AmongTheDung

This repository contains data and code relating to the study:

Temperature and dung availability drive intraspecific dung beetle body size across grassland grazing regimes

Authors:

Ben Allgire, Mary Liz Jameson, & Ellen A. R. Welti

Study investigation of:

Responses of body size for two dung beetle species, one native and one non-native to mammalian grazer dung type, nutrients, temperature, and insecticides

rawdata file:

DB_densities.csv :

• Contains project data on number of dung beetles of both species (CanPil & OntNuc) collected per sample

DungersAll.csv :

• Contains data on dung beetle body size measurements

PlantChem.csv :

• Contains data on chemistry of grasses including %C, %N, ppm Al, ppm B, ppm Ca, ppm Cu, ppm Fe, ppm K, ppm Li, ppm Mg, ppm Mn, ppm Na, ppm Ni, ppm P, ppm Pb, ppm S, ppm Si, ppm Sr, ppm Ti, ppm V, & ppm Zn

#### PooCount.csv :

• Contains data on counts of prairie dog dungs/m^2

stocking.csv :

• Contains data on bison and cattle stock rates, and presence of prairie dogs and insecticide use per site

#### TempRH.csv :

• Contains data on temperature and relative humidity from data loggers

outputs file:

Synthesized data versions and model outputs

R file:

AggregatingDRIVERSAtSiteMonth.R :

• R script containing code to summarize driver data from the rawdata folder into a combined file with all data provided as one value for each site and month.

AggregatingSIZEAtSiteMonth.R :

• R script containing code to summarize dung beetle size data from the rawdata folder into a combined file with all data provided as one value for each site and month.

#### BodySizeDriverModels.R :

• R script containing code for models examining effects of insecticides and herbivore densities

dungerSizesAtTrtMonth.R :

• R script containing code to summarize dung beetle size data from the rawdata folder into a combined file with all data provided as one value for each trt and month.

TrapCatch_trt.R :

• R script containing code to summarize dung beetle sample count data from the rawdata folder into a combined file with all data provided as one value for each trt, trt and month

plots file:

plots and R scripts for making plots