10.5061/DRYAD.9ZW3R22F9
Wang, Ming-Qiang
0000-0002-3175-2200
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yan, Chuan
Lanzhou University
Luo, Arong
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Li, Yi
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chesters, Douglas
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Qiao, Hui-Jie
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chen, Jing-Ting
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhou, Qing-Song
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ma, Keping
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bruelheide, Helge
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Schuldt, Andreas
University of Göttingen
Zhang, Zhibin
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhu, Chao-Dong
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lepidoptera caterpillars barcodes in FASTA format
Dryad
dataset
2021
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
https://ror.org/018mejw64
DFG FOR 891‐3,319936945/GRK2324
National Natural Science Foundation of China
https://ror.org/01h0zpd94
31772495
2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
2021-09-08T00:00:00Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15518
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13273
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The dataset contains COI barcodes of Lepidoptera caterpillars collected
from a subtropical forest in Jiangxi, China.
Lepidopteran larvae were collected six times in 2017 and 2018 (April, June
and September in each year). We collected all caterpillars by beating
individual trees and knocking down resident insects. Lepidopteran
caterpillars are much more restricted in their mobility than adult and
flying insects and have a high probability of being collected from the
trees they actually feed on (see also Wardhaugh et al., 2012). We beat the
trees with a padded stick over a white sheet (1.5 m × 1.5 m) and collected
all caterpillars knocked down from the trees (Schuldt et al., 2014). We
sampled all trees in the first rows of each plot for a total 80 living
trees in each plot. We used DNA-barcoding to identify herbivore-host plant
associations along declining levels of tree diversity in a large-scale,
subtropical biodiversity experiment. We tested for effects of tree species
richness, host functional and phylogenetic diversity, and host functional
(leaf trait) and phylogenetic composition and composition, and leaf trait
composition on taxonomic species, phylogenetic, and network composition of
herbivore communities. Our data from six sampling periods represent 6821
mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences of
lepidopteran larvae, clustered into 447 molecular operational taxonomic
units.