Dung beetle sexual selection morphology data

Horn length, pronotum width, and body and testes masses for dung beetles across the SAFE sites in 2011 and 2015

Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Can the intensity of sexual selection predict the persistence of dung beetle species during habitat disturbance?

Funding: These data were collected as part of research funded by:

• NERC (Human Modified Tropical Forests Programme, NE/K016407/1, http://lombok.nerc-hmtf.info/; http://nerc-hmtf.info/)
• British Ecological Society (Small Projects Grant, 3256/4035)
• Varley Gradwell Travelling Fellowship In Insect Ecology (Fellowship to E. Slade)

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.

Permits: These data were collected under permit from the following authorities:

• SaBC (Research licence Access licence number JKM/MBS.1000-2/2(381))
• MBMC (Research licence Project number 129)
• Royal Society SEARRP (Research licence RS302)
• MBMC (Research licence project number MBMC/2010/16))
• EPU (Research licence EPU Ruj. UPE: 40/200/19/2712)

XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here

Files: This consists of 1 file: SAFE_database_dung_beetle_sexual_selection_data_final_uploaded.xlsx

SAFE_database_dung_beetle_sexual_selection_data_final_uploaded.xlsx

This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables:

1. Horn, body, and testes measurement data (described in worksheet morphology_data)

   Description: Horn length, pronotum width, testes mass, and body mass of dung beetles across the SAFE sites in 2011 and 2015

   Number of fields: 12

   Number of data rows: 7741

   Fields:

   • habitat: SAFE habitat type (Field type: categorical)
   • replicate: SAFE sampling block (Field type: location)
   • species: species (Field type: taxa)
   • sex: sex (Field type: categorical trait)
   • year: year individual collected (NA's from OUNHM collections) (Field type: numeric)
   • pronotum_width: measurement (Field type: numeric trait)
   • horn_front: measurement (Field type: numeric trait)
   • horn_side: measurement (Field type: numeric trait)
   • pronotum_horn_front: measurement (Field type: numeric trait)
   • pronotum_horn_side: measurement (Field type: numeric trait)
   • total_mass: weight (Field type: numeric trait)
   • testes_mass: weight (Field type: numeric trait)

Date range: 2011-02-01 to 2015-01-10

Latitudinal extent: 4.6350 to 4.7716

Longitudinal extent: 116.9474 to 117.7031

Taxonomic 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.