Data for "Species interactions determine the importance of response diversity for community stability to pulse disturbances"

Data for "Species interactions determine the importance of response diversity for community stability to pulse disturbances"by Charlotte Kunze, Owen L. Petchey, Shymaolina Ghosh, and Helmut Hillebrand (2025): https://doi.org/10.22541/au.174498373.31851247/v1Meta-Analysis data should be stored in a folder named 'Data'.MethodsThe first data (Multistab_species_data_repro) set contains all species-specific effect sizes of the original meta-analysis (Hillebrand & Kunze, 2020): The second dataset (MetaMultistab_since2017_revised) contains the updated dataset using the renewed Web Of Science search string (since 2017).All dataset contain the effect size between a control and a disturbed treatment for 128 experiments used to analyse the relationship between response diversity and community stability. A full description of the methods is in the paper associated to this manuscript. The data contains three sheets:meta contains all metadata to the studiesspecies data gives species-specific response to disturbance and controlabbreviations gives all column details:case.IDis a unique identifier for each experiments. Appendix S2 at the paper contains full documentation for each of the experiments.study.IDis a unique identifier for each study.refreference - Appendix S2 at the paper contains full documentation for each of the experiments.spec.infinformation on species or taxa levelorganismorganism typesystemmarine, freshwater or terrestrialfieldfield or mesocosmlatLatitude of the experimentlongLongtitude of the experimentdifferentiationdifferentiation between the experiments in one studydurationtime span of the expeirmenttime unitdayssamplsamplings conducted in the experimentunits_replicatesis the number of replicates in the experimentresp.catcategorizes the response variable as either biomass, abundance.Dayday of the experiment, with 0 being the pre-distrubance day.sourceRelative duration within the experiment, i.e., normalizing the day of the experiment to the duration of the experiment, such that 1 is the final sampling date.funcfunctional responsespeciesspecies namespecies_specificationspecification on species, i.e. plant or vascular plantSTARTindicates start pointRESISTindicates resistanceRESILindicates resilience time pontsRECOVindicates recovery timeCon.MMean of species response in controlCon.SDSD of species response in controlCon.SESE of species response in controlCon.Nnumber of replicates in controlDist.MMean of species response in disturbed treatmentDist.SDSD of species response in disturbed treatmentDIST.SESE of species response in disturbed treatmentDist.Nnumber of replicates in disturbed treatmentLRRone effect size of the disturbance, in most cases a log-response ratio. Again, for detauls see the paper's method sectionvar.lrris the sampling variance of the effect sizes, if blank it could not be derived from the primary literature.