Table 1 Detailed account about data-collecting methods and specific data files.

From: A summary of eight traits of Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera and Araneae, occurring in grasslands in Germany

Sample Name

Field method

Species identification method

Trait assignment

Raw Data File

Data Repository

Data Record Accession (Dryad doi)

Coleoptera

Sweep-netting

Identification to species level by taxonomic specialists

Trait assignment using existing databases, literature sources and author’s experience

ArthropodSpeciesTraits.txt

Dryad

10.5061/dryad.53ds2

Hemiptera: Heteroptera

Sweep-netting

Identification to species level by taxonomic specialists

Trait assignment using existing databases, literature sources and author’s experience

ArthropodSpeciesTraits.txt

Dryad

10.5061/dryad.53ds2

Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha

Sweep-netting

Identification to species level by taxonomic specialists

Trait assignment using existing databases, literature sources and author’s experience

ArthropodSpeciesTraits.txt

Dryad

10.5061/dryad.53ds2

Orthoptera

Sweep-netting

Identification to species level by taxonomic specialists

Trait assignment using existing databases, literature sources and author’s experience

ArthropodSpeciesTraits.txt

Dryad

10.5061/dryad.53ds2

Araneae

Sweep-netting

Identification to species level by taxonomic specialists

Trait assignment using existing databases, literature sources and author’s experience

ArthropodSpeciesTraits.txt

Dryad

10.5061/dryad.53ds2