Microclimate And The Development Rate Of Mosquito Vectors

<b>Description: </b>This data sets includes microclimate data, mosquito development rate and mosquito wing size measurements collected from primary forest, logged forest and oil palm plantations. Microclimate data was recorded using Ibutton data loggers which measured soil temeprature at given sample sites. All mosquito eggs collected were reared under field conditions. Each mosquito sample was monitored daily in order to record the proportion emerging at each developemnt stage (larva, pupa and adult) along with the numebr of transition days between each development stage. Adult wing length (of each adult mosquito collected) was used as a simple proxy to measure adult vectorial capacity. <b>Project: </b>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <b>The impact of altered forest microclimate on the development rate of mosquito vectors</b><b>XML metadata: </b>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here<b>Files: </b>This consists of 1 file: template_PsomosMosquitoes.xlsx<b>template_PsomosMosquitoes.xlsx</b>This file contains dataset metadata and 3 data tables:<b>Soil temperature</b> (described in worksheet Soiltemp)Description: Datalogger records of soil temperature time series as sample sitesNumber of fields: 4Number of data rows: 875Fields: <b>Site</b>: SAFE Project sample site (Field type: Location)<b>Day</b>: Day of measurement; each site had records collected over seven days (Field type: Numeric)<b>Time</b>: Time of measurement (Field type: Time)<b>Soil Temperature</b>: Soil temperature (Field type: Numeric)<b>Mosquito size</b> (described in worksheet Mosquito_wing_length)Description: Wing measurements on individual mosquitoesNumber of fields: 3Number of data rows: 119Fields: <b>Site</b>: SAFE Project sample site (Field type: Location)<b>SampleNumber</b>: Each replicate within a site represents a different mosquito that was measured (Field type: Replicate)<b>WingSize</b>: Adult mosquito wing length (Field type: Numeric Trait)<b>Mosquito life history stages</b> (described in worksheet Development_data)Description: Abundance and time frame for mosquito developmentNumber of fields: 8Number of data rows: 26Fields: <b>Site</b>: SAFE Project sample site (Field type: Location)<b>Eggs</b>: Number eggs (Field type: Abundance)<b>Larvae</b>: Number larvae (Field type: Abundance)<b>Pupae</b>: Number pupae (Field type: Abundance)<b>Adults</b>: Number adults (Field type: Abundance)<b>egg-larvae</b>: Number of days to develop from egg to larvae (Field type: Numeric Trait)<b>larvae-pupae</b>: Number of days to develop from larvae to pupae (Field type: Numeric Trait)<b>pupae-adult</b>: Number of days to develop from pupae to adult (Field type: Numeric Trait)<b>Date range: </b>2015-05-01 to 2015-07-13<b>Latitudinal extent: </b>4.6532 to 4.7520<b>Longitudinal extent: </b>116.9635 to 117.5932<b>Taxonomic coverage: </b><br> 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<br> - Arthropoda<br> - - Insecta<br> - - - Diptera<br> - - - - Culicidae<br>