Invertebrate Surveys from Vertebrate Exclusion Cages in Logged Forests of Borneo

Visual surveys of invertebrates to ordinal level, including counts of individuals killed by Cordyceps fungus, collected inside and outside experimental vertebrate exclusion cages. The dataset was created by Robert M. Ewers of Imperial College London as part of the SAFE research project on logging intensity in Sabah, Borneo. It contains 38 rows of data across 54 fields.

Use Cases

• Compare invertebrate community composition between control and vertebrate exclusion treatments.
• Analyze the relationship between logging intensity and invertebrate abundance based on plot IDs.
• Investigate the prevalence of Cordyceps fungal infections among surveyed invertebrates.
• Model spatial distribution of invertebrates using provided GPS coordinates and accuracy data.

Strengths

• Includes 38 data rows with detailed metadata for each survey event.
• Contains 54 fields covering taxonomic counts, experimental treatment, precise location, date, and time.
• Data is part of a structured research project (SAFE) with explicit methodology described.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown for the companion data tables on seedling survival and leaf herbivory.
• Column-level documentation is absent for many fields; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

SAFE research project, Imperial College London.

Collection Method

Visual surveys conducted inside and outside experimental vertebrate exclusion cages.

Geography

Sabah, Borneo.