The Resilience of Tropical Forest Invertebrates to Microclimate Change

This dataset examines the thermal physiology of ants accross the SAFE project, with the goal of understanding how changing microclimates affect communities of invertebrates in disturbed landscapes. Tropical invertebrates are expected to already live close to their upper thermal tolerances, and so the rapid changes to microclimate brought about by logging may be a powerful determinant of the emergent communites in disturbed forests. The worksheet contains the upper critical temperature (CTmax) of individual ants identified to genus level. Ants were collected from the ground or soil layer unless specified as arboreal. CTmax was determined using a ramping procedure whereby temeprature was increased from 32 degrees upwards at a rate of 0.2 degrees per minuted until individuals lost motor control. Ants were found by searching opportunistically throughout entire blocks, therefore for locations we have simply inputted one large fractal order from each sampling block used.

Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: The Resilience of Tropical Forest Invertebrates to Microclimate Change

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

Files: This consists of 1 file: MJWB_SAFE_CTmax_Upload.xlsx

MJWB_SAFE_CTmax_Upload.xlsx

This file contains dataset metadata and 1 data tables:

1. Ant.CTmax (described in worksheet Ant.CTmax)

   Description: The worksheet contains the upper critical temperature (CTmax in degrees centigrade) of individual ants identified to genus level. Ants were collected from the ground or soil layer unless specified as arboreal. CTmax was determined using a ramping procedure whereby temeprature was increased from 32 degrees upwards at a rate of 0.2 degrees per minuted until individuals lost motor control. Ants were found by searching opportunistically throughout entire blocks, therefore for locations we have simply inputted one large fractal order from each sampling block used.

   Number of fields: 4

   Number of data rows: 2359

   Fields:

   • CTmax: Critical upper thermal tolerance in degrees centigrade (Field type: numeric)
   • Genus: Genus name of ant (Field type: taxa)
   • Location: SAFE Project sampling block (Field type: location)
   • Arboreal: Comment on if the ant was sampled from the ground or arboreal layer (Field type: comments)

Date range: 2015-10-01 to 2019-10-01

Latitudinal extent: 4.6380 to 4.7412

Longitudinal extent: 116.9568 to 117.6245

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.