Investigating the resilience of termite communities to logging and climate change in Borneo

Description:
This project set out to quantify the tolerance of termite communities to climate change, or more specifically, temperature and humidity change, two climatic variables that have been hypothesised to drive species distributions (particularly for small ectotherms such as termites). The data presented here are the tolerances of termites to increasing temperatures, and decreasing humidities. The thermal data was recorded by inserting termites into individual glass vials, placing those sealed vials into a water bath, and increasing the temperature until they could no longer function. This temperature was recorded, and taken as CTmax (Critical Thermal Maximum), for each individual termite. These data can be found in the TemperatureData worksheet. The humidity data was recorded slightly differently. Groups of termites (of the same genus) were weighed and placed in one of two types of glass vial. Dessicated vials also contained silica gel (and a barrier to prevent termite interaction with the gel) which reduced the humidity to an average of 30%. Control vials did not contain any silica gel and had an average humidity of 85%. These vials were removed at one of 5 time points, and the termites were weighed again, and weight change was recorded. This weight change was attributed to water loss. The body water data was used to calculate the proportion of body mass that was water, for multiple termite genera. This was done so that percentage of body water lost could be calculated for the humidity experiment, rather than an absolute value of water loss (as termites vary in size, using absolute values would cause false conclusions).
Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Investigating the resilience of termite communities to logging and climate change in Borneo
XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here
Data worksheets: There are 3 data worksheets in this dataset:

Thermal tolerance data (Worksheet TemperatureData)
Dimensions: 1256 rows by 17 columns
Description: Thermal tolerance data of termites
Fields:

Nest_no: The unique nest (colony) number that each termite was taken from (Field type: ID)
Day: The day on which the experiment took place (Field type: ID)
Termite_no: The unique termite number, missing numbers are due to non-experimental deaths (Field type: ID)
Experiment: Whether it was the first or second experiment from the same colony (Field type: Replicate)
Family: The family of the termite (Field type: ID)
Genus: The genus of the termite (Field type: ID)
Species: The species (where known) of the termite (Field type: ID)
Name: The species (where known) of the termite (Field type: Taxa)
CTmax: The critical thermal maximum of the termite, or the temperature that it died at (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Sampling_zone: Sampling area, LFE corresponds to the area at the SAFE project, and OP is Oil Palm (Field type: Categorical)
Forest_type: Forest type sampled from within the sampling area, OG corresponds to Old Growth (or pristine) forest (Field type: Categorical)
Nest_type: The type of nest that the termite builds (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Nest_Layer: The layer within the forest that the nest is built (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Food_group: The food group that the termite belongs to, categorised using the latest literature (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Body: The level of sclerotisation of the termite (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Caste: Which behavioural caste the termite belonged to (Field type: Categorical Trait)

Humidity tolerance data (Worksheet HumidityData)
Dimensions: 169 rows by 16 columns
Description: Humidity tolerance data of 4 termite genera
Fields:

Nest_no: The unique nest (colony) number that the termites were taken from (Field type: ID)
Tube: The unique tube number that the termites were placed in (Field type: ID)
Taxa: The species (where known) of the termite (Field type: Taxa)
Time: The five time points that the tubes were removed at (Field type: Numeric)
Treatment: Whether the termites were placed in a control or desiccated tube (Field type: Categorical)
Initial: Weight of the group of termites at the start of the experiment (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Finish: Weight of group of termites when removed from experiment (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Percentage_lost: Proportion of body mass change (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Sampling_zone: Sampling area, LFE corresponds to the area at the SAFE project, and OP is Oil Palm (Field type: Categorical)
Forest_type: Forest type sampled from within the sampling area, OG corresponds to Old Growth (or pristine) forest (Field type: Categorical)
Food_group: The food group that the termite belongs to, categorised using the latest literature (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Body: The level of sclerotisation of the termite (Field type: Categorical Trait)
No_termites: Number of termites placed in the tube (Field type: Numeric)
No_dead: Number of termites that were dead at the point of the second weighing (Field type: Numeric)
Percentage_Dead: Percentage of termites that are dead at point of second weighing (Field type: Numeric)

Termite total body water data (Worksheet BodyWaterData)
Dimensions: 38 rows by 12 columns
Description: Data calculating the total body water of 4 termite genera,
this data was used in the humidity data to calculate the
percentage of body water lost during the experiment
Fields:

Nest_no: The unique nest (colony) number that the termites were taken from (Field type: ID)
Tray_no: The unique tray number that the termites were placed in (Field type: ID)
Genus: The species (where known) of the termite (Field type: Taxa)
Weight_start: Weight of the group of termites at the start of the experiment (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Weight_end: Weight of group of termites when removed from experiment (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Percentage: Percentage of body mass that is water (Field type: Numeric Trait)
Sampling_zone: Sampling area, LFE corresponds to the area at the SAFE project, and OP is Oil Palm (Field type: Categorical)
Forest_type: Forest type sampled from within the sampling area, OG corresponds to Old Growth (or pristine) forest (Field type: Categorical)
Food_group: The food group that the termite belongs to, categorised using the latest literature (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Body: The level of sclerotisation of the termite (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Caste: Which behavioural caste the termite belonged to (Field type: Categorical Trait)
Date range: 2016-02-01 to 2016-07-01
Latitudinal extent: 4.5000 to 5.0700
Longitudinal extent: 116.7500 to 117.8200
Taxonomic coverage: All taxon names are validated against the GBIF backbone taxonomy. If a dataset uses a synonym, the accepted usage is shown followed by the dataset usage in brackets. Taxa that cannot be validated, including new species and other unknown taxa, morphospecies, functional groups and taxonomic levels not used in the GBIF backbone are shown in square brackets.
Animalia - Arthropoda -  - Insecta -  -  - Isoptera -  -  -  -  - Homallotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Homallotermes
foraminifer] -  -  -  - Kalotermitidae -  -  -  -  - Glyptotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Glyptotermes sp.] -  -  -  - Rhinotermitidae -  -  -  -  - Coptotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Coptotermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Parrhinotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Parrhinotermes
pygmaeus] -  -  -  -  - Schedorhinotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Schedorhinotermes sarawakensis] -  -  -  -  -  - [Schedorhinotermes sp.] -  -  -  - Termitidae -  -  -  -  - Bulbitermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Bulbitermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Dicuspiditermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Dicuspiditermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Globitermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Globitermes
globosus] -  -  -  -  - Hospitalitermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Hospitalitermes
hospitalis] -  -  -  -  -  - [Hospitalitermes bicolour] -  -  -  -  - [Lacessitermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Longipeditermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Longipeditermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Macrotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Macrotermes
gilvus] -  -  -  -  - Microcerotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Microcerotermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Nasutitermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Nasutitermes havilandi] -  -  -  -  -  - [Nasutitermes sp.] -  -  -  -  - Odontotermes -  -  -  -  -  - [Odontotermes sp.]