Quantifying Global Colonization Pressures of Alien Vertebrates from Wildlife Trade

Data on families and number of species in families in live wildlife trade, number of traded alien species across countries or regions, list of established alien species in trade, number of established alien species in trade across countries or regions, and Search phases in different language used for websites or publications on the sale of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians across 193 countries, publications used for retrieving data on historical online trade and physical stores, and references from the journal BioInvasions Records used for retrieving established alien terrestrial vertebrate species and their distributions