123 ant species provide trait data for workers across large-scale climatic and soil nutrient gradients. Lily Leahy authored this dataset to test whether a fast-slow economic spectrum explains variation in ant ecological strategies. The dataset was last updated on May 8, 2026.
Use Cases
- Modeling colony-level resource investment strategies based on worker trait measurements.
- Analyzing phylogenetic conservation of ecological strategies across ant subfamilies and genera.
- Testing correlations between environmental gradients and worker nitrogen:phosphorus ratios.
- Comparing fast-slow economic continuum principles between ants and plants.
Strengths
- Includes trait data from 123 ant species.
- Samples across large-scale climatic and soil nutrient gradients.
- Contains phylogenetic analyses revealing subfamily and genus-level trait conservation.
- Licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for open reuse.
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 or taxonomic bias inherent to the sampling.
Provenance
- Source
- figshare
- Collection Method
- Trait measurements from ant workers collected across environmental gradients.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-08 06:22:14; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Samples collected across large-scale climatic gradients; specific geography unknown.