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Research Data Table 1 is a table of the georreferenced historical (literature-based) and species surveys occurrence points for Ctenomys magellanicus (Rodentia, Caviomorpha). These points are the raw data for the analyses performed in this work. Research Data Table 2 is the result of fitting 120 models (EDM) with different features combination.

Climate change has been widely recognised as one of the most urgent and growing threats to natural and cultural heritage in the twenty-first century, and the indelible impact of humanity has led to the definition of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately affected by natural and human-induced changes to the environment. Their vulnerability is exacerbated by centuries of cultural and territorial disenfranchisement within settler-colonial nations. This dissertation aims at understanding Indigenous perceptions of heritage in the face of climate change and its intersection with the impacts of settler- colonialism. It analyses how these on-the-ground perceptions can, in turn, inform heritage organisations and contribute to safeguarding the many facets of tangible and intangible Indigenous heritage for future generations in the Anthropocene. This is accomplished through a comparative, transnational case study of two communities each from the Dehcho First Nations in the Northwest Territories, Canada, and the Aymara and Quechua peoples in northern Chile. I use a multi-method approach consisting of semi-structured interviews, oral histories and participant observation. The data is complemented by environmental and heritage legislation and grey literature at multiple organisational scales for both case studies. Three lines of enquiry are explored through an applied comparative thematic analysis: i) the perceptions of climate change and associated land loss/change among Indigenous groups and how this impacts each group’s notions of challenges to its cultural identity; ii) the intersection of the effects of post- colonialism, ongoing industrial activities and climate change on the intergenerational transmission of ancestral knowledge and notions of place attachment; and iii) how international, national and regional political and sociocultural rhetoric on environmental and heritage conservation affect local, grassroots considerations for safeguarding heritage. The similarities and contrasts of the Dehcho First Nations, Aymara and Quechua experiences of climate change across the North-South divide are related from the grassroots to arrive at redefining heritage practices in the Anthropocene. The results demonstrate that decolonising heritage is not only necessary, but that this decolonisation depends on building and actively engaging in intercultural empathy through the global threat of climate change. In order to understand how Indigenous practices, places, and items are valorised—attributed value—as heritage in the face of climate change, one must empathise with the cultural loss that exists in the temporal and cognitive spaces between Indigenous individuals’ moments of nostalgic reference and today.

ABSTRACTIntraguild interactions among carnivores have long held the fascination of ecologists. Ranging from competition to facilitation and coexistence, these interactions and their complex interplay influence everything from species persistence to ecosystem functioning. Yet, the patterns and pathways of such interactions are far from understood in tropical forest systems, particularly across countries in the Global South. Here, we examined the determinants and consequences of competitive interactions between dholes Cuon alpinus and the two large felids (leopards Panthera pardus and tigers Panthera tigris) with which they most commonly co‐occur across Asia. Using a combination of traditional and novel data sources (N = 118), we integrate information from spatial, temporal, and dietary niche dimensions. These three species have faced catastrophic declines in their extent of co‐occurrence over the past century; most of their source populations are now confined to Protected Areas. Analysis of dyadic interactions between species pairs showed a clear social hierarchy. Tigers were dominant over dholes, although pack strength in dholes helped ameliorate some of these effects; leopards were subordinate to dholes. Population‐level spatio‐temporal interactions assessed at 25 locations across Asia did not show a clear pattern of overlap or avoidance between species pairs. Diet‐profile assessments indicated that wild ungulate biomass consumption by tigers was highest, while leopards consumed more primate and livestock prey as compared to their co‐predators. In terms of prey offtake (ratio of wild prey biomass consumed to biomass available), the three species together harvested 0.4–30.2% of available prey, with the highest offtake recorded from the location where the carnivores reach very high densities. When re‐examined in the context of prey availability and offtake, locations with low wild prey availability showed spatial avoidance and temporal overlap among the carnivore pairs, and locations with high wild prey availability showed spatial overlap and temporal segregation. Based on these observations, we make predictions for 40 Protected Areas in India where temporally synchronous estimates of predator and prey densities are available. We expect that low prey availability will lead to higher competition, and in extreme cases, to the complete exclusion of one or more species. In Protected Areas with high prey availability, we expect intraguild coexistence and conspecific competition among carnivores, with spill‐over to forest‐edge habitats and subsequent prey‐switching to livestock. We stress that dhole–leopard–tiger co‐occurrence across their range is facilitated through an intricate yet fragile balance between prey availability, and intraguild and conspecific competition. Data gaps and limitations notwithstanding, our study shows how insights from fundamental ecology can be of immense utility for applied aspects like large predator conservation and management of human–carnivore interactions. Our findings also highlight potential avenues for future research on tropical carnivores that can broaden current understanding of intraguild competition in forest systems of Asia and beyond.

