Insect species richness for each plant species and insect-plant interactions from the Database of Insects and their Food Plants [DBIF]

This dataset consists of 4,397 insect species associated with 679 native plant species, 120 archaeophytes, and 223 neophytes from the Database of Insects and their Food Plants (DBIF). The DBIF details approximately 60,000 interactions between phytophagous insect (and mite) species and plants recorded in Great Britain over the last century, based on a wide variety of sources, including entomological journals and field guides. The data here represents a reduced subset of the full DBIF (13,277 interactions), only including interactions resolved to the species level (insect species x associated with host plant species y), records that have been expertly verified as reliable and included in previous large-scale analyses (Ward 1988; Ward & Spalding 1993; Ward et al. 1995; Ward et al. 2003), and records that are certain to have occurred in Great Britain. Any records originating from captive breeding studies are excluded. Finally, only plants with associated phylogenetic data and native status are included. Host plant distribution size is also included, in addition to a quantification of the distinctiveness of the insect communities found on a subset of the non-native plants. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability.

本数据集汇集了与679种原生植物、120种古植物和223种新植物相关的4,397种昆虫物种，源自《昆虫及其食物植物数据库》（DBIF）。DBIF详细记录了约60,000种植食性昆虫（及螨类）物种与植物之间的相互作用，这些记录基于过去的百年间在英国记录的多种来源，包括昆虫学期刊和野外指南。本数据集仅为DBIF全部数据（13,277种相互作用）的缩减子集，仅包括解耦至物种级别的相互作用（昆虫物种x与寄主植物物种y的关联），这些记录已由专家验证为可靠，并被纳入先前的大型分析中（Ward 1988；Ward & Spalding 1993；Ward et al. 1995；Ward et al. 2003），且确信发生在英国境内。任何源自人工繁殖研究的记录均被排除在外。最终，仅包括具有相关系统发育数据和原生状态的植物。此外，还包括寄主植物分布规模，以及非原生植物子集上发现的昆虫群落独特性的量化。本研究得到自然环境研究委员会（NE/R016429/1）的资助，作为英国-SCAPE计划的一部分，旨在提供国家能力建设。