Spatial pair-wise arthropod data including species-specific metrics, land-use and environmental drivers for all experimental plots (2008-2017)

Land-use intensification is considered a major driver of biodiversity loss. However, most evidence for land use effects come from space-for-time substitutions, comparing biodiversity in areas differing in current land use intensity. Despite their frequent use, the robustness of space-for-time substitutions in capturing temporal changes in biodiversity remains unclear. We compared spatial and temporal responses of plant and arthropod communities to changes in land-use intensity, using 150, ten-year time series from grasslands in three German regions (Schwäbische Alb, Hainich-Dün, Schorfheide-Chorin) from sampling years 2008-2018 (this dataset, 31921, 31924, 31925). This data set comprises the data used to calculate spatial diversity responses of arthropod-communities to land-use changes (all experimental plots 2008-2017).