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.

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Landsman_Thiel_Arthropods.csv CSV Community matrix including non-spider arthropod data Open resource
Landsman_Thiel_All_Spiders.csv CSV Community matrix data including spider families. Recently hatched Lycosidae have been removed. Open resource
Landsman_Thiel_Ground_Canopy_Cover_Estimates.csv CSV Ground cover and canopy cover estimates for all plots. Open resource
Landsman_Thiel_Longitudinal_Arthropods.csv CSV Longitudinal data of select arthropod taxa separated by sample date and individual pitfall trap. Open resource
Landsman_Thiel_Woody_Vegetation.csv CSV Community matrix of stem counts of all woody vegetation within 15-m radius around pitfall trap. Open resource
Landsman_Thiel_All_Vegetation.csv CSV Community matrix of presence/absence of all herbaceous and woody vegetation within 5-m radius around pitfall trap. Open resource
Landsman_Thiel_Climate_Data.csv CSV Climatic data during sampling period. Open resource

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