Additional information for 2 datasets (AllWebCRs.csv, and connectance_empirical_log_data.csv)

Here we further explain the columns in each datasets, and the reference for the datasets.

1. AllWebCRs.csv

Column1: Community name

Column2: General habitat name

Column3: Habitat description

Column4: Consumer identity

Column5: Resource identity

Column6: Trophic interaction dimensionality (D), Unitless

Column7: Consumer mass (Cmass), Unit: kg

Column8: Resource mass (Rmass), Unit kg

Column9: Log10(Consumer mass) (Log10Cmass), Unit: log10(kg)

Column10: Log10(Resource mass) (Log10Rmass), Unit: log10(kg)

Column11: Log10(Resource mass/Consumer mass) (Log10CRBR), Unitless

Column12: Source/reference for each trophic interaction.

Reference:

Samraat Pawar, Anthony I Dell, and Van M Savage. \Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths". In: Nature 486.7404 (2012), p. 485.

Samraat Pawar et al. \Interaction dimensionality scales up to generate bimodal consumer-resource size-ratio distributions in ecological communities". In: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7 (2019), p. 202.

2. connectance_empirical_log_data.csv

Column1: log(food web size)

Column2: log(connectance)

For the definition of the food web size and connectance, please see Supplementary Material.

Reference: 

JE Cohen. "Ecologists' co-operative web bank". In: The Rockefeller University, New York (1989)