Temporal dynamics of bark and wood functional traits in determining invertebrate communities during coarse and fine woody debris decomposition

Plant functional traits act as environmental filters, influencing invertebrate community assembly during decomposition processes and thus biogeochemical cycling. Within a plant, bark and wood exhibit distinct functional trait characteristics, and these traits further vary among different sizes of deadwood, such as coarse woody debris (CWD) and fine woody debris (FWD), as well as different decomposition stages. Despite this, studies on deadwood biodiversity and decomposition often ignore differences between bark and wood. We examined how bark and wood functional traits structure invertebrate communities during deadwood decomposition using a 42-month experiment with 41 woody species in subtropical forests. We hypothesized that i) invertebrate abundance and diversity are higher for resource-acquisitive traits than for resource-conservative traits; ii) bark traits are more important for FWD and wood traits are more important for CWD in determining invertebrate communities, and iii) the effe..., , # Data from: Temporal dynamics of bark and wood functional traits in determining invertebrate communities during coarse and fine woody debris decomposition

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.dz08kps9k](10.5061/dryad.dz08kps9k)

## Description of the data and file structure

### Files and variables

#### File: Ci_et_al_dataset.xlsx

**Description:** 

This dataset includes two sheets: (1) Fauna, documenting temporal records of invertebrate abundance (excluding termites and ants ) and richness, and  mass loss percentages across sampling intervals, and (2) Trait, containing bark and wood functional traits of coarse woody debris (CWD) and fine woody debris (FWD), including wood density, carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) content, wood dry matter content, bark thickness, bark dry matter content, and bark C, N, and P concentrations.

#### Variables

Column headers of the dataset of this data (Column headers specify measured variables with units in parentheses): 

#### Fauna sheet

* speci...,