Supplementary Data for Riparian Ground Beetle Diversity and River Flow Study

Supplementary information files for the article 'Fly or Dry? River flow and dispersal mode drive cross‐channel β diversity in riparian zones' by Kieran Gething, published on figshare under CC BY 4.0. The files, totaling 819.5 KB in PDF format, support a study on how river flow permanence and arthropod flight ability affect community connectivity in riparian zones.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the relationship between river flow permanence and cross-channel community dissimilarity based on the study's methodology.
• Comparing beta diversity patterns between flying and non-flying arthropod groups as described in the research.
• Investigating the role of water as a resource versus a barrier in structuring riparian communities, a key finding mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Dataset is directly linked to a peer-reviewed scientific article, providing methodological context.
• Files are openly licensed under CC BY 4.0, permitting reuse with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• The 819.5 KB size indicates a limited scope, likely containing supplementary figures, tables, or methods rather than a primary data table.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Kieran Gething.

Collection Method

Data collection involved repeated sampling of riparian zones along rivers with varying flow permanence, as described in the associated article.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not explicitly stated in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05 06 08:34:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not explicitly stated in the provided metadata.