Data from: Disease refuge or ecological trap: location-specific performance of amphibian hotspot shelters

Artificial hotspot shelters have been developed as a conservation tool to
help frogs thermally escape the amphibian chytrid fungus, a pathogen
highly sensitive to elevated temperatures. To evaluate how these
structures perform under contrasting climatic conditions, we deployed
temperature loggers inside hotspot shelters and beneath wooden board
analogue retreats at two Australian field sites: a humid subtropical site
in Sydney (NSW) and a cool semi-arid site in Werribee (VIC). Hourly
temperatures were recorded throughout winter and used to quantify daily
microhabitat thermal regimes relevant to chytrid suppression and amphibian
physiology. The dataset presented here consists of daily site-level
summaries, including mean temperature, daily maxima and minima, and total
hours above biologically important thresholds (20 °C, 25 °C, 30 °C),
derived by averaging across all structures at each site. Ambient
weather variables from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology are not
included due to licensing restrictions, but full station metadata are
provided in the article’s supplementary materials.