Beneficial invertebrate trait data

Basic trait data on 116 UK bee, and 81 natural enemies (carabid and ladybird) species (Size, diet breadth, sociality, voltinism, flight season, dispersal ability). Collated from a wide variety of published sources.

Data acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. ASSIST is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

Available to download: Appendix 5 of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110550