1. ABOUT THE DATASET ------------ Title: Crop pollinator communities - global dataset Creator(s): Deepa Senapathi Organisation(s): University of Reading Rights-holder(s): University of Reading Publication Year: 2021 Description: This dataset is in a single Excel file that contains information on the richness and abundance of insect pollinators in crop systems collated from previous published/unpublished studies on crop pollinator communities from different crop systems in multiple countries. The collated data in this dataset has information from 43 studies on 21 different crops from 12 different countries. The information collated included site locations, climate data (if recorded), pollinator abundance data and species level information on crop pollinator communities observed in these study systems. Cite as: Senapathi, Deepa (2021): Temporal variation in global crop pollinator communities. University of Reading. Dataset. http://dx.doi.org/10.17864/1947.291 Related publication: Senapathi et al. (2021) Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B (under review) Contact: g.d.senapathi@reading.ac.uk 2. TERMS OF USE ----------------- Copyright 2021 University of Reading. This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ------------ Title: Quantifying temporal variation in crop pollinator communities Dates: November 2015 - November 2018 This study was supported by a short-term scientific mission grant from the EU COST Action Super-B project (STSM-FA1307-150416-070296) and Deepa Senapathi was supported by the University of Reading Research Endowment Trust Fund (E3530600). 4. CONTENTS ------------ The file "Sena2021_PollinatorTemporalData" contains collated data on crop pollinator communities from previous studies on crop systems from across the world. The dataset file has five spreadsheets, details of which are outlined below: 1. Metadata 2. Summary - Information on study ID, country, crop, years of sampling and no. of sites. 3. Abundance data - Species level data on pollinator abundance recorded at each study site. 4. Site data - Site data on type of site and years of sampling. 5. Climate data - Temperature data for sampling dates for each study and site where available 5. METHODS -------------------------- This dataset was generated by collating data on previous published/unpublished studies on crop pollinator communities from different crop systems in multiple countries. The collated data in this dataset has information from 43 studies on 21 different crops from 12 different countries. The information collated included site locations, climate data (if recorded), pollinator abundance data and species level information on crop pollinator communities observed in these study systems. Data standardisation and accuracy were checked in Excel.