Mass-lenght allometry database
We compiled a database containing information on the relationships between mass and length of individuals from six main groups of soil invertebrate arthropods: arachnida, chilopoda, diplopoda, entognatha, insecta and isopoda (see Table S1). This information was obtained both from the literature and...
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| Tipo de recurso: | conjunto de datos |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/170286 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/170286 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_635 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24962 Arthropoda allometry |
| Sumario: | We compiled a database containing information on the relationships between mass and length of individuals from six main groups of soil invertebrate arthropods: arachnida, chilopoda, diplopoda, entognatha, insecta and isopoda (see Table S1). This information was obtained both from the literature and from our own field sampling (see Appendix S2, Table S2). All studies included in the database estimated length as the total body length of the arthropods without appendages, which according to how it is measured, it is a homologous trait across all the studied taxa (Fig. 1). In total, the database included 283 mass-length relationships (equations hereafter) from 45 georeferenced sites located all over the world, from the Equator to high latitudes, and from many disparate biomes (Fig. 2, see Table S3). The most intensely sampled arthropods were arachnida (112 equations) and insecta (102 equations) (see Table S2). Because sample size usually affects the accuracy of the estimates, we included in the database only those equations that included information on sample size, of which only 66% contained information on the standard errors of the a and b estimates. |
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