Insect herbivores moderate forest functioning under global environmental change, which makes understanding herbivore community dynamics a key challenge of ecological research. Plant-regulated bottom-up effects and climatic conditions determine her...

The dataset was generated in June 2017, at the BEF-China experimental site in Xingangshan, Jiangxi Province. In this study, arboreal spiders were collected from 55 sample plots using the branch beating method, and prey in the spider gut were detec...

This dataset includes herbivorous Lepidoptera caterpillars and their associated parasitoids collected from the BEF-China experiment between 2021 and 2024.

Includes the metadata and inventory measurement data for all TSQs of Site A and B recorded in separate campaigns of TreeDì cohort two and three in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The data includes the positions, species and conditions of shrub and tre...

Includes the metadata and inventory measurement data for all TSQs of Site A and B recorded in separate campaigns of TreeDì cohort two and three in 2023 and 2024 respectively. The data includes the positions, species and conditions of shrub and tre...

The data was collected from 88 plots of BEF-China for five years (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020) using trap nests. Specifically, we collected trap nests monthly to sample solitary bees and wasps in the 88 plots from September to November in 2015 an...