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/v1
Meta-Analysis data should be stored in a folder named 'Data'.
Methods
The 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 studies
species data gives species-specific response to disturbance and control
abbreviations gives all column details:

case.ID
is a unique identifier for each experiments. Appendix S2 at the paper contains full documentation for each of the experiments.
study.ID
is a unique identifier for each study.
ref
reference - Appendix S2 at the paper contains full documentation for each of the experiments.
spec.inf
information on species or taxa level
organism
organism type
system
marine, freshwater or terrestrial
field
field or mesocosm
lat
Latitude of the experiment
long
Longtitude of the experiment
differentiation
differentiation between the experiments in one study
duration
time span of the expeirment
time unit
days
sampl
samplings conducted in the experiment
units_replicates
is the number of replicates in the experiment
resp.cat
categorizes the response variable as either biomass, abundance.
Day
day of the experiment, with 0 being the pre-distrubance day.
source
Relative 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.
func
functional response
species
species name
species_specification
specification on species, i.e. plant or vascular plant
START
indicates start point
RESIST
indicates resistance
RESIL
indicates resilience time ponts
RECOV
indicates recovery time
Con.M
Mean of species response in control
Con.SD
SD of species response in control
Con.SE
SE of species response in control
Con.N
number of replicates in control
Dist.M
Mean of species response in disturbed treatment
Dist.SD
SD of species response in disturbed treatment
DIST.SE
SE of species response in disturbed treatment
Dist.N
number of replicates in disturbed treatment
LRR
one effect size of the disturbance, in most cases a log-response ratio. Again, for detauls see the paper's method section
var.lrr
is the sampling variance of the effect sizes, if blank it could not be derived from the primary literature.