Manipulated Animal Community Database

• Main Author: Supp, Sarah
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2014
• Subjects: 60102 Bioinformatics; FOS Computer and information sciences; Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.969831.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Manipulated_Animal_Community_Database/969831/1

6,698 records indicated the presence and abundance of animal species, including representatives across trophic groups and size classes documented at 254 sites throughout the world, encompassing a variety of habitats. We accessed peer-reviewed articles, government publications, and theses that were freely available with the Utah State University library subscription and were published in English. We extracted data from articles that reported species-level abundance for a control community and at least one manipulated community. The data here represent a single data point each for the control treatment and the manipulated treatment(s) in each study. Data came from a wide variety of sites including artificial experiments (i.e., caged exclosures, habitat modules, nutrient addition) and human-mediated “natural” experiments (e.g., wildfire or controlled burn, logging, grazed plots, pollution). Sites represent all continents except Antarctica, and widely varying terrestrial animal groups (arachnid, insect, herpetofauna [reptiles and amphibians], mammal, and bird).