Terrestrial Ecology Research Group, Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Center for Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München , Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, D-85354 Freising, Germany.
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute for Biosciences, Biology & Ecology Unit , Leipziger Straße 29, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany.
Sci Data. 2015 Mar 31;2:150013. doi: 10.1038/sdata.2015.13. eCollection 2015.
Analyses of species traits have increased our understanding of how environmental drivers such as disturbances affect the composition of arthropod communities and related processes. There are, however, few studies on which traits in the arthropod community are affected by environmental changes and which traits affect ecosystem functioning. The assembly of arthropod traits of several taxa is difficult because of the large number of species, limited availability of trait databases and differences in available traits. We sampled arthropod species data from a total of 150 managed grassland plots in three regions of Germany. These plots represent the spectrum from extensively used pastures to mown pastures to intensively managed and fertilized meadows. In this paper, we summarize information on body size, dispersal ability, feeding guild and specialization (within herbivores), feeding mode, feeding tissue (within herbivorous suckers), plant part (within herbivorous chewers), endophagous lifestyle (within herbivores), and vertical stratum use for 1,230 species of Coleoptera, Hemiptera (Heteroptera, Auchenorrhyncha), Orthoptera (Saltatoria: Ensifera, Caelifera), and Araneae, sampled by sweep-netting between 2008 and 2012. We compiled traits from various literature sources and complemented data from reliable internet sources and the authors' experience.
物种特征分析增加了我们对环境驱动因素（如干扰）如何影响节肢动物群落组成和相关过程的理解。然而，关于节肢动物群落中哪些特征受到环境变化的影响，以及哪些特征影响生态系统功能的研究较少。由于物种数量众多、特征数据库有限以及可用特征的差异，对几种分类群的节肢动物特征进行组合是困难的。我们从德国三个地区的总共 150 个管理草地斑块中采样了节肢动物物种数据。这些斑块代表了从广泛使用的牧场到割草的牧场，再到集约化管理和施肥的草地的范围。在本文中，我们总结了关于 1,230 种鞘翅目、半翅目（异翅目、蝉目）、直翅目（跳跃者：螽斯、蝗目）和蜘蛛目昆虫的体型、扩散能力、取食群体和专业化（食草动物内）、取食方式、取食组织（食草性吮吸者内）、取食部位（食草性咀嚼者内）、内食生活方式（食草动物内）和垂直层利用的信息，这些信息是通过 2008 年至 2012 年期间用网捕法采集的。我们从各种文献来源中汇编了特征，并补充了来自可靠互联网来源和作者经验的数据。
