The dataset is the collection of data for the article "Suburban areas can act as refuge for carabids (ground beetles) in cities with high climate seasonality and urban heat island effect: a global meta-analysis." accepted to Diversity and Distributions. The table contains data collected from published articles for the above-mentioned meta-analysis. The article contains the citations for the articles from which the data originates. The article is about the non-linear effects of urbanisation on carabids (ground-beetles), and contains data and effect sizes from urban-suburban, suburban-rural comparisons in species richness and abundance. There are species richness and abundance, correlation and variance data in the tables. The table also contains the calculation of the intermediate effect sizes (Hedges' g) and the final effect sizes (Pearson's r) and their respective variance measures. As meta-statistics are primarily linear models, we grasped the non-linear comparison by separating the urban-suburban and the suburban-rural comparisons. Furthermore, we considered climate and urban heat island (UHI) effect as moderating factors of these potential non-linear effects. We found several non-linear patterns in the presence of climate and UHI as moderators, responding mostly to seasonality and environmental stability. We acquired the climate variables from: Karger, D. N., Conrad, O., Böhner, J., Kawohl, T., Kreft, H., Soria-Auza, R. W., Zimmermann, N. E., Linder, H. P., & Kessler, M. (2017). Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas. Scientific Data, 4, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.122 We acquired the urban heat island data from: Center for International Earth Science Information Network - Columbia University. (2016). Global urban heat island (UHI) data set. 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Does urbanization decrease diversity in ground beetle (Carabidae) assemblages? Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19(1), 16–26. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00499.xNiemelä, J., Kotze, D. . J., Venn, S., Penev, L., Stoyanov, I., Spence, J., Hartley, D., & Montes de Oca, E. (2002). Carabid beetle assemblages (Coleoptera, Carabidae) across urban-rural gradients: An international comparison. Landscape Ecology, 17(5), 387–401. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021270121630Park, J.-W., & Lee, C. M. (2021). Response of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) communities to effect of urbanization in southern osaka: An analytical approach using gis. Sustainability (Switzerland), 13, 7134. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137134Perry, K. I., Hoekstra, N. C., de la Flor, Y. A. D., & Gardiner, M. M. (2020). Disentangling landscape and local drivers of ground-dwelling beetle community assembly in an urban ecosystem. Ecological Applications, 30(8), e02191. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2191Piano, E., Souffreau, C., Merckx, T., Baardsen, L. F., Backeljau, T., Bonte, D., Brans I, K., Cours, M., Dahirel, M., Debortoli, N., Decaestecker, E., De Wolf, K., Engelen, J. M. T., Fontaneto, D., Gianuca, A. T., Govaert, L., Hanashiro, F. T. T., Higuti, J., Lens, L., … Hendrickx, F. (2020). Urbanization drives cross-taxon declines in abundance and diversity at multiple spatial scales. Global Change Biology, 26(3), 1196–1211. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14934Sadler, J. P., Small, E. C., Fiszpan, H., Telfer, M. G., & Niemelä, J. (2006). Investigating environmental variation and landscape characteristics of an urban-rural gradient using woodland carabid assemblages. Journal of Biogeography, 33(6), 1126–1138. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01476.xTóthmérész, B., Máthé, I., Balázs, E., & Magura, T. (2011). Responses of carabid beetles to urbanization in Transylvania (Romania). 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