Dung Beetle Reproduction and Development Under Thermal Stress

Experimental data from 2026 by Zinat Jahan Chowdhury on the effects of increased nest temperatures on two dung beetle species. The dataset includes metrics such as brood count, success rate, and progeny development. It is a 6.3 MB collection of files in RMD, PNG, and DOCX formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of temperature on dung burial rates based on experimental offsets.
• Predicting brood production success under thermal stress based on recorded success rates.
• Analyzing the relationship between nest temperature and progeny development metrics like pronotum width and body weight.

Strengths

• Experimental design includes a controlled baseline temperature and offsets up to +5°C.
• Measures multiple response variables: brood construction, success rate, and F2 progeny development.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Zinat Jahan Chowdhury via figshare

Collection Method

Experimental study recording brood construction, success rate, and progeny development under controlled temperature conditions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-11 11:55:12; freshness should be verified.