Shapefiles representing regions in alien species databases for 9 taxa

Shapefiles representing regions in alien species databases. 1- Regions_shapefile_amphibians_reptiles - created based on the regional information available in "Capinha, C. <em>et al.</em> Diversity, biogeography and the global flows of alien amphibians and reptiles. <em>Divers Distrib</em> <strong>23</strong>, 1313–1322 (2017)." 2- Regions_shapefile_ants_mammals - provided by "Guénard, B., Weiser, M. D., Gómez, K., Narula, N. &amp; Economo, E. P. The Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics (GABI) database: synthesizing data on the geographic distribution of ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). <em>Myrmecological News</em> <strong>24</strong>, 83–89 (2017)." 3- Regions_shapefile_birds - created based on the regional information available in "Dyer, E. E., Redding, D. W. &amp; Blackburn, T. M. The global avian invasions atlas, a database of alien bird distributions worldwide. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>4</strong>, 170041 (2017)." 4- Regions_shapefile_freshwater - provided by "Tedesco, P. A. <em>et al.</em> A global database on freshwater fish species occurrence in drainage basins. <em>Sci Data</em> <strong>4</strong>, 170141 (2017)." 5- Regions_shapefile_macrofungi - created based on the regional information available in "Monteiro, M. <em>et al.</em> A database of the global distribution of alien macrofungi. <em>Biodiversity Data Journal </em><strong>8</strong>, e51459 (2020)." 6- Regions_shapefile_plants - provided by "Kleunen, M. <em>et al.</em> The Global Naturalised Alien Flora (GloNAF) database. <em>Ecology</em> <strong>100</strong>, (2019)." 7- Regions_shapefile_spiders - created based on the regional information shared by co-author Wolfgang Nentwig