Monitoring grassland’s arthropods in a in situ climate change experimentation (Terceira, Azores, Portugal)

• Main Author: Wallon, Sophie
• Publication Date: 2023
• Other Authors: Borges, Paulo A. V., Elias, Rui B.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: eng
• Source: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Download full: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6641
• topic: Samplingevent; Arthropods; Climate Change; Grasses; Pasture; Pitfall Traps; OTC’s

The data presented are part of the project PASTURCLIM (Impact of climate change on pasture’s productivity and nutritional composition in the Azores). The project aims to assess consequences of climate change (in this case, increasing temperature) on the grass production and quality for cattle forage. The project also aims to assess changes in the arthropod’s community associated to the grassland. An in situ experimentation was set up using Open Top Chambers (OTC’s), in order to simulate an increasing of temperature (average of +1.5⁰C) on grassland. In this paper, we present data relative to the arthropods collection. Overall, we collected 41,351 specimens belonging to four classes, 15 orders, 60 families and 171 morphospecies (including 34 taxa identified only at order, family of genus level). Therefore, for only 137 taxa we have a scientific name associated (n = 38918).