IMAS Metadata Catalogue
Code and data for: The effect of seabird presence and seasonality on ground-active spider communities across temperate islands
We investigated the effects of seabird presence and seasonality on ground-active spider community structure (activity-density, family-level richness, age class and sex structure) and composition at the family-level across five short-tailed shearwater breeding islands around south-eastern Tasmania, Australia. Using 75 pitfall traps (15 per island), spiders were collected inside, near and outside seabird colonies on each island, at five different stages of the short-tailed shearwater breeding cycle over a year. 3. Pitfall traps were deployed for a total of 2,674 days, capturing 1,592 spiders from 26 families with Linyphiidae and Lycosidae the most common.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-11-03
- Citation identifier
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doi:10.25959/CSCA-B214
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-11-15
- Citation identifier
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ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
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https://doi.org/10.25959/CSCA-B214
Principal investigator
- Credit
- National Geographic Society (WW-222R-17)
- Credit
- Ecological Society of Australia through the Holsworth Wildlife Endowment (RT.114606)
- Credit
- Australian Academy of Science through the Margaret Middleton Fund for Endangered Australian Native Vertebrate Animals (RT.114646)
- Status
- complete
Point of contact
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) - Pascoe, Penelope
IMAS - Hobart
Private Bag 129
Hobart
Tasmania
7001
Australia
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- Topic category
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- Biota
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2020-02-25 0021-03-16
- Maintenance and update frequency
- none-planned
Resource format
- Date
- Keywords (Theme)
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- Araneae
- community composition
- biodiversity assessment
- Keywords (Taxon)
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- Araneae
- Ardenna tenuirostris
- NASA/GCMD Keywords, Version 8.5
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- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES | ARTHROPODS | CHELICERATES | ARACHNIDS
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | BIRDS
- EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS | ISLANDS
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The data described in this record are the intellectual property of the University of Tasmania through the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies.
Resource constraints
- Linkage
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http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/4.0/88x31.png
License Graphic
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Website
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
License Text
- Other constraints
- Cite data as: Pascoe, P. (2022). Code and data for: The effect of seabird presence and seasonality on ground-active spider communities across temperate islands [Data set]. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS). https://doi.org/10.25959/CSCA-B214
- Other constraints
- Please contact the researcher when accessing the dataset.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Supplemental Information
- Pascoe P. P., Houghton M., Jones H. P, Weldrick C., Trebilco R & Shaw, J. D. (2022) The effect of seabird presence and seasonality on ground-active spider communities across temperate islands. Ecology and Evolution
Distribution Information
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CSV, Rmd
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CSV, Rmd
- OnLine resource
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DATA ACCESS - spider community data [.CSV direct download]
- OnLine resource
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DATA ACCESS - R code
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Five invertebrate pitfall traps were deployed at each location (n = 15 per island). Traps were set at approximately 5 m intervals and consisted of a 7 cm diameter piece of polypipe inserted flush with the ground. A 200 ml plastic beaker was inserted flush with the polypipe and filled with 1 cm propylene glycol. We left traps set for 4-10 days depending on island accessibility (mean = 8.22 days) before collection. The short duration was chosen to minimise the chance of traps flooding from rain, and prevent the degradation of samples which were also being used for stable isotope analysis (see Pascoe et al., 2022). As further protection from flooding, traps were also placed under vegetation where possible to provide shelter from rain. The observed water levels in traps at collection indicated that trap flooding was rarely and issue. Pitfall trap contents were passed through 20 denier polyganza mesh to remove the propylene glycol and then covered with 70% ethanol for preservation. We repeated this process five times over a year, giving a total of 2674 trapping days (15 traps on five islands deployed five times for 4-10 days each deployment). Each sampling event was timed to coincide with a different season and stage of the short-tailed shearwater breeding cycle: 1. Autumn, March 2020 - pre-fledging; 2. Winter, June/July 2020 - start of vacant colony period; 3. Spring, September 2020 - end of vacant colony period; 4. Summer, December 2020 - incubation and 5. Autumn, March 2021 - pre-fledging.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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c99acf82-c118-4817-8abb-a4dcea9738a5
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/c99acf82-c118-4817-8abb-a4dcea9738a5
Point of truth URL of this metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2015-05-06T11:44:25
- Date info (Revision)
- 2015-05-06T11:44:25
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3:2018
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