Census of the ant community occurred every year (1977-2009) over a two week period during July after the summer monsoons have begun. Data collection ended in 2009.
Portal_ant_bait includes data collected by leaving bait piles for ants to forage. species and abundance are recorded.
Portal_ant_colony includes data collected by counting the number of colonies and colony entrances (openings) near each permanent rebar stake on a plot. species, colonies and openings are recorded.
Portal_ant_dataflags describes the codes used to flag potentially problematic data. These flags are used in the flag column of Portal_ant_colony.
Portal_ant_species contains the ant species list and species codes used in Portal_ant_bait and Portal_ant_colony.
Please refer to Methods.md for a complete description of how these data were collected.