Only two US papers supplied matched ozone growth and intake rates in a 2024 invertebrate data release

We tested whether a public ozone synthesis supports a matched food-intake explanation for insect growth responses. Five matched contexts came from two US laboratory papers published in 1992 and 1993. Mean log growth ratios minus log intake ratios were +0.07555 and -0.17544. The four contexts in the second paper had both signs. Four matched conversion records did not exactly close the growth-intake identity at the group-mean level. This can result from averaging and does not prove an error. No matched paper occurred in the other region-period cells. The extract cannot support the planned repeated test across regions and periods. These are descriptive results, not causal effects or uncertainty bounds. Missing endpoints, selected papers, shared units and unknown paired covariance limit inference. The package includes code, aggregate evidence, source hashes and reproduction checks. We did not test climate or weather interactions.

ozone · invertebrates · food intake · growth rate · conversion efficiency · observation bias · evidence support · aggregation