This file contains surface and subsurface data from sediment cores from Loboi wetland, Kenya. Surface samples: seed macrophyte and testate amoebae data, geochemistry Core samples C1: seed macrophyte and testate amoebae data, geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility C7: geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility Papyrus: geochemistry, magnetic susceptibility Soil pit: geochemistry,

Responses of soil water content, soil inorganic nitrogen, aboveground and belowground biomass, soil respiration, ecosystem respiration, net ecosystem production, and gross ecosystem production to precipitation variability from a 3-y manipulative experiment (2004-2016) and a 12-y model simulation (2000-2011).

Temperature data recorded at the interface of a u-tube and the grout of a borehole heat exchanger production well and water temperature as it entered and left the well field. The wells is a central well of a 144 well borehole heat exchanger. Temperature was recorded using a series of thermocouples attached to the u-tube at 50 foot intervals from 50 to 400 feet below ground surface. Temperatures were recorded every hour from 4/17/2017 through 6/23/2017. Temperature of the water entering and leaving the borehole heat exchanger was also recorded. Units are in degrees Celsius. Description of the column headers. Date_Time: Date and time of the temperature measurement. 50_degC: Temperature measurement at 50 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 100_degC: Temperature measurement at 100 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 150_degC: Temperature measurement at 150 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 200_degC: Temperature measurement at 200 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 250_degC: Temperature measurement at 250 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 300_degC: Temperature measurement at 300 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 350_degC: Temperature measurement at 350 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. 400_degC: Temperature measurement at 400 feet below ground surface of the interface of the incoming water side of the u-tube and grout. BHE_IN__degC: Temperature measurement of the water entering the borehole heat exchanger. BHE_OUT__degC: Temperature measurement of the water leaving the borehole heat exchanger.

Using a 33-year-long dataset spanning a 1267-meter semi-arid elevational gradient in the southwestern United States, we test whether flowering phenology diverged among subpopulations within species and among five communities comprising 590 species. Applying circular statistics to test for changes in year-round flowering, we show flowering has become earlier for all communities except at the highest elevations. However, flowering times shifted at different rates across elevations likely due to elevation-specific changes in temperature and precipitation, indicating diverging phenologies of neighboring communities. Subpopulations of individual species also diverged at mid-elevation but converged in phenology at high elevation. phenology_data: Data on flowering phenology of 590 taxa collected by C. David Bertelsen over 33 years (1984-2016). A total 169,030 observations were recorded during 1,639 surveys. Data were collected along an 8.05-km trail in Finger Rock Canyon ascending from 945-2212 m, to Mt. Kimball in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, USA. The trail was partitioned into five elevation bands with distinct flowering assemblages (communities) during the growing seasons: 1) 945-1079 m, 2) 1079-1372 m, 3) 1372-1671 m, 4) 1671-1939 m, and 5) 1939-2212 m. Every species seen in anthesis (angiosperms) or releasing pollen (gymnosperms), together referred to as “flowering,” was recorded for each community along each 1.6-km-long trail segment on every survey. temperature_precipitation_data: Temperature and precipitation data for three locations within Finger Rock Canyon in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, USA. The 1930-2016 Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data was downloaded from the PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University, (http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu/explorer/), created October 25, 2017. The gauge data was collected by C. David Bertelsen.

These files have the raw data and GenStat analysis outputs for final biomass and percentages, allometric analyses, LAI data and analyses and RUE data and analyses