Data for "Plant identity determines pollinator, natural enemy, herbivore and decomposer abundances in flower plantings"

The study was conducted during two years in two sites. Pollinators (hoverflies and wild bees - including bumblebees and solitary bees) were surveyed with visual observations for 60s twice a week while the plot was in bloom.

Leaf-dwelling arthropods (predators, parasitic wasps and herbivores) were collected using vacuum sampling (30s in a 1m by 1m quadrat) of the plots with open flowers. As below-ground organisms, nematodes (predators, herbivores and decomposers) were sampled at the end of each survey season taking a composite sample consisting on three samples per plot (2cm diameter, 15cm depth). All data were summed on the plot level per site and year.