Experimental Thermal Tolerance Data for Six Cave Beetle Species Under Varying Humidity

Experimental data from a 2026 study evaluating the combined effects of warming and reduced humidity on subterranean beetles. The dataset includes upper thermal tolerance (LT₅₀) measurements for six Leptodirini beetle species from the Pyrenees, tested under two humidity conditions across four temperatures. It was authored by Jorge Plaza-Buendía and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling climate change vulnerability based on combined heat and desiccation stress.
• Comparing thermal safety margins across species with different degrees of troglomorphism.
• Projecting future habitat suitability under climate scenarios using experimental LT₅₀ values.

Strengths

• Dataset size is 9.2 GB, suggesting a medium-scale collection of raw or processed experimental data.
• Includes experimentally derived LT₅₀ values for six species under controlled humidity and temperature conditions.
• Explicitly links experimental results to future climate projections for thermal safety margins.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Pyrenean mountain range source.

Provenance

Source

Jorge Plaza-Buendía via figshare

Collection Method

Experimental estimation of upper thermal tolerance (LT₅₀) under controlled laboratory conditions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 17:24:54; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Pyrenean mountain range, northern Spain