Leaf conditions affect the landing success of fallen tropical ants

Falling to the ground is hazardous for arboreal ants. Workers of six ant species dropped onto leaves had the lowest landing success on inclined and wet leaves; epiphyll presence and ant body size had no effect. Consequently, landing on leaves in wet forests apparently is challenging for arboreal ants., , # Leaf conditions affect the landing success of fallen tropical ants

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.t4b8gtjf8](10.5061/dryad.t4b8gtjf8)

## Description of the data and file structure

Data for 'Leaf conditions affect the landing success of fallen tropical ants'
### Files and variables

#### File: antdrop_trialdata.csv

**Description:** 

##### Variables

* species: species of ant used in trial
* colony: colony code for ant used in trial
* ant_id: unique ID code of ant used in trial; inherently contains colony ID code
* temp_c: ambient temperature in Celsius
* headwidth_mm: head width of ant in millimeters for C. atratus
* dry_wgt_g: dry weight of ant in grams
* T1_0degree_clean_dry: experimental scenario 1: leaf at 0 degrees, clean, and dry
* T2_45degree_clean_dry: experimental scenario 2: leaf at 45 degrees, clean, dry
* T3_0degree_clean_wet: experimental scenario 3: leaf at 0 degrees, clean, wet
* T4_45degree_clean_wet: experimental scenario 4: leaf at 45 degrees, clean, wet
* T5_0degre...,