READ ME File For 'Plant_Production_Dependence' Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D0826 ReadMe Author: Fabrizia Ratto, University of Southampton This dataset supports the thesis entitled "Estimating consequences of losing pollination services: an evaluation of the pollinator dependency of plants" AWARDED BY: FACULTY OF NATURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES DATE OF AWARD: DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA An extensive systematic literature review was conducted to search for studies that looked at the relationship between vertebrate pollinators’ visitation and plant sexual reproduction. The selected articles meeting all the criteria were 389. The full text of each article was screened and all relevant information was extracted: Reference, Site location, Site details, Plant information, Pollinator information, Measure of reproductive success, impact of vertebrate pollination on seed and fruit production. This dataset contains: Dataset for degree of production dependence of wild and crop plants on vertebrate pollination based on field exclusion experiments. The database includes information on 126 sites for 29 countries and 90 plants species. ). There are 126 entries with information in 16 columns within the dataset. Each entry represents an exclusion experiment on one plant species, where the seed or fruit production is compared between plants excluded from vertebrate pollination by mean of bagging or caging and those of unmanipulated plants (open pollination). Date of data collection: 2018 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Date that the file was created: September, 2018