Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Helen R.P. Phillips; Elizabeth M. Bach; Marie L.C. Bartz; Joanne M. Bennett; Rémy Beugnon; Maria J.I. Briones; George G. Brown; Olga Ferlian; Konstantin B. Gongalsky; Carlos A. Guerra; Birgitta König-Ries; Julia J. Krebs; Alberto Orgiazzi; Kelly S. Ramirez; David J. Russell; Benjamin Schwarz; Diana H. Wall; Ulrich Brose; Thibaud Decaëns; Patrick Lavelle; Michel Loreau; Jérôme Mathieu; Christian Mulder; Wim H. van der Putten; Matthias C. Rillig; Madhav P. Thakur; Franciska T. de Vries; David A. Wardle; Christian Ammer; Sabine Ammer; Miwa Arai; Fredrick O. Ayuke; Geoff H. Baker; Dilmar Baretta; Dietmar Barkusky; Robin Beauséjour; Jose C. Bedano; Klaus Birkhofer; Eric Blanchart; Bernd Blossey; Thomas Bolger; Robert L. Bradley; Michel Brossard; James C. Burtis; Yvan Capowiez; Timothy R. Cavagnaro; Amy Choi; Julia Clause; Daniel Cluzeau; Anja Coors; Felicity V. Crotty; Jasmine M. Crumsey; Andrea Dávalos; Darío J.Díaz Cosín; Annise M. Dobson; Anahí Domínguez; Andrés Esteban Duhour; Nick van Eekeren; Christoph Emmerling; Liliana B. Falco; Rosa Fernández; Steven J. Fonte; Carlos Fragoso; André L.C. Franco; Abegail Fusilero; Anna P. Geraskina; Shaieste Gholami; Grizelle González; Michael J. Gundale; Mónica Gutiérrez López; Branimir K. Hackenberger; Davorka K. Hackenberger; Luis M. Hernández; Jeff R. Hirth; Takuo Hishi; Andrew R. Holdsworth; Martin Holmstrup; Kristine N. Hopfensperger; Esperanza Huerta Lwanga; Veikko Huhta; Tunsisa T. Hurisso; Basil V. Iannone; Madalina Iordache; Ulrich Irmler; Mari Ivask; Juan B. Jesús; Jodi L. Johnson-Maynard; Monika Joschko; Nobuhiro Kaneko; Radoslava Kanianska; Aidan M. Keith; Maria L. Kernecker; Armand W. Koné; Yahya Kooch; Sanna T. Kukkonen; H. Lalthanzara; Daniel R. Lammel; Iurii M. Lebedev; Edith Le Cadre; Noa K. Lincoln; Danilo López-Hernández; Scott R. Loss; Raphael Marichal; Radim Matula; Yukio Minamiya; Jan Hendrik Moos; Gerardo Moreno; Alejandro Morón-Ríos; Hasegawa Motohiro; Bart Muys; Johan Neirynck; Lindsey Norgrove; Marta Novo; Visa Nuutinen; Victoria Nuzzo; P. Mujeeb Rahman; Johan Pansu; Shishir Paudel; Guénola Pérès; Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho; Jean François Ponge; Jörg Prietzel; Irina B. Rapoport; Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid; Salvador Rebollo; Miguel Rodríguez; Alexander M. Roth; Guillaume X. Rousseau; Anna Rozen; Ehsan Sayad; Loes van Schaik; Bryant Scharenbroch; Michael Schirrmann; Olaf Schmidt; Boris Schröder; Julia Seeber; Maxim P. Shashkov; Jaswinder Singh; Sandy M. Smith; Michael Steinwandter; Katalin Szlavecz; José Antonio Talavera; Dolores Trigo; Jiro Tsukamoto; Sheila Uribe-López; Anne W. de Valença; Iñigo Virto; Adrian A. Wackett; Matthew W. Warren; Emily R. Webster; Nathaniel H. Wehr; Joann K. Whalen; Michael B. Wironen; Volkmar Wolters; Pengfei Wu; Irina V. Zenkova; Weixin Zhang; Erin K. Cameron; Nico Eisenhauer

doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z

Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

Helen R.P. Phillips, Elizabeth M. Bach, Marie L.C. Bartz, Joanne M. Bennett, Rémy Beugnon, Maria J.I. Briones, George G. Brown, Olga Ferlian, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Carlos A. Guerra, Birgitta König-Ries, Julia J. Krebs, Alberto Orgiazzi, Kelly S. Ramirez, David J. Russell, Benjamin Schwarz, Diana H. Wall, Ulrich Brose, Thibaud Decaëns, Patrick LavelleMichel Loreau, Jérôme Mathieu, Christian Mulder, Wim H. van der Putten, Matthias C. Rillig, Madhav P. Thakur, Franciska T. de Vries, David A. Wardle, Christian Ammer, Sabine Ammer, Miwa Arai, Fredrick O. Ayuke, Geoff H. Baker, Dilmar Baretta, Dietmar Barkusky, Robin Beauséjour, Jose C. Bedano, Klaus Birkhofer, Eric Blanchart, Bernd Blossey, Thomas Bolger, Robert L. Bradley, Michel Brossard, James C. Burtis, Yvan Capowiez, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Amy Choi, Julia Clause, Daniel Cluzeau, Anja Coors, Felicity V. Crotty, Jasmine M. Crumsey, Andrea Dávalos, Darío J.Díaz Cosín, Annise M. Dobson, Anahí Domínguez, Andrés Esteban Duhour, Nick van Eekeren, Christoph Emmerling, Liliana B. Falco, Rosa Fernández, Steven J. Fonte, Carlos Fragoso, André L.C. Franco, Abegail Fusilero, Anna P. Geraskina, Shaieste Gholami, Grizelle González, Michael J. Gundale, Mónica Gutiérrez López, Branimir K. Hackenberger, Davorka K. Hackenberger, Luis M. Hernández, Jeff R. Hirth, Takuo Hishi, Andrew R. Holdsworth, Martin Holmstrup, Kristine N. Hopfensperger, Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Veikko Huhta, Tunsisa T. Hurisso, Basil V. Iannone, Madalina Iordache, Ulrich Irmler, Mari Ivask, Juan B. Jesús, Jodi L. Johnson-Maynard, Monika Joschko, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Radoslava Kanianska, Aidan M. Keith, Maria L. Kernecker, Armand W. Koné, Yahya Kooch, Sanna T. Kukkonen, H. Lalthanzara, Daniel R. Lammel, Iurii M. Lebedev, Edith Le Cadre, Noa K. Lincoln, Danilo López-Hernández, Scott R. Loss, Raphael Marichal, Radim Matula, Yukio Minamiya, Jan Hendrik Moos, Gerardo Moreno, Alejandro Morón-Ríos, Hasegawa Motohiro, Bart Muys, Johan Neirynck, Lindsey Norgrove, Marta Novo, Visa Nuutinen, Victoria Nuzzo, P. Mujeeb Rahman, Johan Pansu, Shishir Paudel, Guénola Pérès, Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho, Jean François Ponge, Jörg Prietzel, Irina B. Rapoport, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid, Salvador Rebollo, Miguel Rodríguez, Alexander M. Roth, Guillaume X. Rousseau, Anna Rozen, Ehsan Sayad, Loes van Schaik, Bryant Scharenbroch, Michael Schirrmann, Olaf Schmidt, Boris Schröder, Julia Seeber, Maxim P. Shashkov, Jaswinder Singh, Sandy M. Smith, Michael Steinwandter, Katalin Szlavecz, José Antonio Talavera, Dolores Trigo, Jiro Tsukamoto, Sheila Uribe-López, Anne W. de Valença, Iñigo Virto, Adrian A. Wackett, Matthew W. Warren, Emily R. Webster, Nathaniel H. Wehr, Joann K. Whalen, Michael B. Wironen, Volkmar Wolters, Pengfei Wu, Irina V. Zenkova, Weixin Zhang, Erin K. Cameron, Nico Eisenhauer

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Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.

Original language	English
Article number	136
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z
Publication status	Published - Dec 2021

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Phillips, H. R. P., Bach, E. M., Bartz, M. L. C., Bennett, J. M., Beugnon, R., Briones, M. J. I., Brown, G. G., Ferlian, O., Gongalsky, K. B., Guerra, C. A., König-Ries, B., Krebs, J. J., Orgiazzi, A., Ramirez, K. S., Russell, D. J., Schwarz, B., Wall, D. H., Brose, U., Decaëns, T., ... Eisenhauer, N. (2021). Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Scientific Data, 8(1), 1-12. [136]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z

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AU - Barkusky, Dietmar

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AU - Bedano, Jose C.

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AU - Hackenberger, Branimir K.

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AU - Le Cadre, Edith

AU - Lincoln, Noa K.

AU - López-Hernández, Danilo

AU - Loss, Scott R.

AU - Marichal, Raphael

AU - Matula, Radim

AU - Minamiya, Yukio

AU - Moos, Jan Hendrik

AU - Moreno, Gerardo

AU - Morón-Ríos, Alejandro

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AU - Muys, Bart

AU - Neirynck, Johan

AU - Norgrove, Lindsey

AU - Novo, Marta

AU - Nuutinen, Visa

AU - Nuzzo, Victoria

AU - Mujeeb Rahman, P.

AU - Pansu, Johan

AU - Paudel, Shishir

AU - Pérès, Guénola

AU - Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo

AU - Ponge, Jean François

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AU - Roth, Alexander M.

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AU - Sayad, Ehsan

AU - van Schaik, Loes

AU - Scharenbroch, Bryant

AU - Schirrmann, Michael

AU - Schmidt, Olaf

AU - Schröder, Boris

AU - Seeber, Julia

AU - Shashkov, Maxim P.

AU - Singh, Jaswinder

AU - Smith, Sandy M.

AU - Steinwandter, Michael

AU - Szlavecz, Katalin

AU - Talavera, José Antonio

AU - Trigo, Dolores

AU - Tsukamoto, Jiro

AU - Uribe-López, Sheila

AU - de Valença, Anne W.

AU - Virto, Iñigo

AU - Wackett, Adrian A.

AU - Warren, Matthew W.

AU - Webster, Emily R.

AU - Wehr, Nathaniel H.

AU - Whalen, Joann K.

AU - Wironen, Michael B.

AU - Wolters, Volkmar

AU - Wu, Pengfei

AU - Zenkova, Irina V.

AU - Zhang, Weixin

AU - Cameron, Erin K.

AU - Eisenhauer, Nico

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