Replication data for: Heat tolerance decreases and cold tolerance increases with elevation for a species-rich insect family on a tropical volcano

<p>These are the data, phylogenetic trees, and code for our analysis of the change in thermal tolerance with elevation for the Staphylinidae community on Volcan Cacao, in Área de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica. We set out to determine how heat and cold tolerance, as well as thermal tolerance breadth (via a statistical proxy) changed with elevation for this beetle community, and to contextualize the heat tolerance values against environmental temperatures and against other insect heat tolerance data from one of the most popular thermal tolerance databases in the literature. We found that heat tolerance and thermal breadth decreased with elevation while cold tolerances slightly increased, all of which were according to theory. These results (particularly heat tolerances), however, went against the patterns previously described for ectotherms using this popular thermal tolerance database.</p><p>This is a replication dataset for the second chapter of my PhD thesis. The chapter is under review for publication, so this dataset will be associated as a supplementary material for the paper. Here you will find thermal tolerance data for Costa Rican beetles, and all associated supporting data files, code, and prose that make up the manuscript.</p>