Arthropod Communities in Desert Ecosystems of Alula County, Saudi Arabia

Arthropod Communities in Desert Ecosystems of Alula County, Saudi ArabiaRuan van Mazijk*, Steven McGregor, Robbert Duker, Carly Butynski, Maurice Schutgens, Miren Schleicher, Max D. Graham, Shauna K. Rees, Abdelsamad Aldabaa, Ahmed H. Mohamed, Sami D. Almalki, Benjamin P. Y.-H. Lee* Corresponding author (email: [e-mail])Data for short communication submitted to Zoology in the Middle EastIn addition to the metadata below, the spreadsheet 'Arthropod study results.xlsx’ contains a metadata sheet.File: ‘Arthropod study results.xlsx’• Raw counts of numbers of individuals, taxonomic identifications and functional groupings for all morphospecies of arthropod collected from pitfall traps in this project.• Each row in this spreadsheet corresponds to one pitfall trap's specimens for a given morphospecies, such that there are multiple rows per pitfall trap.Sub-folder: Arthropod micrographs• This sub-folder contains all micrograph imagery files for arthropod specimens collected from pitfall traps.• Micrographs are arranged in the following folder structure:> [Taxonomic Class] (e.g. ‘Insecta’) > [Taxonomic Order] (e.g. ‘Hymenoptera’) > [Taxonomic Family] (if applicable) (e.g. ‘Formicidae’) > [Morphospecies] (e.g. ‘Formicidae MS 1’) > [Micrograph JPEGS] (e.g. ‘ATW_8_2_a_Insecta_Hymenoptera_Formicidae_n=1.jpeg’)• Micrograph file names contain the following information, separated by underscores: ‘[Habitat type]_[Site no.]_[Pitfall trap no.]_[Micrograph no.]_[Class]_[Order]_[Family (if applicable)]_[No. individuals of a given morphospecies in view].jpeg’