Documenting potential interactions between species represents a major step towards understanding and predicting the spatial and temporal structure of multi‐trophic communities and their functioning. The metaweb concept summarizes the potential trophic (and non‐trophic) interactions in a given species pool. As such, it generalizes the regional species pool of community ecology by incorporating the potential relationships between species from different trophic levels along with their functional characteristics. However, although this concept is very attractive theoretically, it has rarely been used to understand the structure of an ecological network, mostly because of data availability. Here, we provide a continental‐scale, species‐level metaweb for all tetrapods (mammals, breeding birds, reptiles and amphibians) occurring in Europe and in the Northern Mediterranean basin. This metaweb is based on data extracted from the scientific literature, including published papers, books and grey literature.

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TETRA-EU 1.0：欧洲四足动物的物种级营养变位网

记录物种之间的潜在相互作用是迈向理解和预测多营养群落的时空结构及其功能的重要一步。元网络概念总结了给定物种库中潜在的营养（和非营养）相互作用。因此，它通过整合来自不同营养级别的物种之间的潜在关系及其功能特征，来概括社区生态的区域物种库。但是，尽管该概念在理论上非常吸引人，但由于数据的可用性，很少用于理解生态网络的结构。在这里，我们为所有四足动物（哺乳动物，种​​鸟，爬行动物和两栖动物）发生在欧洲和地中海北部盆地。此元网络基于从科学文献中提取的数据，包括已发表的论文，书籍和灰色文献。