Publication Date:
2024-02-16
Description:
This data set contains 67 quantitative plant-pollinator networks consisting of 268 observational hours and 4380 plant-pollinator interactions, which were recorded along a 3.4 km elevational gradient at Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania). The data set was analysed in Classen et al. (accepted; Status: 09.01.2020). Ecology and Evolution. Details on how the data were sampled are given in this publication. In a nutshell, only interactions between plants and insect pollinators (specifically: wild bees, non-bee aculeate wasps, symphyta, syrphid flies) are included. Each network consists of a minimum of 5 interactions (in most cases much more). One network contains the recordings of a 4-hour variable transect walk on a specific plot (study site). We recorded all events in which an insect pollinator touched the reproductive parts of a flower. Most of the pollinators were caught with sweep nets and identified to species or morpho species level by well-trained taxonomists. Involved plant species were identified to species level in most cases (unidentified species are marked as such). Each plot was visited up to 7 times.
Keywords:
Classen et al., 2020; Classified & identified, see reference Classen et al., 2020; Counted; DATE/TIME; ecological network; elevational gradient; Event label; Family; Group; Habitat; Individual code; Investigator; KiLi; KiLi_cof3; KiLi_fer0; KiLi_flm1; KiLi_foc1; KiLi_fpd2; KiLi_fpo1; KiLi_gra1; KiLi_gra2; KiLi_gra3; KiLi_gra4; KiLi_gra5; KiLi_hel1; KiLi_hel2; KiLi_hel3; KiLi_hel4; KiLi_hom4; KiLi_mai1; KiLi_sav4; Kilimanjaro; Kilimanjaro Research Group; Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania; Network; Number; Order; Plant; plant-polliantor interactions; plant-pollinator; Plot; pollination; Pollinator; Reference/source; Taxonomic resolution, plant; Taxonomic resolution, pollinator
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 14297 data points
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