Open Access Data. Landsman, AP and CR Thiel. Habitat characteristics and climatic factors influence microhabitat selection and arthropod community structure in a globally rare central Appalachian shale barren. Ecology and Evolution.

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Open access dataset associated with published manuscript in Ecology and Evolution. Data include community matrices of spider and other arthropods collected in a shale barren habitat in western Maryland as well as environmental covariate data.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 Climatic data during sampling period. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666230?Reference=2288289
8 Ground cover and canopy cover estimates for all plots. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666226?Reference=2288289
8 Community matrix of presence/absence of all herbaceous and woody vegetation within 5-m radius around pitfall trap. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666229?Reference=2288289
8 Community matrix of stem counts of all woody vegetation within 15-m radius around pitfall trap. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666228?Reference=2288289
8 Community matrix including non-spider arthropod data https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666224?Reference=2288289
8 Longitudinal data of select arthropod taxa separated by sample date and individual pitfall trap. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666227?Reference=2288289
8 Community matrix data including spider families. Recently hatched Lycosidae have been removed. https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/DownloadFile/666225?Reference=2288289

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  • epigeic-insects
  • thermoregulation
  • arthropod-community
  • microhabitat
  • shale-barrens

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