%0 Generic %A Supp, Sarah %D 2014 %T Manipulated Animal Community Database %U https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Manipulated_Animal_Community_Database/969831 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.969831.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/3156878 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/3156884 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/3156887 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/3156890 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/3156893 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/1429961 %K experiment %K community %K biodiversity %K composition %K manipulated %K ecology %K Bioinformatics %K Ecology %X

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).

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