Leaf Litter Ant Community Composition Across Forest Disturbance Types

430 rows of ant community data collected as part of the SAFE research project. The dataset includes a site x species matrix with abundance counts for genera like Diacamma and Pheidole across two forest types. It was authored by Ross Gray of Imperial College London.

Use Cases

• Modeling species abundance distributions based on forest type and sampling metadata.
• Analyzing community composition shifts across a disturbance gradient using the site x species matrix.
• Studying interspecific competition among ant genera using co-occurrence and abundance data.

Strengths

• Includes 430 rows of observational data.
• Contains abundance counts for over 20 distinct ant genera.
• Metadata describes specific fields like Forest Type, Site, Time, and Point.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

SAFE research project, Imperial College London

Collection Method

Field sampling of leaf litter ant communities.

Geography

Tropical forest sites (likely in Southeast Asia, based on SAFE project context).