arthropods: Functional Arthropod Traits

arthropodsR Documentation

Functional Arthropod Traits

Description

A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany.

Usage

data(arthropods)

Format

A data.frame with 1230 observations and 19 variables.

Details

The data set comprises literature trait data of species that were sampled and measured in a project within the Biodiversity Exploratories which focuses on the effect of land use on arthropod community composition and related processes in three regions of Germany

Measures

  • Order, Suborder, Family, SpeciesID, Genus, Species, Author

  • Body_Size, Dispersal_ability,

  • Feeding_guild, Feeding_guild_short, Feeding_mode, Feeding_specialization, Feeding_tissue, Feeding_plant_part,

  • Endophagous_lifestyle, Stratum_use, Stratum_use_short, Remark,

  • scientificNameStd

Source

When using this data, please cite the original publication:

  • Gossner MM, Simons NK, Achtziger R, Blick T, Dorow WHO, Dziock F, Koehler F, Rabitsch W, Weisser WW (2015) A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany. Scientific Data. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.13.

Additionally, please cite the Dryad data package:

  • Gossner MM, Simons NK, Achtziger R, Blick T, Dorow WHO, Dziock F, Koehler F, Rabitsch W, Weisser WW (2015) Data from: A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany. Dryad Digital Repository. http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.53ds2.


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