Ferrenberg_etal._arthropod data.xlsx

This data set was collected to assess community assembly processes governing ground-dwelling arthropod community structure following tree mortality in a subalpine conifer forest. This study and data are presented in:<br>"Ferrenberg, S., Martinez, A. S., &amp; Faist, A. M. (<i>in press</i>). <b>Aboveground and belowground arthropod communities experience different relative influences of stochastic and deterministic assembly processes following disturbance</b>. <i>PeerJ</i>."<br>Data includes environmental variables (understory vegetation and soil properties) and two arthropod species matrices: aboveground (surface-active) and belowground (soil-dwelling) arthropod community data collected from each year of a 5-year chronosequence of tree mortality.<br>Aboveground arthropods were collected via pitfall traps, belowground arthropods were collected from soils placed in modified Winkler funnels. Tree mortality was due to a multi-year bark beetle epidemic in the Rocky Mountains, Boulder County, CO, USA. Arthropods were collected in the summer months of 2011 and sorted to morphospecies.