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Joined and flat version of EDI data package knb-lter-hfr.118.33
Description
A fully joined and flat version of EDI data package knb-lter-hfr.118.33 (Ant Assemblages in Hemlock Removal Experiment at Harvard Forest since 2003) with all relevant ecocomDP L1 identifiers and content added. Use this dataset as an input to the L0_flat argument of the "create" functions.
Usage
ants_L0_flat
Format
A data frame with 2931 rows and 45 variables:
- datetime
dates
- block
block
- plot
plot number
- treatment
treatment type
- moose.cage
location of grid with respect to moose exclosure
- trap.type
trap type
- trap.num
applies only to pitfall cups
- subfamily
ant subfamily
- hl
head length. We used trait definitions from Del Toro et al. (2015) and filled in missing species' data with information from Ellison et al.
- rel
eye length relative to body size
- rll
femur length relative to body size
- colony.size
size of colony for each species
- feeding.preference
feeding preference for each species
- nest.substrate
nest substrate
- primary.habitat
primary habitat
- secondary.habitat
secondary habitat associations
- seed.disperser
whether or not a seed dispersing species
- slavemaker.sp
whether or not a slavemaking species
- behavior
classifications based on behavioral interactions with other ants
- biogeographic.affinity
biogeographic affinity based on available occurrence records
- source
where trait information was found. Full citations for literature are as follows: Del Toro, I., R.R. Silva, and A.M. Ellison. 2015. Predicated impacts of climatic change on ant functional diversity and distributions in eastern North American forests. Diversity and Distributions 21:781-791; Ellison, A.M., N.J. Gotelli, G. Alpert, and E.J. Farnsworth. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- unit_hl
units for "hl" variable
- unit_rel
units for "rel" variable
- unit_rll
units for "rll" variable
- variable_name
variables of the primary observation table
- value
values of variable_name
- unit
units of variable_name
- observation_id
the observation id
- location_id
the location id
- event_id
the event id
- latitude
approximate latitude of study area
- longitude
approximate longitude of study area
- elevation
approximate elevation of study area
- taxon_name
name of organism
- taxon_id
the taxon id
- taxon_rank
the taxon rank
- authority_system
the authority system taxon_name was resolved to
- authority_taxon_id
the id of taxon_name in authority_system
- package_id
the identifier of this ecocomDP dataset
- original_package_id
the identifier of the source dataset
- length_of_survey_years
number of years the survey has been ongoing
- number_of_years_sampled
number of years during the survey that samples were taken
- std_dev_interval_betw_years
the standard deviation between surveys in years
- max_num_taxa
number of unique taxa in this dataset
- geo_extent_bounding_box_m2
the study area in meters squared
Source
https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?scope=knb-lter-hfr&identifier=118&revision=33