Röder, Juliane; Brandl, Roland (2022): Mean abundances of epigeic arthropods on Mount Kilimanjaro [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943651
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Abstract:
On each site, ten pitfall traps were evenly spaced along two 50 m transects, with a distance of 10 m between individual traps and 20 m between transects. Pitfall traps were filled with 100–200 ml of a mixture of ethylene glycol and water (1:1 vol/vol) with a drop of liquid soap to break surface tension. Traps were exposed for 7 days each during two to five sampling events in both the dry and wet seasons between May 2011 and October 2012. As the number of individuals collected in ten traps was very high, we had to confine the sorting and subsequent analysis to sub-sets of at least three traps per sampling site and sampling event. The number of sampling events and considered samples is given in Table S2 (Röder et al. 2017). To address imbalances in the data set, we first calculated the mean abundances per trap per sampling event for each sampling site. We then calculated mean abundance per sampling site from the mean abundances per sampling event such that the number of replicates for statistical testing summed up to a total of N = 59 sampling sites. Unfortunately, we had to find out later that the ethylen glycol procured locally was actually a mixture of ethylen glycol and 2-ethoxyethanol, which is a strong oxidizing chemical. Therefore, any sequencing of specimen caught in pitfall traps was impossible.
Supplement to:
Röder, Juliane; Detsch, Florian; Otte, Insa; Appelhans, Tim; Nauss, Thomas; Peters, Marcell Karl; Brandl, Roland (2016): Heterogeneous patterns of abundance of epigeic arthropod taxa along a major elevation gradient. Biotropica, 49(2), 217-228, https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12403
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Albrecht, Jörg; Peters, Marcell Karl; Becker, Joscha N; Behler, Christina; Classen, Alice; Ensslin, Andreas; Ferger, Stefan W; Gebert, Friederike; Gerschlauer, Friederike; Helbig-Bonitz, Maria; Kindeketa, William J; Kühnel, Anna; Mayr, Antonia V; Njovu, Henry K; Pabst, Holger; Pommer, Ulf; Röder, Juliane; Rutten, Gemma; Schellenberger Costa, David; Sierra-Cornejo, Natalia; Vogeler, Anna; Vollstädt, Maximilian G R; Dulle, Hamidi Iddi; Eardley, Connal Desmond; Howell, Kim M; Keller, Alexander; Peters, Ralph S; Kakengi, Victor; Hemp, Claudia; Zhang, Jie; Manning, Peter I; Mueller, Thomas; Bogner, Christina; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Brandl, Roland; Hertel, Dietrich; Huwe, Bernd; Kiese, Ralf; Kleyer, Michael; Leuschner, Christoph; Kuzyakov, Yakov; Nauss, Thomas; Tschapka, Marco; Fischer, Markus; Hemp, Andreas; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Schleuning, Matthias (2021): Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 5(12), 1582-1593, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01550-9
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Ziegler, Alice; Meyer, Hanna; Otte, Insa; Peters, Marcell Karl; Appelhans, Tim; Behler, Christina; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Classen, Alice; Detsch, Florian; Deckert, Jürgen; Eardley, Connal Desmond; Ferger, Stefan W; Fischer, Markus; Gebert, Friederike; Haas, Michael; Helbig-Bonitz, Maria; Hemp, Andreas; Hemp, Claudia; Kakengi, Victor; Mayr, Antonia V; Ngereza, Christine; Reudenbach, Christoph; Röder, Juliane; Rutten, Gemma; Schellenberger Costa, David; Schleuning, Matthias; Ssymank, Axel; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Tardanico, Joseph; Tschapka, Marco; Vollstädt, Maximilian G R; Wöllauer, Stephan; Zhang, Jie; Brandl, Roland; Nauss, Thomas (2022): Potential of Airborne LiDAR Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro. Remote Sensing, 14(3), 786, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14030786
Further details:
Hemp, Andreas: Detailed position of KiLi research plots [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.894721
Mayr, Antonia V; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf (2019): Trophic level, standardized and not standardized species richness and explanatory variables of trap-nesting Hymenoptera at Mt. Kilimanjaro [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907534
Röder, Juliane; Brandl, Roland (2022): Raw abundances of epigaeic arthropods on Mount Kilimanjaro [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944267
Project(s):
Kilimanjaro Research Group (KiLi)
Funding:
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -3.216865 * Median Longitude: 37.409072 * South-bound Latitude: -3.388903 * West-bound Longitude: 37.236264 * North-bound Latitude: -3.052922 * East-bound Longitude: 37.684015
Minimum ELEVATION: 866 m a.s.l. * Maximum ELEVATION: 4550 m a.s.l.
Event(s):
KiLi_cof1 * Latitude: -3.240000 * Longitude: 37.250000 * Location: Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania * Comment: POLETYPE: a middle pole; ECOSYTEM: coffee plantation
Comment:
Further descriptions:
1) For method: Pitfall trap counts = pitfall traps, exposed for 7 days, containing 100-200ml sampling liquid - ethylenglycol : water (50:50) plus a drop of liquid soap to break the surface tension, trap level samples were sorted to order level and counted.
Mean per trap calculated from all analyzed trap samples per plot and sampling round, then means over all sampling rounds per plot.
2) For Coleoptera = Beetles assigned to morphospecies by Peter Schüle, Carabidae identified at species level, Tenebrionidae checked by Wolfgang Schawaller (Museum Stuttgart).
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Brandl, Roland | |||
| 2 | Vegetation type | Vegetation type | Brandl, Roland | Abbreviations of 12 vegetation types | ||
| 3 | Vegetation type | Vegetation type | Brandl, Roland | Short descriptions of 12 vegetation types | ||
| 4 | Status | Status | Brandl, Roland | Undisturbed or disturbed, disturbance can be of human (land-use, logging of Ocotea trees) or natural origin (fires in Podocarpus forests)) | ||
| 5 | ELEVATION | Elevation | m a.s.l. | Brandl, Roland | GPS in field | Geocode |
| 6 | LONGITUDE | Longitude | Brandl, Roland | GPS in field | Geocode – Coordinate of the midpoint of the study site, decimal degrees, projection WGS 84 | |
| 7 | LATITUDE | Latitude | Brandl, Roland | GPS in field | Geocode – Coordinate of the midpoint of the study site, decimal degrees, projection WGS 84 | |
| 8 | Plot | Plot | Brandl, Roland | |||
| 9 | Collembola | Collembola | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 10 | Acari | Acari | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 11 | Dorylomorpha | Dorylomorpha | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Army ants - Hymenoptera were sub-divided in three groups: army ants only ocurred sporadic, but with thousands of individuals |
| 12 | Formicidae excluding Dorylomorpha | Formicidae excl Dorylomorpha | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Other ants - Hymenoptera were sub-divided in three groups: ants show a very different behavior than other collected Hymenoptera or even army ants |
| 13 | Coleoptera | Coleoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 14 | Araneae | Araneae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 15 | Isopoda | Isopoda | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 16 | Orthoptera | Orthoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 17 | Chilopoda | Chilopoda | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 18 | Diplopoda | Diplopoda | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 19 | Isoptera | Isoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 20 | Blattoptera | Blattoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 21 | Dermaptera | Dermaptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 22 | Arthropoda, other | Arthropoda other | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 23 | Total counts | Total counts | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 24 | Predators | Predators | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 25 | Herbivors | Herbivors | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 26 | Decomposers | Decomposers | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 27 | Mixed diet | Mixed diet | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | |
| 28 | Coleoptera, predators | Coleoptera pred | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Only beetle predators combined, assignement of functional group at the family level, beetle data based on two sampling rounds in June/Juli 2011 and June/July 2012 only, assigned families: Carabidae, Coccinelidae, Histeridae, Pselaphinae, Scydmaeninae, Staphylinidae) |
| 29 | Coleoptera, herbivores | Coleoptera herbiv | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Only beetle herbivors combined, assigned families: Chrysomelidae, Curculionidae, Dynastidae, Rutelinae, Sericinae) |
| 30 | Coleoptera, decomposers | Coleoptera decomp | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Only beetle decomposers, assigned families: Cryptophagidae, Erotylidae, Lathridiidae, Scolytidae, Aphodiinae, Scarabaeinae, Leiodidae, Ptiliidae, Anthicidae, Scraptiidae) |
| 31 | Coleoptera, mixed diet | Coleoptera mixed diet | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Only beetle families comprising several functional groups, assigned families: Buprestidae, Byrrhidae, Melyridae, Nitidulidae, Elateridae, Hydrophilidae, Tenebrionidae) |
License:
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)
Status:
Curation Level: Enhanced curation (CurationLevelC)
Size:
1593 data points