Leaf conditions affect the landing success of fallen tropical ants
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antdrop_trialdata.csv
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README.md
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Abstract
Falling to the ground is hazardous for arboreal ants. Workers of six ant species dropped onto leaves had the lowest landing success on inclined and wet leaves; epiphyll presence and ant body size had no effect. Consequently, landing on leaves in wet forests apparently is challenging for arboreal ants.
Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.t4b8gtjf8
Description of the data and file structure
Data for 'Leaf conditions affect the landing success of fallen tropical ants'
Files and variables
File: antdrop_trialdata.csv
Description:
Variables
- species: species of ant used in trial
- colony: colony code for ant used in trial
- ant_id: unique ID code of ant used in trial; inherently contains colony ID code
- temp_c: ambient temperature in Celsius
- headwidth_mm: head width of ant in millimeters for C. atratus
- dry_wgt_g: dry weight of ant in grams
- T1_0degree_clean_dry: experimental scenario 1: leaf at 0 degrees, clean, and dry
- T2_45degree_clean_dry: experimental scenario 2: leaf at 45 degrees, clean, dry
- T3_0degree_clean_wet: experimental scenario 3: leaf at 0 degrees, clean, wet
- T4_45degree_clean_wet: experimental scenario 4: leaf at 45 degrees, clean, wet
- T5_0degree_lichen_dry: experimental scenario 5: leaf at 0 degrees, epiphylls present, dry
- T6_45degree_lichen_dry: experimental scenario 6: leaf at 45 degrees, epiphylls present, dry
- T7_0degree_lichen_wet: experimental scenario 7: leaf at 0 degrees, epiphylls present, wet
- T8_45degree_lichen_wet: experimental scenario 8: leaf at 45 degrees, epiphylls present, wet