Butterfly Community Indices for 1 km² Grids in a Regional Study

235.1 MB of data underpins the 2026 study 'Landscape anthropization drives composition and diversity of butterfly communities at a regional scale'. The dataset includes alpha, beta, and functional diversity indices aggregated at a 1 km² resolution, created by BAPTISTE BONGIBAULT. Raw species occurrence data are not included to respect data privacy.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between landscape anthropization and alpha diversity based on the spr_1km² index
• Analyzing functional trait shifts in communities using the CWM_1km² functional index dataset
• Investigating beta diversity patterns (taxonomic, functional, phylogenetic) including turnover and nestedness components
• Reproducing or extending the statistical analysis from the associated study using the provided R scripts

Strengths

• Dataset size of 235.1 MB suggests a substantial amount of processed community-level data.
• Includes companion R scripts for both creating the community indices and performing the published analysis.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.
• The underlying species occurrence data are not available, preventing reconstruction or validation of the aggregation process.

Provenance

Source

BAPTISTE BONGIBAULT via figshare.

Collection Method

Data were aggregated from undisclosed species occurrence records to create community-level indices for 1 km² grids.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 09:41:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Covers a regional-scale study area, but the specific region is not stated.