README for data associated with the dissertation: Zooplankton species diversity in the temporary wetland system of the Savannah River Site, South Caroline, USA by Marcus Alexander Zokan README Authors: Andrew M. Kramer, Marcus A. Zokan This repository includes all the raw data and some derived data tables. These data may are included in the "Zooplankton Biodiversity Visualization Project" and may be viewed and parsed there prior to download. For any use of this data please cite the Data Dryad repository. Description of files: 1. Metadata.xlsx : Tabular listing of the variables and units used in each of the other data files. 2. SRS_data.md : Text version of Metadata.xlsx 3. SRSsurvey.xlsx : The main dataset with individual worksheets for various aspects of the data. Many of these sheets are saved as separate .csv files as listed below. 4. environmentalVars.csv : The environmental conditions recorded for each bay on each sampling occassion. Copy of the "Condition Data" worksheet in "SRSsurvey.xlsx" 5. interactionMatrix.R : The R code that produces "interactionMatrixDensity.csv" from zoopData.csv 6. interactionMatrixDensity.csv : This is a derivative table based on the individual samples in zoopData.csv 7. sampling_event.csv : This provides the sampling event (i.e. two week period) associated with each specific sampling date 8. samplingInfo.csv : This provides the qualitative information about each individual sample collected from a bay on each date. For example depth and vegetation. 9. SRS_Bay_Summary_Table : The summary information for each bay: mean temperature, conductivity, pH, days inundated, soil type, canopy cover and vegetation 10. SRS_Zoop_species_groups.csv : Description of higher taxonomic group for each species identified in the samples 11. zoopData.csv : The counts of individual species and volumes sampled for each analyzed sample from each bay on each date. Copy of the "Zooplankton Data" worksheet in "SRSsurvey.xlsx" 12. 'bay-data' : directory of data subsets for individual bays 13. 'heatmap_data-prep' : directory containing code and output for the species distribution and species cooccurence plots. The R script "zoovis-tables.R' uses 'interactionMatrixDensity.csv" as the input to produce these tables, which are then placed in the appropriate directories for figure drawing.