Ant community dynamics in the Big Thicket National Preserve of east Texas

The main data file is Pitfall_Data.csv. Each row of this data frame gives the abundance of one species at a given sampling date - site - station. If there were no ants captured for a given date - site - station then the "Ants?" field is given a zero. When multiple species were captured for a given date - site - station these are reported in separate rows. Site numbers correspond to those in the Site_Characteristics.csv data file. The Site_Data.csv file gives additional information about cases of missing observations in the pitfall data. This data frame indicates, for each date - site - station, whether the site was accessible for set-up, whether it was accessible to re-visit, and whether pitfalls were retrieved. This data frame also provides measurements of volumetric water content (VWC), which were collected in 2018 but not previous years. All metadata are described in the ReadMe file.