Interactions between bats and agricultural insect pests worlwide

This database illustrates the interactions between bats and agricultural insect pests detected conducting a systematic review in October 2022, entitled "Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review", to be published in the journal Biological Reviews. Methodology applied: We compiled a comprehensive list of agricultural insect pests occurring in temperate and tropical regions. Since no more recent public documents or published lists were available, we extracted the main agricultural insect pests cited in Hill (1983, 1987). Note that species might be considered pests in certain regions while not in others, meaning that this comprehensive list will need careful review by entomologists and local or regional experts for use in agricultural management. We assembled a first list of 1,237 insect pest species or genera extracted from Hill (1987, 1983). We then conducted a literature search in the ISI Web of Science using the R package wosr. We searched for any indexed document containing the following terms in the topic field: "pest species name" AND "bat*", where ‘pest species name’ refers to each of the 1237 species. After the first check of the articles found, we added 562 new pest species to the first list, which were not included in Hill (1987, 1983), but were mentioned in the papers found. Thus, the updated list consisting of 1799 insect pest species was used again to perform the same literature search with the R package wosr. In addition, we also performed three literature searches including the following terms: (i) "bat" or "bats", "diet*", and "insect*"; (ii) "bat" or "bats", "predat*", and "insect*"; (iii) "bat" or "bats", "diet*", and "arthropod*". We identified a total of 1125 articles, of which we retained only those that identified bat prey at the genus or species level (N = 95). Predator - prey interactions were extracted from the articles reviewed and added in this data set, showing each bat species with the insect pest species it consumed, as well as the method used to confirm predation.

本数据集展示了基于2022年10月完成的一项系统综述所鉴定的蝙蝠与农业害虫间的互作关系，该综述题为《蝙蝠对害虫的控害作用及其促控管理策略：一项全球性综述》，将发表于《Biological Reviews》（生物学评论）期刊。
本研究采用的方法如下：我们首先构建了一份覆盖温带与热带区域的农业害虫综合名录。由于暂无更新的公开文献或已发布的名录，我们从Hill（1983、1987）的研究中提取了核心农业害虫类群。请注意，部分物种仅在特定区域被视为害虫，在其他区域则不然，因此该综合名录在用于农业管理前，需由昆虫学家及地方/区域专家进行细致校核。
我们从Hill（1987、1983）的文献中提取得到首批共1237种（属）农业害虫，形成初始名录。随后，我们依托R语言包wosr，在ISI Web of Science（科睿唯安科学网）中开展文献检索，以主题字段为检索范围，检索包含"害虫物种名称"与"bat*"（通配符，匹配词干衍生形式）组合关键词的索引文献，其中"害虫物种名称"指代前述1237种害虫。在对检索得到的文献进行初筛后，我们从检出文献中补充了562种未被Hill（1987、1983）收录的害虫，更新至初始名录中。由此得到包含1799种农业害虫的更新名录，我们再次依托R语言包wosr以相同规则开展文献检索。
此外，我们还开展了三组补充文献检索，检索关键词组合分别为：(i) "bat" or "bats", "diet*", and "insect*"；(ii) "bat" or "bats", "predat*", and "insect*"；(iii) "bat" or "bats", "diet*", and "arthropod*"。本次检索共得到1125篇文献，最终仅保留其中明确鉴定出蝙蝠猎物属级或物种级类群的95篇文献。
我们从经审的文献中提取捕食者-猎物互作数据并录入本数据集，内容涵盖每一种蝙蝠及其取食的农业害虫物种，以及用于确证捕食行为的实验方法。