Six years (2017–2022) of stability and asynchrony metrics for Lepidoptera caterpillars and trees, from populations to metacommunities, collected in the BEF-China experiment. The dataset was authored by Ming-Qiang Wang and is available as a 700.3 KB CSV file under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Modeling biodiversity-stability relationships based on multi-trophic data.
- Analyzing population asynchrony as a driver of community stability based on the provided metrics.
- Studying temporal stability patterns across different ecological scales (population to metacommunity).
- Investigating the correlation between tree and insect herbivore community dynamics over time.
Strengths
- Data spans six consecutive years (2017–2022), providing a multi-year time series.
- Covers multiple ecological scales, from populations to metacommunities, for two trophic groups.
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analyses.
- The dataset is relatively small (700.3 KB), indicating a limited scope or number of observations.
Provenance
- Source
- figshare
- Collection Method
- Collected from the BEF-China (Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning) experiment.
- Time Range
- 2017–2022
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-07 04:58:19; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- BEF-China experiment site (location unspecified in input).