Data from: Temperature-dependent shifts in multiple tri-trophic defense interactions on black cherry

Many plants engage in tri-trophic interactions whereby plants provide
resources such as food or shelter to mutualists in exchange for protection
against herbivores and pathogens. Despite their ecological importance,
tri-trophic interactions are often context dependent, in which the
magnitude and outcome of the interaction can shift under different abiotic
and biotic conditions. Disentangling the effects of environmental factors,
such as temperature, on tri-trophic interactions is especially important
as temperature regimes shift under climate change, but few studies have
explored how abiotic shifts affect tri-trophic interactions across
multiple trophic groups in the same plant system. Here, we monitored 96
black cherry (Prunus serotina) seedlings for 10 weeks under ambient and
increased temperatures to explore the effects of temperature on
interactions across multiple trophic levels. Specifically, we explored the
effects of temperature on two different tri-trophic interactions between
black cherry and: (1) mutualistic leaf domatia-dwelling mites and leaf
fungi; and (2) arthropod predators and herbivores. We present two
datasets: one contains data on mites (count), leaf fungi (count of hyphae
along a transect), leaf domatia (domatia size in milimeters), and
extrafloral nectaries (count), collected at the end of the experiment from
a subset of 3 leaves per plant. The next contains data on herbivory
(proportion of leaves with evidence of herbivory on each plant), predator
abundance (count of predators seen each week), and plant size (height),
collected weekly over the 10 week experiment. We also present the code
used to process and analyze these datasets, with the results presented in
our main manuscript "Temperature-dependent shifts in multiple
tri-trophic defense interactions on black cherry."