sparrow song

2. Author Information
	A. Principle Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Katja H Kochvar
		Institution: Memorial University of Newfoundland
		Email: khkochvar@mun.ca

3. Data of data collection: April-June of 2014, 2015, and 2016

4. Geographic location of data collection: 
	A. Study subject collection: Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA
	B. Subject rearing and recording: Durham County, North Carolina, USA

5. Funding source: NSF grant IOS-1144991

SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CCO (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

2. Recommended citation for this dataset: Kochvar, K. H., Peters, S., Zipple, M. N., Nowicki, S. (2021). Data from: Maturational changes in song sparrow song. Duke Research Data Repository. 

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List:

song_sparrow.csv: data on all song characteristics analysed for study subjects in 2014, 2015, and 2016; used for creation of Table 1, Figure 1, and Figure 2

mat_changes_code.R: R script to produce results in Table 1, Figure 1, and Figure 2, as well as the LDA analysis 

METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data can be found in the original manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.02872

2. Instrument- or software-specific information need to interpret the data: R 3.6.3

3. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis, and/or submission:

Katja H. Kochvar 1
Susan Peters 1
Matthew N. Zipple 1
Stephen Nowicki 1

1 Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA