Röder, Juliane; Brandl, Roland (2022): Raw abundances of epigaeic arthropods on Mount Kilimanjaro [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.944267
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Abstract:
There are several data sets originating from the same pitfall trap samples. The other data set I just submitted contains mean abundances per plot. This data set now contains raw data at trap level (several traps per plot). I am planning to upload more data sets on specific taxa (spiders, springtails, beetles), and my colleagues should upload some more data sets on snails, millipedes and more springtails containing (but not limited to) specimen caught in the same pitfall trap samples. Abstract We sampled arthropod assemblages in disturbed and undisturbed vegetation types along an elevational gradient of 860–4550 m asl on the southern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. 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. 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
Related to:
Röder, Juliane; Brandl, Roland (2022): Mean abundances of epigeic arthropods on Mount Kilimanjaro [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.943651
Further details:
Hemp, Andreas: Detailed position of KiLi research plots [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.894721
Project(s):
Kilimanjaro Research Group (KiLi)
Funding:
Coverage:
Median Latitude: -3.216667 * Median Longitude: 37.410333 * South-bound Latitude: -3.390000 * West-bound Longitude: 37.240000 * North-bound Latitude: -3.050000 * East-bound Longitude: 37.680000
Date/Time Start: 2011-06-28T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2012-11-17T00:00:00
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
Parameter(s):
| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Event label | Event | Brandl, Roland | |||
| 2 | Plot | Plot | Brandl, Roland | Abbreviated name of sampling site: three characters for habitat, numbers 1-5 for eastern to western sites (for new sites: numbers 0 or 6 accordingly) | ||
| 3 | Vegetation type | Vegetation type | Brandl, Roland | Abbreviations of 12 vegetation types | ||
| 4 | Vegetation type | Vegetation type | Brandl, Roland | short descriptions of 12 vegetation types | ||
| 5 | Vegetation type | Vegetation type | Brandl, Roland | sequence of vegetation types as shown in manuscript | ||
| 6 | 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)) | ||
| 7 | Sample comment | Sample comment | Brandl, Roland | Sampling round (abbreviated month of placement of traps and year of sampling) | ||
| 8 | Number | No | Brandl, Roland | Sampling round number (chronological sequence of sampling rounds) | ||
| 9 | ELEVATION | Elevation | m a.s.l. | Brandl, Roland | Geocode | |
| 10 | Sample ID | Sample ID | Brandl, Roland | unique sample ID including habitat and plot ID, date of sample collection and trap ID | ||
| 11 | DATE/TIME | Date/Time | Brandl, Roland | Geocode – The day the sample was collected from the field. | ||
| 12 | Identification | ID | Brandl, Roland | Upper transect T1 (1-5) and lower transect T2 (6-10), numbering left to right | ||
| 13 | Total counts | Total counts | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all arthropods per trap |
| 14 | Predators | Predators | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all arthropods assigned to an order comprising mostly predators species |
| 15 | Herbivors | Herbivors | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all arthropods assigned to an order comprising mostly herbivorous species |
| 16 | Decomposers | Decomposers | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all arthropods assigned to an order comprising mostly decomposer species |
| 17 | Mixed diet | Mixed diet | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all arthropods assigned to an order comprising species with a mixed diet, or several species with very different diets |
| 18 | Dorylomorpha | Dorylomorpha | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Hymenoptera were sub-divided in three groups: army ants only ocurred sporadic, but with thousands of individuals |
| 19 | Araneae | Araneae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators (Araneae sorted to family level by Dr. Steffen Bayer (not shown here) |
| 20 | Chilopoda | Chilopoda | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 21 | Orthoptera | Orthoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Herbivores (further identified by Dr. Claudia Hemp and others (not shown here)). |
| 22 | Collembola | Collembola | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers (morphospecies for some of the samples identified by Dr. Jörg Salamon, further cooperation with Dr. Charlene Janion-Scheepers, Monash University, Australia (not shown here)). |
| 23 | Isopoda | Isopoda | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 24 | Diplopoda | Diplopoda | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers (further identified by Sara Frederiksen (not shown here)). |
| 25 | Isoptera | Isoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 26 | Coleoptera | Coleoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet (Carabidae species and morphospecies for other families determined by Peter Schüle, Tenebrionidae identified by Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller, Curculionidae assessed by Dr. Vasily Grebennikov (genera/species not shown here)). |
| 27 | Acari | Acari | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 28 | Formicidae excluding Dorylomorpha | Formicidae excl Dorylomorpha | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet (Hymenoptera were sub-divided in three groups: ants show a very different behavior than other collected Hymenoptera or even army ants, so they were considered extra) |
| 29 | Blattodea | Blattodea | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 30 | Dermaptera | Dermaptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 31 | Arthropoda, non-focal taxa | Arthropoda n-f taxa | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all arthropods which did not belong to one of the focal taxa |
| 32 | Opiliones | Opiliones | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators - sequence of orders according to total abundance. from here to the right: non-focal orders, which were nevertheless used in the sums of functional groups |
| 33 | Scorpiones | Scorpiones | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 34 | Solifugae | Solifugae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 35 | Pseudoscorpiones | Pseudoscorpiones | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 36 | Mantodea | Mantodea | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 37 | Homoptera | Homoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Hemiptera - Homoptera (herbivores) |
| 38 | Embioptera | Embioptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Herbivores |
| 39 | Lepidoptera | Lepidoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Herbivores (almost all larvae) |
| 40 | Protura | Protura | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 41 | Zygentoma | Zygentoma | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 42 | Archaeognatha | Archaeognatha | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 43 | Diptera | Diptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 44 | Heteroptera | Heteroptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Hemiptera - Heteroptera (mixed diet) |
| 45 | Psocoptera | Psocoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 46 | Thysanoptera | Thysanoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 47 | Diplura | Diplura | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 48 | Hymenoptera excluding Formicidae | Hymenoptera excl Formicidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Hymenoptera without Formicidae (parasites or parasitoids - not considered in the analysis). Hymenoptera were sub-divided in three groups: without Formicidae, the majority of Hymenoptera species are parasitoids, a group which was not discussed in this manuscript. |
| 49 | Phthiraptera | Phthiraptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Most likely only caught along with their hosts: shrews and mice, Unfortunately, a total of 51 shrews and 13 mice were caught in pitfall traps. All vertebrates remained in Tanzania |
| 50 | Siphonaptera | Siphonaptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Parasites or parasitoids - not considered in the analysis. |
| 51 | Arthropoda indeterminata | Arthropoda indet | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Unknown - not considered in the analysis. |
| 52 | Coleoptera, predators | Coleoptera pred | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all identified beetles assigned to a family comprising mostly predators species - only for a subset of samples |
| 53 | Coleoptera, herbivores | Coleoptera herbiv | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all identified beetles assigned to a family comprising mostly herbivorous species - only for a subset of samples |
| 54 | Coleoptera, decomposers | Coleoptera decomp | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all identified beetles assigned to a family comprising mostly decomposer species - only for a subset of samples |
| 55 | Coleoptera, mixed diet | Coleoptera mixed diet | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Sum of all identified beetles assigned to a family comprising species with a mixed diet, or several species with very different diets - only for a subset of samples |
| 56 | Staphylinidae | Staphylinidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 57 | Carabidae | Carabidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators; Carabidae determined by Peter Schüle, as well as morphospecies for other families determined by Peter Schüle (species not shown here) - only for a subset of samples |
| 58 | Histeridae | Histeridae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 59 | Coccinellidae | Coccinellidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Predators |
| 60 | Curculionidae | Curculionidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Herbivores |
| 61 | Chrysomelidae | Chrysomelidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Herbivores |
| 62 | Silvanidae | Silvanidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 63 | Scraptiidae | Scraptiidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 64 | Scolytidae | Scolytidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 65 | Ptiliidae | Ptiliidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 66 | Leiodidae | Leiodidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 67 | Lathridiidae | Lathridiidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 68 | Erotylidae | Erotylidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 69 | Cryptophagidae | Cryptophagidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 70 | Anthicidae | Anthicidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Decomposers |
| 71 | Tenebrionidae | Tenebrionidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet. Tenebrionidae identified by Dr. Wolfgang Schawaller (species not shown here) - only for a subset of samples |
| 72 | Scarabaeidae | Scarabaeidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 73 | Nitidulidae | Nitidulidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 74 | Melyridae | Melyridae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 75 | Hydrophilidae | Hydrophilidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 76 | Elateridae | Elateridae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 77 | Byrrhidae | Byrrhidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 78 | Buprestidae | Buprestidae | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Mixed diet |
| 79 | Coleoptera | Coleoptera | #/week | Brandl, Roland | Pitfall Trap counts | Unknown family beetles |
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