Abstract
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 The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets.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 | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2021 |
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In: Scientific Data, Vol. 8, No. 1, 136, 12.2021, p. 1-12.
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T1 - Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties
AU - Phillips, Helen R.P.
AU - Bach, Elizabeth M.
AU - Bartz, Marie L.C.
AU - Bennett, Joanne M.
AU - Beugnon, Rémy
AU - Briones, Maria J.I.
AU - Brown, George G.
AU - Ferlian, Olga
AU - Gongalsky, Konstantin B.
AU - Guerra, Carlos A.
AU - König-Ries, Birgitta
AU - Krebs, Julia J.
AU - Orgiazzi, Alberto
AU - Ramirez, Kelly S.
AU - Russell, David J.
AU - Schwarz, Benjamin
AU - Wall, Diana H.
AU - Brose, Ulrich
AU - Decaëns, Thibaud
AU - Lavelle, Patrick
AU - Loreau, Michel
AU - Mathieu, Jérôme
AU - Mulder, Christian
AU - van der Putten, Wim H.
AU - Rillig, Matthias C.
AU - Thakur, Madhav P.
AU - de Vries, Franciska T.
AU - Wardle, David A.
AU - Ammer, Christian
AU - Ammer, Sabine
AU - Arai, Miwa
AU - Ayuke, Fredrick O.
AU - Baker, Geoff H.
AU - Baretta, Dilmar
AU - Barkusky, Dietmar
AU - Beauséjour, Robin
AU - Bedano, Jose C.
AU - Birkhofer, Klaus
AU - Blanchart, Eric
AU - Blossey, Bernd
AU - Bolger, Thomas
AU - Bradley, Robert L.
AU - Brossard, Michel
AU - Burtis, James C.
AU - Capowiez, Yvan
AU - Cavagnaro, Timothy R.
AU - Choi, Amy
AU - Clause, Julia
AU - Cluzeau, Daniel
AU - Coors, Anja
AU - Crotty, Felicity V.
AU - Crumsey, Jasmine M.
AU - Dávalos, Andrea
AU - Cosín, Darío J.Díaz
AU - Dobson, Annise M.
AU - Domínguez, Anahí
AU - Duhour, Andrés Esteban
AU - van Eekeren, Nick
AU - Emmerling, Christoph
AU - Falco, Liliana B.
AU - Fernández, Rosa
AU - Fonte, Steven J.
AU - Fragoso, Carlos
AU - Franco, André L.C.
AU - Fusilero, Abegail
AU - Geraskina, Anna P.
AU - Gholami, Shaieste
AU - González, Grizelle
AU - Gundale, Michael J.
AU - López, Mónica Gutiérrez
AU - Hackenberger, Branimir K.
AU - Hackenberger, Davorka K.
AU - Hernández, Luis M.
AU - Hirth, Jeff R.
AU - Hishi, Takuo
AU - Holdsworth, Andrew R.
AU - Holmstrup, Martin
AU - Hopfensperger, Kristine N.
AU - Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta
AU - Huhta, Veikko
AU - Hurisso, Tunsisa T.
AU - Iannone, Basil V.
AU - Iordache, Madalina
AU - Irmler, Ulrich
AU - Ivask, Mari
AU - Jesús, Juan B.
AU - Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L.
AU - Joschko, Monika
AU - Kaneko, Nobuhiro
AU - Kanianska, Radoslava
AU - Keith, Aidan M.
AU - Kernecker, Maria L.
AU - Koné, Armand W.
AU - Kooch, Yahya
AU - Kukkonen, Sanna T.
AU - Lalthanzara, H.
AU - Lammel, Daniel R.
AU - Lebedev, Iurii M.
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
AU - Motohiro, Hasegawa
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
AU - Prietzel, Jörg
AU - Rapoport, Irina B.
AU - Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz
AU - Rebollo, Salvador
AU - Rodríguez, Miguel
AU - Roth, Alexander M.
AU - Rousseau, Guillaume X.
AU - Rozen, Anna
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
N1 - Funding Information: This database and paper are a product of two sWorm workshops at sDiv, the synthesis center at iDiv. We thank M. Winter and the sDiv team for their help in organizing the sWorm workshops, and the Biodiversity Informatics Unit (BDU) at iDiv for their assistance in making the data open access. H.R.P.P., B.K-R., and the sWorm workshops were supported by the sDiv [Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (DFG FZT 118)]. H.R.P.P., O.F. and N.E. acknowledge funding by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 677232 to NE). K.S.R. and W.H.v.d.P. were supported by ERC-ADV grant 323020 to W.H.v.d.P. Also supported by iDiv (DFG FZT118) Flexpool proposal 34600850 (C.A.G. and N.E.); the Academy of Finland (285882) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (postdoctoral fellowship and RGPIN-2019-05758) (E.K.C.); German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (01LO0901A) (D.J.R.); ERC-AdG 694368 (M.R.); the TULIP Laboratory of Excellence (ANR-10-LABX-41) (M.L); and the BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship to F.T.d.V. (BB/L02456X/1). In addition, data collection was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (12-04-01538-\u0430, 12-04-01734-a, 14-44-03666-r_center_a, 15-29-02724-ofi_m, 16-04-01878-a 19-05-00245, 19-04-00-609-a); Tarbiat Modares University; Aurora Organic Dairy; UGC(NERO) (F. 1-6/Acctt./NERO/2007-08/1485); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (RGPIN-2017-05391); Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-0098-12); Science for Global Development through Wageningen University; Norman Borlaug LEAP Programme and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); S\u00E3o Paulo Research Foundation - FAPESP (12/22510-8); Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station; INIA - Spanish Agency (SUM 2006-00012-00-0); Royal Canadian Geographical Society; Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) (2005-S-LS-8); University of Hawai\u2019i at M\u0101noa (HAW01127H; HAW01123M); European Union FP7 (FunDivEurope, 265171; ROUTES 265156); U.S. Department of the Navy, Commander Pacific Fleet (W9126G-13-2-0047); Science and Engineering Research Board (SB/SO/AS-030/2013) Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India; Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) of the U.S. Department of Defense (RC-1542); Maranh\u00E3o State Research Foundation (FAPEMA 03135/13, 02471/17); Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES 3281/2013); Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (LTT17033); Colorado Wheat Research Foundation; Zone Atelier Alpes, French National Research Agency (ANR-11-BSV7-020-01, ANR-09-STRA-02-01, ANR 06 BIODIV 009-01); Austrian Science Fund (P16027, T441); Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank Frankfurt am Main; Welsh Government and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (Project Ref. A AAB 62 03 qA731606); S\u00C9PAQ, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland; Science Foundation Ireland (EEB0061); University of Toronto (Faculty of Forestry); National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada; Haliburton Forest & Wildlife Reserve; NKU College of Arts & Sciences Grant; \u00D6sterreichische Forschungsf\u00F6rderungsgesellschaft (837393 and 837426); Mountain Agriculture Research Unit of the University of Innsbruck; Higher Education Commission of Pakistan; Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala; UNEP/GEF/TSBF-CIAT Project on Conservation and Sustainable Management of Belowground Biodiversity; Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland; Complutense University of Madrid/European Union FP7 project BioBio (FPU UCM 613520); GRDC; AWI; LWRRDC; DRDC; CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) and FONCyT (National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion) (PICT, PAE, PIP), Universidad Nacional de Luj\u00E1n y FONCyT (PICT 2293 (2006)); Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies du Qu\u00E9bec (131894); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SCHR1000/3-1, SCHR1000/6-1, 6-2 (FOR 1598), WO 670/7-1, WO 670/7-2, & SCHA 1719/1-2), CONACYT (FONDOS MIXTOS TABASCO/PROYECTO11316); NSF (DGE-0549245, DGE-0549245, DEB-BE-0909452, NSF1241932, LTER Program DEB-97\u201314835); Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Dean\u2019s Scholar Program at UIC; Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry from the Casey Tree Endowment Fund; J.E. Weaver Competitive Grant from the Nebraska Chapter of The Nature Conservancy; The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Depaul University; Elmore Hadley Award for Research in Ecology and Evolution from the UIC Dept. of Biological Sciences, Spanish CICYT (AMB96-1161; REN2000-0783/GLO; REN2003-05553/GLO; REN2003-03989/GLO; CGL2007-60661/ BOS); Yokohama National University; MEXT KAKENHI (25220104); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI (25281053, 17KT0074, 25252026); ADEME (0775C0035); Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain (CGL2017-86926-P); Syngenta Philippines; UPSTREAM; LTSER (Val Mazia/Matschertal); Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (747607); National Science & Technology Base Resource Survey Project of China (2018FY100306); McKnight Foundation (14\u2013168); Program of Fundamental Researches of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (A\u0410\u0410\u0410-A18\u2013118021490070\u20135); Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq 310690/2017\u20130, 404191/2019\u20133, 307486/2013\u20133); French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs; Bavarian Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (Project No B62); INRA AIDY project; MIUR PRIN 2008; Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station; Estonian Science Foundation; Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Canada; Russian Science Foundation (16-17-10284); National Natural Science Foundation of China (41371270); Australian Research Council (FT120100463); USDA Forest Service-IITF. The authors would like to thank all supervisors, students, collaborators, technicians, data analysts, land owners/managers, and anyone else involved with the collection, processing, and/or publication of the primary datasets, both for this manuscript and16. Namely: Peter M. Kotanen, Jessica G. Davis, S.N. Ramanujam, J.M. Julka, Csaba Csuzdi, P. Bescansa, M. Moriones, C. Gonz\u00E1lez, Creighton Litton, Danielle Celentano, Sandriel Sousa, Samuel James, C. Hakseth, C. Mills, Hirohi Takeda, Sandriel Sousa Costa, Kyungsoo Yoo, Sebastien De Danieli, Philippe Choler, Pierre Taberlet, Lauric Cecillon, Erwin Meyer, Felix Gerlach, Doris Beutler, Christina Marley, Rhun Fychan, Ruth Sanderson, Mervi Nieminen, Taisto Sir\u00E9n, Mariana Alem, Carlos Regalsky, Tara Sackett, Erin Bayne, Sarah Hamilton, Alexander Rief, Catarina Praxedes, Rosana Sandler, Juliane Palm, Anne Zangerl\u00E9, Anne-Kathrin Schneider, Erwin Zehe, David H. Wise, Liam Heneghan, Yoshikazu Kawaguchi, Irene L. L\u00F3pez-Sa\u00F1udo, Almudena Mateos, Pilar Mel\u00E9ndez, Raquel Santos, Marta Yebra, Tamara Vsevolodova-Perel, Maxim Bobrovsky, Natalya Ivanova, Eufemio Rasco Jr., Robert W. Mys\u0142ajek, Jianxiong Li, Jiangping Qiu, A. Barne, Antonio G\u00F3mez-Sal, Tanya Handa, Mark Vellend, Hans de Wandeler, Sarah Placella, Lee Frelich, Peter Reich. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z
DO - 10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z
M3 - Other Journal Article
C2 - 34021166
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SN - 2052-4463
VL - 8
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JO - Scientific Data
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