Time changes everything: A multispecies analyses of temporal patterns in evaporative water loss - data

The dataset was analysed in the manuscript “Žagar A., Carretero, M.A., de Groot M. (accepted) Time changes everything: A multispecies analyses of temporal patterns in evaporative water loss. Oecologia”

The dataset consisted out of water loss by 23 populations of lizards from 16 different species and three families which was compiled from several different studies. All studies used the same standardized protocols. During the experiment every hour for 12 hours, the body weight of the lizard was measured (in total 13 measurements per lizard). The species name (SP), the snout-vent length of the animal (SVL, in millimetres), altitude (m a.s.l.), sampling location (site name, latitude and longitude), weight (in grams), sex (M=male, F=female), code of the individual lizard (CODE), date of experiment (DATE_H) and the reference of the study were noted down (full references are available in the manuscript). Per column the instantaneous water loss values (EWLi) were recorded per hour measured. First hour was EWLi8, second hour was EWLi9, etc. The EWLi was calculated by the weight minus the weight in the next hour divided by the weight multiplied by 100 ((Wn – Wn+1 / Wn) × 100).