Data for: Arthropod communities on young vegetated roofs are more similar to each other than to communities at ground level

This dataset comprises of arthropods collected with a D-vac
vacuum sampling device from vegetated roofs and ground level habitats with
low-growing open vegetation. Sampling was conducted during three
consecutive years (2013, 2014 and 2015) at seven sampling sites
distributed in the capital area of Finland. Each site included one
vegetated roof and two closest ground level open habitats for the
roof. Samples were collected twice in a growing season, in June
and in August/September. Arthropods were identified using DNA
metabarcoding technique. The
mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit
I gene (COI) was used as a marker in molecular identification in
metabarcoding of arthropod samples and amplified with two
non-overlapping complementary primer pairs (Leray and ANML). The
dual tag indexed library were sequenced at the Helsinki
Functional Genomics Unit (FuGU) in one Illumina MiSeq v3 300bp run.