Data set

The data used in the paper is a spreadsheet which includes the effect sizes, means, and measures of variance for the effects of inter and intra specific interactions on herbivorous insects, extracted from previously published research. Also included are information about the experimental methods and the conditions of the experiments, what type of fitness metric was used and the diet breadth and feeding guilds of the insects involved, where these were known. Most of this data was extracted from graphs using web plot digitizer.

本论文所用数据集为一份电子表格，其数据源自已发表的研究成果，涵盖种间交互作用（interspecific interactions）与种内交互作用（intraspecific interactions）对植食性昆虫的效应量、均值及方差度量指标。该表格同时收录了可获知的实验方法、实验开展条件、所用适合度指标（fitness metric）类型，以及涉及昆虫的食性广度（diet breadth）与取食功能群（feeding guilds）相关信息。本数据集的绝大多数数据均通过Web PlotDigitizer工具从各类图表中提取得到。