Functional responsesthe relationships between consumer foraging rate and resource (prey) densityprovide key insights into consumer-resource interactions and predation mechanics while also being a major contributor to population dynamics and food web structure. We present a global database of standardized functional response parameters extracted from the published literature.We refit the functional responses with a Type II model using standardized methods and report the fitted parameters along with data on experimental conditions, consumer and resource taxonomy and type, as well as the habitat and dimensionality of the foraging interaction. The consumer and resource species covered here are taxonomically diverse, from protozoans filtering algae to wasps parasitizing moth larvae to wolves hunting moose. The FoRAGE database (doi:10.5063/F17H1GTQ) is a living data set that will be updated periodically as new functional responses are published.
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