Insect herbivory in a South African savanna-forest mosaic: neglected but substantial

<p>These are primary data for the study of insect herbivory conducted in the savanna-forest mosaic of HluHluwe Imfolozi Park in South Africa. The submission contains the following files: specifically, notes for scripts and data particularly used in this study.</p> <p>1. Script 00_Configuration for R<br>2. Script 01_types_of_herbivory represents Figure 3a and Figure S1<br>3. Script 02_subset7_speciesALLhabitats represents Figure 3b, Figure S4, S5<br>4. Script 03_leaf_size_explorations represents Figures S2 and S3<br>5. Script 04_Species_traits_analyses represents Table 1<br>6. Script 05_Savanna correlation<br>7. Script 06_herbivory_savanna_PCA represent figure 4b</p> <p>Data used:<br>1. Data = Distribution_herbivory_class represented Figure_2b &amp; TableS4<br>2. Data = Mean proportion of leaf area eaten by chewers and miners per individual plant species represent figure 2a<br>3. Data = Data_Table S1_fire_mammal gradient<br>4. Data = &nbsp;Leaf sizes investigations &nbsp;for all plant species<br>5. Data = KTraits_20220625_PhylTrait.csv represents phylogenetic correlation signals in table 1 for correlation matrix (Pearson correlation).<br>6. Data = 07_dataset_herbivory_fortraits.csv represents correlation table 1 or correlation matrix (Pearson correlation).<br>7. Data = Environment_savanna_correlations_ExcelPlot.2024 represents Figure S6a &amp; 6b</p>