Dataset: Buffer strips at small running waters in intense agricultural landscape keep away common farmland spider (Araneae) and ground beetle (Carabidae) species from the field border during summer, with potential consequences for beta diversity - results from pitfall trapping on forty arable fields.

The dataset contains the results from pitfall trapping arachnids and ground beetle species from a study on the effect of riparian buffer strips on the insect fauna from Bavaria. The study includes 4 regions, 40 fields, 4 field positions and three (Carabidae) or two (Arachnida) sampling periods, resulting All necessary information to replicate the analysis of the publication is included. The file data_Carabidae.csv contains the data for the ground beetles, data_Arachnida.csv for the arachnids, and the file sampling_periods.csv contains information on the trapping periods.