DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.2536269
title: Occurrence of blood feeding terrestrial leeches in a degraded forest ecosystem

description: <strong>Description: </strong>

This dataset includes the abundance of two species of terrestrial leech collected at multiple sites at the SAFE project in Sabah, Malaysia. Leech collections took place over two seasons, one in the dry season of 2015 and one in the wet season of 2016. For each of the sites, four repeated visits took place and 20 minute searches were conducted within the boundaries of 25 m2 vegetation plots. As these sites have been subjected to differennt degrees of current and historic degradation, the vegetation structure data is also included for each site. For a subset of the leech sites there is corresponding mammal detection data from camera traps across the landscape, which is also included in this dataset.

<strong>Project: </strong>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <strong>The effects of rainforest fragmentation on mammal community assemblages using leech blood-meal analysis</strong>

<strong>Funding: </strong>These data were collected as part of research funded by:


	NERC (Standard grant , NE/K016148/1)


This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs.

 

<strong>XML metadata: </strong>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here

<strong>Files: </strong>This consists of 1 file: Drinkwater2019_leech_occurrence.xlsx

<strong>Drinkwater2019_leech_occurrence.xlsx</strong>

This file contains dataset metadata and 4 data tables:


	
	<strong>Leech abundance and survey-covariates 2015</strong> (described in worksheet abundance2015)

	Description: This dataset has the abundance of all the leech individuals of both species collected during surveys in 2015 between February and June. The number of leech collected is split by species of leech and each of the four visits per site. For each survey at a site the associated survey-specific covariates are included. These are the associated effort (number of people collecting the leeches) and the date the visits happened (julian day since the beginning of the year).

	Number of fields: 13

	Number of data rows: 169

	Fields:

	
		<strong>site</strong>: SAFE second order point (Field type: Location)
		<strong>visit_B1</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during first visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_B2</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during second visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_B3</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during third visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_B4</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during fourth visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T1</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during first visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T2</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during second visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T3</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during third visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T4</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during fourth visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_1</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the first visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_2</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the second visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_3</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the third visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_4</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the fourth visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
	
	
	
	<strong>Leech abundance and survey-covariates 2015</strong> (described in worksheet abundance2016)

	Description: This dataset has the abundance of all the leech individuals of both species collected during surveys in 2016 between September and December. The number of leech collected is split by species of leech and each of the four visits per site. For each survey at a site the associated survey-specific covariates are included. These are the associated effort (number of people collecting the leeches) and the date the visits happened (julian day since the beginning of the year).

	Number of fields: 13

	Number of data rows: 169

	Fields:

	
		<strong>site</strong>: SAFE second order point (Field type: Location)
		<strong>visit_B1</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during first visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_B2</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during second visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_B3</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during third visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_B4</strong>: Number of brown leeches collected during fourth visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T1</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during first visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T2</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during second visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T3</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during third visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>visit_T4</strong>: Number of tiger leeches collected during fourth visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_1</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the first visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_2</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the second visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_3</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the third visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>eff_4</strong>: Number of people collecting leeches per survey as a measure of survey effort for the fourth visit to each site (Field type: Abundance)
	
	
	
	<strong>Site specific covariates</strong> (described in worksheet covariates)

	Description: Vegetation structure data associated with each site for which leech surveys were conducted. The metrics include canopy height, moran's I and plant-area-index. These data were extracted from LiDAR data with a 50 m2 buffer around the centroid for each site.

	Number of fields: 6

	Number of data rows: 169

	Fields:

	
		<strong>site</strong>: SAFE second order point code (Field type: Location)
		<strong>tch</strong>: Top of canopy height per site (Field type: Numeric)
		<strong>canopy_height_moran</strong>: Habitat heterogeneity - Morans I - per site (Field type: Numeric)
		<strong>canopy_height_sd</strong>: Standard deviation of canopy height (Field type: Numeric)
		<strong>pai_mean</strong>: Mean plant area index at site (Field type: Numeric)
		<strong>pai_sd</strong>: Plant area index standard deviation (Field type: Numeric)
	
	
	
	<strong>Mammal detections </strong> (described in worksheet mammals)

	Description: This dataset contains the mammal detections recorded from camera traps at a subset of the leech survey locations. Sampling effort is also included as a measure of survey effort.

	Number of fields: 27

	Number of data rows: 83

	Fields:

	
		<strong>Camera</strong>: Name of camera (Field type: Location)
		<strong>CTNs</strong>: Measure of trapping effort - number of nights the cameras were operational (Field type: Numeric)
		<strong>Asian Elephant</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Banded Civet</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Banteng</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Bearded Pig</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Bornean Yellow Muntjac</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Common Palm Civet</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Greater Mouse-deer</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Leopard Cat</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Lesser Mouse-deer</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Long-tailed Macaque</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Long-tailed Porcupine</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Malay Civet</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Malay Porcupine</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Marbled Cat</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Masked Palm Civet</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Moonrat</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Mousedeer sp.</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Muntjac sp.</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Orangutan</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Pig-tailed Macaque</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Red Muntjac</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Sambar Deer</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Sun Bear</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Sunda Pangolin</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
		<strong>Thick-spined Porcupine</strong>: Count of detections for this taxon (Field type: Abundance)
	
	


<strong>Date range: </strong>2015-02-01 to 2016-12-31

<strong>Latitudinal extent: </strong>4.5000 to 5.0700

<strong>Longitudinal extent: </strong>116.7500 to 117.8200

<strong>Taxonomic coverage: </strong><br>
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<br>
 - Annelida<br>
 -  - Clitellata<br>
 -  -  - Arhynchobdellida<br>
 -  -  -  - Haemadipsidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Haemadipsa</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Haemadipsa picta</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Haemadipsa</em><br>
 - Chordata<br>
 -  - Mammalia<br>
 -  -  - Artiodactyla<br>
 -  -  -  - Bovidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Bos</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Bos javanicus</em><br>
 -  -  -  - Cervidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Muntiacus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Muntiacus atherodes</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Muntiacus muntjak</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Rusa</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Rusa unicolor</em><br>
 -  -  -  - Suidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Sus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Sus barbatus</em><br>
 -  -  -  - Tragulidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Tragulus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Tragulus kanchil</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Tragulus napu</em><br>
 -  -  - Carnivora<br>
 -  -  -  - Felidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Pardofelis</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Pardofelis marmorata</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Prionailurus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Prionailurus bengalensis</em><br>
 -  -  -  - Ursidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Helarctos</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Helarctos malayanus</em><br>
 -  -  -  - Viverridae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Hemigalus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Hemigalus derbyanus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Paguma</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Paguma larvata</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Paradoxurus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Paradoxurus hermaphroditus</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Viverra</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Viverra tangalunga</em><br>
 -  -  - Erinaceomorpha<br>
 -  -  -  - Erinaceidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Echinosorex</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Echinosorex gymnura</em><br>
 -  -  - Pholidota<br>
 -  -  -  - Manidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Manis</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Manis javanica</em><br>
 -  -  - Primates<br>
 -  -  -  - Cercopithecidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Macaca</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Macaca fascicularis</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Macaca nemestrina</em><br>
 -  -  -  - Hominidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Homo</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Homo sapiens</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Pongo</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Pongo pygmaeus</em><br>
 -  -  - Proboscidea<br>
 -  -  -  - Elephantidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Elephas</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Elephas maximus</em><br>
 -  -  - Rodentia<br>
 -  -  -  - Hystricidae<br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Hystrix</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Hystrix brachyura</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Hystrix crassispinis</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  - <em>Trichys</em><br>
 -  -  -  -  -  - <em>Trichys fasciculata</em>