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; 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-Barthélemy; 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 Á. 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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Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

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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, …

Scientific Data , Vol.8(1)

21/05/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00912-z

PMCID: PMC8140120

PMID: 34021166

Abstract

earthworm

Lumbricina

ecosystem approach

soil taxonomy

soil classification

data

relational database

biological diversity

biodiversity

biomass

spatial scale

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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Title: Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties
Creators - without role: Helen R. P. Phillips - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Elizabeth M. Bach - Colorado State University
Marie L. C. Bartz - University of Coimbra
Joanne M. Bennett - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Rémy Beugnon - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Maria J. I. Briones - Universidade de Vigo
George G. Brown - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
Olga Ferlian - Leipzig University
Konstantin B. Gongalsky - Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Carlos A. Guerra - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Birgitta König-Ries - Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Julia J. Krebs - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Alberto Orgiazzi - Joint Research Centre
Kelly S. Ramirez - Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Benjamin Schwarz - University of Freiburg
Diana H. Wall - Colorado State University
Ulrich Brose - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Thibaud Decaëns - Université de Montpellier, Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE
Patrick Lavelle - Sorbonne Université
Michel Loreau - Station d’Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale
Jérôme Mathieu - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Christian Mulder - University of Catania
Wim H. van Der Putten - Wageningen University & Research
Matthias C. Rillig - Freie Universität Berlin
Madhav P. Thakur - Netherlands Institute of Ecology
Franciska T. de Vries - Institute for Biodiversity
David A. Wardle - East Asia School of Theology
Christian Ammer - University of Göttingen
Sabine Ammer - University of Göttingen
Miwa Arai - National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Fredrick O. Ayuke - University of Nairobi
Geoff H. Baker - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Dilmar Baretta - Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
Dietmar Barkusky - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Robin Beauséjour - Université de Sherbrooke
Jose C. Bedano - National University of Río Cuarto
Klaus Birkhofer - Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
Eric Blanchart - Ecologie fonctionnelle & biogéochimie des sols & des agro-systèmes
Bernd Blossey - Department of Natural Resources & The Environment [CALS]
Thomas Bolger - University College Dublin
Robert L. Bradley - Université de Sherbrooke
Michel Brossard - Ecologie fonctionnelle & biogéochimie des sols & des agro-systèmes
James C. Burtis - Ithaca College
Yvan Capowiez - EMMAH - Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes
Timothy R. Cavagnaro - University of Adelaide
Amy Choi - University of Toronto
Julia Clause - Écologie et Biologie des Interactions
Daniel Cluzeau - Université de Rennes
Anja Coors - ECT Oekotoxikologie
Felicity V. Crotty - Aberystwyth University
Jasmine M. Crumsey - University of Georgia
Andrea Dávalos - State University of New York
Darío J. Díaz Cosín - Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution [Madrid]
Annise M. Dobson - Yale University
Anahí Domínguez - National University of Río Cuarto
Andrés Esteban Duhour - National University of Luján
Nick van Eekeren - Louis Bolk Institute
Christoph Emmerling - Universität Trier
Liliana B. Falco - National University of Luján
Rosa Fernández - Institut de Biologia Evolutiva
Steven J. Fonte - Department of Soil and Crop Sciences [Fort Collins]
Carlos Fragoso - Instituto de Ecología
André L. C. Franco - Colorado State University
Abegail Fusilero - University of the Philippines Mindanao
Anna P. Geraskina - Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity
Shaieste Gholami - Razi University
Grizelle González - US Forest Service
Michael J. Gundale - Swedish Forest Agency
Mónica Gutiérrez López - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Branimir K. Hackenberger - University of Osijek
Davorka K. Hackenberger - University of Osijek
Luis M. Hernández - Universidade Estadual do Maranhão
Jeff R. Hirth - Agriculture Victoria
Takuo Hishi - Kyushu University
Andrew R. Holdsworth - Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Martin Holmstrup - Aarhus University
Kristine N. Hopfensperger - Northern Kentucky University
Esperanza Huerta Lwanga - Wageningen University & Research
Veikko Huhta - University of Jyväskylä
Tunsisa T. Hurisso - Lincoln University - Missouri
Basil V. Iannone - University of Florida
Madalina Iordache - Univesity of Life Science "King Mihai I" from Timisoara
Ulrich Irmler - Kiel University
Mari Ivask - Tallinn University of Technology
Juan B. Jesús - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Jodi L. Johnson-Maynard - University of Idaho
