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 "<strong>Pest suppression by bats and management strategies to favour it: a global review</strong>", 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.

本数据库展示了2022年10月开展的一项系统性综述所探明的蝙蝠与农业害虫间的相互作用，该综述题为"《蝙蝠的害虫抑制作用及其促进策略：一项全球性综述》"，将发表于期刊《Biological Reviews》。
研究方法说明：我们首先汇编了涵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害虫名录，我们从Hill（1983、1987）的研究中提取了主要农业害虫物种。需注意：部分物种仅在特定区域被视为害虫，而在其他区域则不具备害虫属性，因此该综合名录在用于农业管理前，需由昆虫学家以及地方或区域专家进行审慎校核。
我们最初从Hill（1987、1983）的文献中提取得到1237个害虫物种或属级单元，形成第一份害虫名录。随后我们使用R语言wosr包在ISI Web of Science数据库中开展文献检索，检索主题字段包含"害虫物种名称"与"bat*"，其中"害虫物种名称"指代上述1237个物种。
对首次检出的文献进行筛查后，我们新增了562个未被Hill（1987、1983）收录但在检出文献中提及的害虫物种，更新后的名录共包含1799个昆虫害虫物种。我们使用该更新名录再次通过R语言wosr包开展了相同的文献检索。
此外，我们还开展了三组文献检索，检索主题分别为：(i) "蝙蝠"或"蝙蝠类"、"食性*"与"昆虫*"；(ii) "蝙蝠"或"蝙蝠类"、"捕食者*"与"昆虫*"；(iii) "蝙蝠"或"蝙蝠类"、"食性*"与"节肢动物*"。
最终我们共检索得到1125篇文献，仅保留其中能在属或种水平明确蝙蝠猎物的文献（共95篇）。我们从经筛查的文献中提取捕食者-猎物相互作用数据并录入本数据集，每条记录均展示了捕食的蝙蝠物种、其取食的害虫物种，以及用于确认捕食关系的验证方法。