Herbivory is ubiquitous. Despite being a potential driver of plant distribution and performance, herbivory remains largely undocumented. Some early attempts have been made to review, globally, how much leaf area is removed through insect feeding. Kozlov et al., in one of the most comprehensive reviews regarding global patterns of herbivory, have compiled published studies regarding foliar removal and sampled data on global herbivory levels using a standardized protocol. However, in the review by Kozlov et al., only 15 sampling sites, comprising 33 plant species, were evaluated in tropical areas around the globe. In Brazil, which ranks first in terms of plant biodiversity, with a total of 46,097 species, almost half (43%) being endemic, a single data point was sampled, covering only two plant species. In an attempt to increase knowledge regarding herbivory in tropical plant species and to provide the raw data needed to test general hypotheses related to plant–herbivore interactions across large spatial scales, we proposed a joint, collaborative network to evaluate tropical herbivory. This network allowed us to update and expand the data on insect herbivory in tropical and temperate plant species. Our data set, collected with a standardized protocol, covers 45 sampling sites from nine countries and includes leaf herbivory measurements of 57,239 leaves from 209 species of vascular plants belonging to 65 families from tropical and temperate regions. They expand previous data sets by including a total of 32 sampling sites from tropical areas around the globe, comprising 152 species, 146 of them being sampled in Brazil. For temperate areas, it includes 13 sampling sites, comprising 59 species. Thus, when compared to the most recent comprehensive review of insect herbivory (Kozlov et al.), our data set has increased the base of available data for the tropical plants more than 460% (from 33 to 152 species) and the Brazilian sampling was increased 7,300% (from 2 to 146 species). Data on precise levels of herbivory are presented for more than 57,000 leaves worldwide. There are no copyright restrictions. Please cite this paper when using the current data in publications; the authors request to be informed how the data is used in the publications.

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昆虫吃多少叶面积？通过标准化协议在全球范围内采样的食草动物数据集

食草无处不在。尽管草食是植物分布和生长的潜在驱动力，但在很大程度上仍未有文件记载。已经进行了一些早期的尝试，以全面地检查通过昆虫摄食去除了多少叶面积。Kozlov等人在有关全球草食模式的最全面的评论之一中，已使用标准化协议汇编了有关叶面去除的公开研究和有关全球草食动物水平的采样数据。然而，在Kozlov等人的评论中，在全球热带地区仅评估了15个采样点，包括33种植物。在植物多样性方面排名第一的巴西，共有46,097种，其中近一半（43％）是地方性的，仅采样了一个数据点，仅涵盖了两种植物。为了增加对热带植物种类中草食动物知识的了解，并提供检验在较大空间尺度上与植物-草食动物相互作用相关的一般假设所需的原始数据，我们提出了一个联合，协作的网络来评估热带草食动物。该网络使我们能够更新和扩展热带和温带植物物种中的昆虫食草数据。我们的数据集采用标准化协议收集，涵盖了来自9个国家的45个采样点，包括对来自热带和温带地区65个科的209种维管植物的57,239片叶子进行了食草测量。他们扩大了以前的数据集，包括了全球热带地区的总共32个采样点，包括152种，其中146种在巴西采样。对于温带地区，它包括13个采样点，包括59种。因此，与最新的昆虫食草综合评估（Kozlov等人）相比，我们的数据集使热带植物的可用数据基础增加了460％以上（从33种增加到152种），而巴西的采样为增加了7,300％（从2种增加到146种）。提供了全球57,000多片叶子的精确食草水平数据。没有版权限制。使用出版物中的最新数据时，请引用本论文。作者要求告知出版物中如何使用这些数据。我们的数据集使热带植物的可用数据基础增加了460％以上（从33种增加到152种），而巴西采样增加了7,300％（从2种增加到146种）。提供了全球57,000多片叶子的精确食草水平数据。没有版权限制。使用出版物中的最新数据时，请引用本论文。作者要求告知出版物中如何使用这些数据。我们的数据集使热带植物的可用数据基础增加了460％以上（从33种增加到152种），而巴西采样增加了7,300％（从2种增加到146种）。提供了全球57,000多片叶子的精确食草水平数据。没有版权限制。使用出版物中的最新数据时，请引用本文；作者要求告知出版物中如何使用这些数据。