README file for the data file
Beech_carabids_traits_modified.csv

Authors:
Weiss, Fabio (ORCID 0000-0003-1078-1528)
Winter, Susanne
Pflugmacher, Dirk
Kolling, Thomas
Linde, Andreas

Describtion of variables:

species: species name according to carabids.org
size: mean size according to carabids.org*
guild: feeding guild according to carabids.org*
wings: ming morphology according to carabids.org*



Homburg, K., Homburg, N., Schäfer, F., Schuldt, A., Assmann, T., 2014. Carabids.org – a dynamic online database of ground beetle species traits (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Insect Conservation and Diversity 7, 195–205. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12045

Müller-Motzfeld, G. (2004). Bd. 2 Adephaga 1: Carabidae (Laufkäfer). - In: Freude, H., Harde, K. W., Lohse, G. A. & Klausnitzer, B.: Die Käfer Mitteleuropas. 2nd edn. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin.



Data was downloaded from carabids.org on 15.12.2020

*If trait information was not available it was complemented according to Müller-Motzfeld (2004).