length_prey.csv

Data Set Owner(s):

João Custódio Fernandes Cardoso

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil

Post-Graduation student

Programa de Pós graduação em Ecologia e Conservação dos Recursos Naturais

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Rua Ceará SN

34-91204045

[e-mail]

Marcelo de Oliveira Gonzaga

Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil

Key words:

Arthropod

Sticky traps

Spider prey

Body length

Atlantic Forest

Riparian Forest

Geographic Reference:

South: 24° 15' 55"

West: 48° 24' 25"

Temporal Coverage:

Begin: 2014-02-05

End: 2014-02-15

File: length_prey

Description: Richness and body length of potential spider prey captured via sticky traps positioned in three different level distances according to the river margins (0, 10, 20 m).

Methods: Along the Mirante river margins, at Intervales State Park, we collected potential spider prey items by using sticky traps attached to vegetation. We selected five triplets of transects, totaling 15. Each triplet was divided in transects of 0, 10 and 20 meters from the river. Each sticky trap was composed by a plastic sheet (15 x 10 cm) covered with tanglefoot resin (The Tanglefoot Company®, Rapids, Michigan, USA) in one of the sides. A total of six traps were positioned on each transect, totaling 90. Trapped organisms were measured to the nearest 0,01 millimeter by using a caliper attached to a stereomicroscope.

Column Headings:

transect: Number of transect triplet (1-5) in which traps were positioned

distance: Relative distance from the river in which sticky traps were positioned (values in meters)

group: Arthropod identification to the nearest taxonomic group.

length: body length in millimeters measured with 0,01 accuracy