Mottl-Ecosphere-TropicalArborealAnts_TreeFelling_PNG2019

Datafile containing information about arboreal ants from succession series in the montane tropical forest in Papua New Guinea. Data were obtained using felling of all trees with DBH>5 and collection of all foragers and nests. In total, 9 plot of 0.1ha in 3 successional stages were sampled. List AllRecords contains information about all tree and presence/absence information of ant species. In addition, there is information about environmental variables for each tree. List NestRecords contains information about the number of ant nests of each ant species in each tree and environmental variables linked to them.