Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature

Data and code from Pigot et al 2025 Macroecological rules predict how biomass scales with species richness in nature.We are grateful to collaborators and staff who have contributed data, including the Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS), a National Capability, which is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council under the Core Capability Grant BBS/E/C/000J0200. The UK Breeding Bird Survey is a partnership jointly funded by the British Trust for Ornithology, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Joint Nature Conservation Committee, with fieldwork conducted by volunteers. Data on copepods were sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), which is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Earthworm data was collated as part of the ‘sWorm’ workshop, funded by sDiv (the Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (DFG FZT 118)). This study uses data for for diatoms, dinoflagellates and coccolithophores from The Atlantic Meridional Transect, provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre and funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council through its National Capability Long-term Single Centre Science Programme, Climate Linked Atlantic Sector Science (grant number NE/R015953/1).