Dung decomposition experiment

The first excel sheet ("all data") is an overview of the dung decomposition experiment containing the relative weight and nutrient (C, N and P) loss together with C, N and P release rates of dung from different herbviore species ("bf" is buffalo, "gf" is giraffe, "rb" is reedbuck, "wb" is waterbuck, "wh" is warthog and "wl" is wildebeest) collected after 41 or 167 days. Dung was placed in dung bags with a fine (mesh.size =1) or coarse (mesh.size = 2) mesh, whereby the latter allowed acces of macrofauna to the dung. Signs of termite and/or dung beetle attack were recorded in the "termites" and "dungbeetles" columns, which were combined to form the "soil.fauna" column. The second excel sheet ("t=0") contains a table with weight and nutrient contents of the dung at the start of the experiment.