Datasets used in analysis of "Forest vertical and horizontal temperature similarity drives arthropod communities in a managed temperate forest"

we set up temperature loggers and insect traps vertically (flight-interception traps) and horizontally (pitfall traps) in forests with experimental thinning and gap felling 8 years after the intervention. By metabarcoding, we identified ~10,600 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs) from 44 orders including ~2450 arthropods assigned to species in our 426 samples. Arthropod community similarity matrices were quantified along the Hill numbers accounting for rare to dominant species and under consideration of incomplete samples.Dataset "ns2025-04_Mueller_EC24-339-and-343_comb_COI_results" contains all recovered OTU species;Dataset "sp_matrix_arthropods" contains recovered OTU species limited to terrestrial arthropods;Dataset "env_finascale_final" contains environemntal variables including temperature metrics of each arthropod trap.