Monika Joschko - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Nobuhiro Kaneko - Fukushima University
Radoslava Kanianska - Matej Bel University
Aidan M. Keith - UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maria L. Kernecker - Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Armand W. Koné - Université Nangui Abrogoua
Yahya Kooch - Tarbiat Modares University
Sanna T. Kukkonen - Natural Resources Institute Finland
H. Lalthanzara - Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College
Daniel R. Lammel - Freie Universität Berlin
Iurii M. Lebedev - Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Edith Le Cadre-Barthélemy - Society for Organizational Learning
Noa K. Lincoln - University of Hawaii System
Danilo López-Hernández - Central University of Venezuela
Scott R. Loss - Oklahoma State University
Raphael Marichal - Institut Agro Montpellier
Radim Matula - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Yukio Minamiya - Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
Jan Hendrik Moos - Thuenen-Institute of Biodiversity
Gerardo Moreno - Universidad de Extremadura
Alejandro Morón-Ríos - El Colegio de la Frontera Sur
Hasegawa Motohiro - Doshisha University
Bart Muys - KU Leuven
Johan Neirynck - Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Lindsey Norgrove - Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFUVET
Marta Novo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Visa Nuutinen - Natural Resources Institute Finland
Victoria Nuzzo - Natural Area Consultants
P. Mujeeb Rahman - Department of Zoology, PSMO College
Johan Pansu - CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Shishir Paudel - Oklahoma State University
Guénola Pérès - Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho - Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Jean-François Ponge - Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution
Jörg Prietzel - Technical University of Munich
Irina B. Rapoport - Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories
Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid - King Abdulaziz University
Salvador Rebollo - Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia
Miguel Á. Rodríguez - Universidad de Alcalá
Alexander M. Roth - Twin Cities Orthopedics
Guillaume X. Rousseau - Universidade Estadual do Maranhão
Anna Rozen - Jagiellonian University
Ehsan Sayad - Razi University
Loes van Schaik - Wageningen University & Research
Bryant Scharenbroch - University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point
Michael Schirrmann - Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy
Olaf Schmidt - University College Dublin
Boris Schröder - Technische Universität Braunschweig
Julia Seeber - Eurac Research
Maxim P. Shashkov - Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology
Jaswinder Singh - Government Medical College, Amritsar
Sandy M. Smith - Canada Research Chairs
Michael Steinwandter - Eurac Research
Katalin Szlavecz - University of Baltimore
José Antonio Talavera - Universidad de La Laguna
Dolores Trigo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Jiro Tsukamoto - Kōchi University
Sheila Uribe-López - Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco
Anne W. de Valença - Food & Agriculture, WWF-Netherlands
Iñigo Virto - Universidad Publica de Navarra
Adrian A. Wackett - Department of Soil, Water and Climate
Matthew W. Warren - Earth Island Institute
Emily R. Webster - University of California, Davis
Nathaniel H. Wehr - Louisiana Department of Natural Resources
Joann K. Whalen - Natural Resources Canada
Michael B. Wironen - The Nature Conservancy
Volkmar Wolters - University of Giessen
Pengfei Wu - Southwest Minzu University
Irina V. Zenkova - Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow]
Weixin Zhang - Henan Agricultural University
Erin K. Cameron - Saint Mary's University
Nico Eisenhauer - German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Publication Details: Scientific Data , Vol.8(1)
Grant note: 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's 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-a, 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); Sao 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'i at Manoa (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); Maranhao 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-BSV7-0020, ANR-09-STRA-0002, ANR 06 BIODIV 0009); 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); SEPAQ, 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; osterreichische Forschungsforderungsgesellschaft (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 Lujan y FONCyT (PICT 2293 (2006)); Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies du Quebec (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-97-14835); Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Dean's 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 (14-168); Program of Fundamental Researches of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences (AAAA-A18-118021490070-5); Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq 310690/2017-0, 404191/2019-3, 307486/2013-3); 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. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.
Identifiers: 9938745709311
Academic Unit: Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive - CEFE; Ecole Doctorale Biodiversité, Agriculture, Environnement, Alimentation, Terre, Eau - GAIA
Language: English
Resource Type: Dataset
Local Fields: hal-03233434