Height and phytotelm size affect the invertebrate communities of epiphytic bromeliads in the Amazon rainforest
Data files
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Data_BromInverts_XB2018-25-0268-EEN.csv
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Abstract
Spreadsheet of bromeliad measurements and invertebrate data from bromeliad phytotelmata. Collected in 2018 in San José de Payamino (Orellana), Ecuador. This data was collected under the access to genetic resources research permits MAE-DNB-CM-2016-0045 and MAE-DNB-CM-2019-0121 granted by the Ministry of the Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition of Ecuador (Ministerio de Ambiente Agua y Transición Ecológica, MAATE).
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.41ns1rnt9
Description of the data and file structure
Bromeliads (Aechmea hoppii and A. nidularioides) were accessed using double-rope canopy techniques in San José de Payamino (Orellana), Ecuador, part of the Amazon rainforest. Various measurements related to the position of the bromeliad while still on the tree (specified in the associated publication), previous to bagging and removing the plant for further processing and to collect individual invertebrates from it. Invertebrates were then classified as morphospecies within orders by some of the coauthors at the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Quito), Ecuador. Individuals were counted and deposited in Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad.
Files and variables
File: Data_BromInverts_XB2018-25-0268-EEN.csv
Description: Measurements of bromeliads and the invertebrate individuals found associated to them.
Variables
- Bromeliad name: unique code given to each bromeliad.
- Height above ground (m): height on the tree at which the bromeliad was collected.
- pH: pH taken from the central phytotelm of the bromeliad prior to collection.
- Phytotelm temperature (C): temperature read by the pH meter.
- Phytotelm volume (ml): the maximum amount of water that the whole bromeliad can hold.
- Longest leaf (cm): the length of the longest leaf of the bromeliad.
- Number of leaves: the number of leaves on the bromeliad.
- Base circumference (cm): the circumference at the base of the bromeliad rosette.
- MASL: meters above sea level
- Forest type: (1) primary and (2) secondary forest.
- Season (collection): the sampling season (1/2) during which the bromeliads were collected.
- Tree individual: a letter to annotate which bromeliads were found on the same individual tree as each other. These are not species – rather, the same letter for two bromeliads simply denotes that they were collected from the same individual tree as each other.
Code/software
The file is a CSV.