Below-ground pitfall traps for standardised monitoring of soil mesofauna: Design and comparison to Berlese/Tullgren funnels

The attached CSV file supports the article Below-ground pitfall traps for standardised monitoring of soil mesofauna: Design and comparison to Berlese/Tullgren funnels (Pedobiologia, Volume 101, 2023, 150911, ISSN 0031-4056, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedobi.2023.150911) relative to its comparison part. It presents the specimen count of the deployed pitfall traps and Berlese/Tullgren extractions across five environments at different positions along transects.
The attached stl file is the blueprint for the 3d printable trap connector described and referenced in the same article. , The dataset was generated by identifying and counting the specimens collected in pitfall traps or Berlese extractions across five different environments along 5 paired positions across a transect. The traps were deployed and the cores were collected in Norfolk, UK, in June 2021., , # Below-ground pitfall traps for standardised monitoring of soil mesofauna: Design and comparison to Berlese/Tullgren funnels

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.x95x69prc](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.x95x69prc)

The database contains an abundance matrix of soil invertebrates collected with two different methods and across five environments.

## Description of the data and file structure

The dataset contains a column \"Sampling\" indicating whether the specimens were collected with pitfall traps or Berlese/Tullgren extractions; a column \"Environment\" indicating the environment where the samples were collected; a column (\"Transect position\") indicating the paired position across the transect the two sets of samples (pitfall traps and Berlese/Tullgren extractions) were collected. The other columns represent species (for springtails) or clades (for other taxa) and the cells contain individual counts.

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The dataset supports the comparison section of the Journal ar...