Experimental data from a study combining surveys and manipulations to test how habitat size and predator presence shape invertebrate community richness and phylogenetic relatedness. The dataset, authored by Nadia B. Páez-Rosales and harvested from Borealis, was last updated in April 2026. It isolates colonization and extinction processes to examine assembly mechanisms across taxonomic scales.
Use Cases
- Modeling species richness responses to habitat size based on experimental manipulations described in the study.
- Analyzing phylogenetic relatedness patterns across taxonomic scales in response to environmental gradients.
- Testing hypotheses about predator-mediated extinction and colonization processes in invertebrate communities.
- Investigating trait phylogenetic conservation as a driver of community assembly mentioned in the theoretical framework.
Strengths
- Data integrates observational surveys with controlled experiments manipulating habitat size and predator presence.
- Study design isolates colonization and extinction processes, allowing for mechanistic inference.
- Analysis spans multiple taxonomic scales to examine phylogenetic patterns.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Combined surveys of natural bromeliad invertebrate communities with experiments manipulating habitat size and predator presence.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-25 04:12:35; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
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