Microclimate change, forest disturbance and twig-dwelling ants

Description: Data and twig colonisation experiments on twig-nesting ant communitiesProject: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Microclimate change, forest disturbance and twig-dwelling antsXML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available hereData worksheets: There are 6 data worksheets in this dataset:Plot locality information (Worksheet Plot.Locations)Dimensions: 28 rows by 5 columnsDescription: Identifies the nearest SAFE Project sampling site to survey plotsFields: Forest.area : SAFE Project Block in which sampling took place (Field type: ID)Plot: Plot within Forest.area (Field type: ID)Location: SAFE Project sample site (Field type: Location)SAFE.Code: SAFE Project sample site (Field type: ID)Twig-nesting ant communities (Worksheet Observed.Colonies)Dimensions: 154 rows by 10 columnsDescription: Plot surveys of naturally occurring twig-nesting ant communitiesFields: Location: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: Location)Forest.area: SAFE Project Block in which sampling took place (Field type: ID)Plot: Plot within Forest.area (Field type: ID)SAFE.Code: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: ID)Subplot: Sub-plot within Plot (Field type: ID)Genus: Genus identity (Field type: Taxa)Date: Day on which the survey took place (Field type: Date)No.Searched: The number of twigs examined for ant colonies in the 1m sub-plot quadrat. Fifteen person-minutes of searching time was put in at each sub-plot to search for colonies of twig-dwelling ants. To locate potential colonies, all twigs of up to 4 cm in diameter found within the search time were broken open to detect any ants living in twig cavities. (Field type: Numeric)No.Colonies.Found: The number of colonies found in the 1m sub-plot quadrat, during the searching time. A colony was defined as by Sagata et al. (2010) as a group of ants with at least one queen, or at least two workers with brood. (Field type: Numeric)Experimental colonisation of twigs (Worksheet Twig.Opening)Dimensions: 905 rows by 14 columnsDescription: Observations of twig-ant colonisation of experimental twigsFields: Location: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: Location)Forest.area: SAFE Project Block in which sampling took place (Field type: ID)Plot: Plot within Forest.area (Field type: ID)SAFE.Code: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: ID)Subplot: Sub-plot within Plot (Field type: ID)Twig: The identification number of an individual artificial twig (Field type: ID)Date.out: The date the individual artificial twig was placed in the subplo (Field type: Date)Date.check: The date on which the artificial twig was watched to deterimine whether it was occupied (Field type: Date)Prediction: Was the twig predicted to be occupied by ants based on visual observation? (Field type: Categorical)Open.results: Is an ant colonYpresent in the twig? (Field type: Categorical)Genus: Genus identity (Field type: Taxa)Termites: Did the twig have termites inside when cut open? (Field type: Categorical)Comments: Comments on problems, or weather if it may have affected the prediction. (Field type: Comments)Environmental data (Worksheet Environ.Data)Dimensions: 943 rows by 18 columnsDescription: Microclimate conditions at each of the survey plotsFields: Location: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: Location)Forest.area: SAFE Project Block in which sampling took place (Field type: ID)Plot: Plot within Forest.area (Field type: ID)SAFE.Code: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: ID)Subplot: Sub-plot within Plot (Field type: ID)Date: Date the data was collected (Field type: Date)Time: Time the data was collected (Field type: Time)Tair : Air temperatures (Field type: Numeric)Tsoil: Soil temperature (Field type: Numeric)Hum: Humidity (Field type: Numeric)Lux: Light level (Field type: Numeric)Tsurf1: Surface temperature (one of four measurements in the plot) (Field type: Numeric)Tsurf2: Surface temperature (one of four measurements in the plot) (Field type: Numeric)Tsurf3: Surface temperature (one of four measurements in the plot) (Field type: Numeric)Tsurf4: Surface temperature (one of four measurements in the plot) (Field type: Numeric)Sun: An estimate of the amount of direct sunlight on the ground of the subplot. (Field type: Numeric)Comments: Observations about weather conditions impacting environmental measurements (Field type: Comments)Colonisation observations (Worksheet Colonisation)Dimensions: 14489 rows by 11 columnsDescription: Visual observation of colonisation status of experimental twigsFields: Location: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: Location)Forest.area: SAFE Project Block in which sampling took place (Field type: ID)Plot: Plot within Forest.area (Field type: ID)SAFE.Code: SAFE project sampling point (Field type: ID)Subplot: Sub-plot within Plot (Field type: ID)Twig: The identification number of an individual artificial twig (Field type: ID)Date.out: The date the individual artificial twig was placed in the subplo (Field type: Date)Date.check: The date on which the artificial twig was watched to deterimine whether it was occupied (Field type: Date)Status: Was the twig predicted to be occupied by ants based oNvisual observation? (Field type: Categorical)Comments: Additional comments on the state of the twig, if termites were seen, or if there were weather conditions which may have interfered with the survey. (Field type: Comments)Ant thermotolerance (Worksheet Boiling.Data)Dimensions: 605 rows by 4 columnsDescription: Experimental tests of ant thermotoleranceFields: Genus: Genus identity (Field type: Taxa)T.Max: The temperature at which the ant lost motor control and either crunched up and became still/died, or fell over and began jerking uncontrollably, without recovery. (Field type: Numeric)Comments: A description of features of the ant if not a worker, of anything that went wrong during the experiement, and of whether the ant was found alive following exposure to T.Max. (Field type: Comments)Date range: 2015-04-07 to 2016-06-15Latitudinal extent: 4.6373 to 4.7116Longitudinal extent: 117.4523 to 117.6242Taxonomic coverage: All taxon names are validated against the GBIF backbone taxonomy. If a dataset uses a synonym, the accepted usage is shown followed by the dataset usage in brackets. Taxa that cannot be validated, including new species and other unknown taxa, morphospecies, functional groups and taxonomic levels not used in the GBIF backbone are shown in square brackets.Animalia - Arthropoda - - Insecta - - - Hymenoptera - - - - Formicidae - - - - - Acanthomyrmex - - - - - Bothriomyrmex - - - - - Camponotus - - - - - Cardiocondyla - - - - - Carebara - - - - - Cataulacus - - - - - Centromyrmex - - - - - Cerapachys - - - - - Crematogaster - - - - - Echinopla - - - - - Forelophilus - - - - - Hypoponera - - - - - Lepisiota - - - - - Meranoplus - - - - - Nylanderia - - - - - Pachycondyla - - - - - Paraparatrechina - - - - - Pheidole - - - - - Pheidologeton - - - - - Plagiolepis - - - - - Polyrhachis - - - - - Prenolepis - - - - - Pseudolasius - - - - - Rhoptromyrmex - - - - - Strumigenys - - - - - Tetramorium - - - - - Tetraponera - - - - - [VT4] - - - - - Vollenhovi