Orchid Bee Pollinator Visitation Data with Wind and Forest Cover

James D. Crall's data supports research on wind's role in pollinator dynamics in fragmented tropical forests. It includes orchid bee abundance, species identification, and site-specific forest cover and wind measurements. The dataset is accompanied by R scripts to reproduce the statistical analyses from the associated paper.

Use Cases

• Modeling pollinator abundance based on wind speed and forest cover data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing species composition changes in orchid bee communities across fragmented habitats
• Investigating temporal variation in pollinator visitation using time-series collection session data
• Reproducing ecological statistical analyses using the provided R scripts

Strengths

• Includes multiple linked data types: species counts, environmental variables, and analysis code
• Data is associated with a published scientific paper, providing methodological context
• Contains site-specific measurements for forest cover and wind, enabling spatial analysis

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

James D. Crall, Harvard University Press

Collection Method

Field collection sessions recording orchid bee abundance and environmental variables.

Time Range

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Freshness

unknown

Geography

Tropical forest fragments (specific location unknown)