DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908117
title: Ecosystem process rates across SAFE project forest quality gradient

description: <b>Description: </b>Examining rates at which vertebrate and invertebrate functional groups carry out 3 key ecosystem functions (seed removal, invertebrate predation and scavenging) and whether this changes across the SAFE project forest quality gradient. At second order sites (tree plots) within the SAFE project landscape, bait stations to test these three processes were set up. These consisted of 10 seeds (to test seed removal), live mealworm (to test invertebrate predation) or dead mealworm (to test scavenging). 3 bait stations for each ecosystem process set up in a triangle at the third order point (insect point). These consisted of baits attached to a plastic leaf. Each of these bait stations was assigned vertebrate exclusion treatment (wire cage), invertebrate exclusion (insect glue) or control (no exclusion). Data obtained from LIDAR used as a proxy for forest quality. This should help unravel how ecosystem process rates and the dominant functional group carrying out these processes may change as forests are degraded.<b>Project: </b>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <b>MRes Tropical Forest Ecology Field Course</b><b>XML metadata: </b>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here<b>Files: </b>This consists of 1 file: Ecosystem_Process_Rates.xlsx<b>Ecosystem_Process_Rates.xlsx</b>This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables:<b>Rates of Ecosystem Processes</b> (described in worksheet Ecosystem-Process-Rates)Description: Results from ecosystem process rates experiments (described above)Number of fields: 29Number of data rows: 2039Fields: <b>ID</b>: Location of sampling point (Field type: location)<b>ec5_uuid</b>: Entry code on epicollect (Field type: id)<b>created_at</b>: Date and Time (Field type: datetime)<b>created_by</b>: Author email (Field type: id)<b>title</b>: Title of entry on epicollect (Field type: id)<b>X2_Block</b>: Site ID (Field type: id)<b>X3_Tree_plot_ID</b>: Tree plot number (Field type: id)<b>X4_Picture_of_tree_pl</b>: Photo of tree plot tag (Field type: id)<b>X5_Insect_point_ID</b>: Insect point number (Field type: id)<b>X6_Picture_of_insect_</b>: Photo of insect point tag (Field type: id)<b>X7_Repeat</b>: Repeat (Field type: replicate)<b>X8_Treatment</b>: Treatment categories (Field type: categorical)<b>X9_Date</b>: Date (Field type: date)<b>X10_Time</b>: Time (Field type: time)<b>X11_Ecosystem_Process</b>: Ecosystem process (Field type: categorical)<b>X13_Seeds_removed</b>: Number of seeds removed (Field type: numeric)<b>X14_Seeds_partially_e</b>: Number of seeds partially eaten (Field type: numeric)<b>X15_Seeds_untouched</b>: Number of seeds untouched (Field type: numeric)<b>X17_Live_mealworm</b>: Level of consumption of live mealworm (Field type: categorical)<b>X19_Dead_mealworm</b>: Level of consumption of dead mealworm (Field type: categorical)<b>X20_Condition_of_trap</b>: Condition of trap (Field type: categorical)<b>lat_22_GPS</b>: NA (Field type: latitude)<b>long_22_GPS</b>: NA (Field type: longitude)<b>accuracy_22_GPS</b>: GPS accuracy level (Field type: numeric)<b>X23_Observer_initials</b>: Observer identity (Field type: id)<b>X24_Photo_of_plastic_</b>: Photo of bait station - photos stored online at Epicollect5 (Field type: id)<b>X25_Comments</b>: Any additional comments (Field type: comments)<b>Dead_mealworm_binary</b>: Dead mealworm presence (Field type: categorical)<b>Live_mealworm_binary</b>: Live mealworm presence (Field type: categorical)<b>Date range: </b>2019-02-04 to 2019-02-21<b>Latitudinal extent: </b>4.6876 to 4.7494<b>Longitudinal extent: </b>116.9558 to 117.6197