Developing together: The elementome and biogeochemical niche of the mutualistic occupants of a fig microcosm

In brood-site pollination mutualisms, where flowers provide nutrition and shelter to pollinator offspring in exchange for pollination, resource allocation to inflorescences is directly related to the fitness of plants and pollinators. We determine resource allocation to components of an enclosed monoecious Ficus inflorescence or syconium that, besides seeds, also houses and provides nutrition to pollinator wasp offspring, each developing within individual uniovulate galled flowers. Along with biomass, we determine elemental concentrations as parameters of resource allocation. For the first time, we apply the biogeochemical niche (BN) concept to a mutualism and construct the BN of syconial occupants using the elementomes and stoichiometric ratios of plant, seed, and pollinator tissue. We predicted that BNs of seeds and galls containing wasps should differ due to differences in tissue type and to facilitate their co-development. We also measure trophic stoichiometric ratios (TSRs) for var..., , # Developing together: The elementome and biogeochemical niche of the mutualistic occupants of a fig microcosm

**Description:** This file provides details of the datasets accompanying the research article \"Developing together: The elementome and biogeochemical niche of the mutualistic occupants of a fig microcosm\".

**Methods of data collection:** Details included in the research article

**Files included:** The dataset includes three .csv files

(I) **Biomass_allocation_data.csv**, collected between February and March 2021, has data on the number and mass of syconial occupants collected from two trees. The columns in the dataset are:

* \"Tree_id\"=Tree identity
* \"Fig_no\"=Fig syconium
* \"Bunch_no\"=Bunch number
* \"Seeds_no\"=Total number of seeds
* \"Galls_no\"=Total number of pollinator galls
* \"Vacant_flo_no\"=Number of unoccupied or vacant flowers
* \"FP_no\"=Number of female pollinators
* \"MP_no\"=Number of male pollinators
* \"Wall_mass\"=Mass of syconial wall
* \"Seeds_mass\"=Total...,