Description: This resource comprises a time series dataset of ant and other invertebrate abundance measured fortnightly at bait monitoring cards on an experimental plot in the Maliau Basin Conservation Area, Malaysian Borneo. The resource includes data regarding the amount of food resource removed from experimental plots when either ants or vertebrates were excluded from the resource. The data were collected to assess the roles that the different groups (ants, invertebrates, vertebrates) play in ecosystem function, and the capacity for functional redundancy within and between these groups. Data were collected between 2014 and 2016 during a project run by the University of Liverpool, which was part of the NERC Human-modified tropical forest (HMTF) Programme.Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: Biodiversity and land-use impacts on tropical ecosystem function (BALI): Experimental manipulations of biodiversity at SAFEFunding: These data were collected as part of research funded by: UK NERC-funded Biodiversity And Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium (Standard grant, NERC grant NE/L000016/1)This dataset is released under the CC-BY 4.0 licence, requiring that you cite the dataset in any outputs, but has the additional condition that you acknowledge the contribution of these funders in any outputs.Permits: These data were collected under permit from the following authorities:Sabah Biodiversity Centre (Research licence na)XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available hereFiles: This consists of 1 file: Ant_Monitoring.xlsxAnt_Monitoring.xlsxThis file contains dataset metadata and 3 data tables:Ant monitoring data (described in worksheet Ant_Monitoring_Data)Description: ant count taken on bait cards at an experimental plotNumber of fields: 4Number of data rows: 18296Fields: Date: Date cards were collected? (Field type: Date)Plot: Plot in the Maliau basin (Field type: Location)Treatment: Refers to ant or termite exclusion, or control (Field type: Categorical)Score: Number of ants (Field type: Numeric trait)Non ant invertebrate data (described in worksheet Non_Ant_Invertebrate_Data)Description: non ant count taken on bait monitoring cardsNumber of fields: 12Number of data rows: 463Fields: Date: Date cards were collected? (Field type: Date)Plot: Plot in the Maliau basin (Field type: location)Treatment: Refers to ant or termite exclusion, or control (Field type: categorical)Wasp: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Cricket: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Fly: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Springtail: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Beetle: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Cockroach: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Spider: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Harvestman: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric trait)Sum: The score used to estimate the numbers of inverts observed on the bait cards (Field type: Numeric)Percentage of bait removed (described in worksheet Percentage_Bait_Removed_Data)Description: percentage of bait removedNumber of fields: 10Number of data rows: 377Fields: Date_put_out: Date the bait was placed (Field type: Date)Date_collected: Date the bait was collected (Field type: Date)rep: Replicate (Field type: Replicate)plot: Plot used in the Maliau basin (Field type: Location)plot_treat: Plot treatment (Field type: Categorical)bait: Bait used (Field type: Categorical)cage_treat: Cage structure (Field type: Categorical)start_weight: Weight of the bait before being placed in the field (Field type: Numeric)end_weight: Weight of the bait after being placed in the field (Field type: Numeric)perc_gone: Percentage of the bait consumed (Field type: Numeric)Date range: 2014-12-04 to 2017-03-15Latitudinal extent: 4.5000 to 5.0700Longitudinal extent: 116.7500 to 117.8200Taxonomic coverage: All taxon names are validated against the GBIF backbone taxonomy. If a dataset uses a synonym, the accepted usage is shown followed by the dataset usage in brackets. Taxa that cannot be validated, including new species and other unknown taxa, morphospecies, functional groups and taxonomic levels not used in the GBIF backbone are shown in square brackets.Animalia - Arthropoda - - Arachnida - - - Araneae - - - Opiliones - - Entognatha - - - Collembola - - Insecta - - - Blattodea - - - Coleoptera - - - Diptera - - - Hymenoptera - - - Orthoptera