Manipulated Animal Community Database

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).

本数据集共收录6698条记录，用于表征全球254个调查点中记录的动物物种的存在与丰度，涵盖各营养类群与体型等级的类群代表，调查点涉及多种生境类型。数据来源包括经同行评议的期刊论文、政府出版物及学位论文，所有文献均通过犹他州立大学（Utah State University）图书馆订阅权限可免费获取，且均以英文发表。我们从同时报道了对照群落与至少一个干预群落的物种水平丰度数据的文献中提取所需信息。本数据集的每条记录分别对应单项研究中，对照处理与各干预处理各自的单个数据点。数据涵盖的调查点类型多样，包括人工控制实验（如笼式排除实验、生境模块实验、养分添加实验）以及人类活动介导的“自然”实验（如野火或受控火烧、伐木、放牧样地、污染场景）。调查点覆盖除南极洲外的所有大洲，涉及的陆生动物类群范围广泛，包括蛛形纲动物、昆虫、两栖爬行类（herpetofauna，即爬行动物与两栖动物）、哺乳动物与鸟类。