| Authors: |
Phillips, Helen R. P.; Bach, Elizabeth M.; Bartz, Marie L. C.; Bennett, Joanne M.; Beugnon, Rémy; Briones, Maria J. I.; Brown, George G.; Ferlian, Olga; Gongalsky, Konstantin B.; Guerra, Carlos A.; König-Ries, Birgitta; Krebs, Julia J.; Orgiazzi, Alberto; Ramirez, Kelly S.; Russell, David J.; Schwarz, Benjamin; Wall, Diana H.; Brose, Ulrich; Decaëns, Thibaud; Lavelle, Patrick; Loreau, Michel; Mathieu, Jérôme; Mulder, Christian; van der Putten, Wim H.; Rillig, Matthias C.; Thakur, Madhav P.; de Vries, Franciska T.; Wardle, David A.; Ammer, Christian; Ammer, Sabine; Arai, Miwa; Ayuke, Fredrick O.; Baker, Geoff H.; Baretta, Dilmar; Barkusky, Dietmar; Beauséjour, Robin; Bedano, Jose C.; Birkhofer, Klaus; Blanchart, Eric; Blossey, Bernd; Bolger, Thomas; Bradley, Robert L.; Brossard, Michel; Burtis, James C.; Capowiez, Yvan; Cavagnaro, Timothy R.; Choi, Amy; Clause, Julia; Cluzeau, Daniel; Coors, Anja; Crotty, Felicity V.; Crumsey, Jasmine M.; Dávalos, Andrea; Cosín, Darío J. Díaz; Dobson, Annise M.; Domínguez, Anahí; Duhour, Andrés Esteban; van Eekeren, Nick; Emmerling, Christoph; Falco, Liliana B.; Fernández, Rosa; Fonte, Steven J.; Fragoso, Carlos; Franco, André L. C.; Fusilero, Abegail; Geraskina, Anna P.; Gholami, Shaieste; González, Grizelle; Gundale, Michael J.; López, Mónica Gutiérrez; Hackenberger, Branimir K.; Hackenberger, Davorka K.; Hernández, Luis M.; Hirth, Jeff R.; Hishi, Takuo; Holdsworth, Andrew R.; Holmstrup, Martin; Hopfensperger, Kristine N.; Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta; Huhta, Veikko; Hurisso, Tunsisa T.; Iannone, Basil V.; Iordache, Madalina; Irmler, Ulrich; Ivask, Mari; Jesús, Juan B.; Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L.; Joschko, Monika; Kaneko, Nobuhiro; Kanianska, Radoslava; Keith, Aidan M.; Kernecker, Maria L.; Koné, Armand W.; Kooch, Yahya; Kukkonen, Sanna T.; Lalthanzara, H.; Lammel, Daniel R.; Lebedev, Iurii M.; Le Cadre, Edith; Lincoln, Noa K.; López-Hernández, Danilo; Loss, Scott R.; Marichal, Raphael; Matula, Radim; Minamiya, Yukio; Moos, Jan Hendrik; Moreno, Gerardo; Morón-Ríos, Alejandro; Motohiro, Hasegawa; Muys, Bart; Neirynck, Johan; Norgrove, Lindsey; Novo, Marta; Nuutinen, Visa; Nuzzo, Victoria; Mujeeb Rahman, P.; Pansu, Johan; Paudel, Shishir; Pérès, Guénola; Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo; Ponge, Jean-François; Prietzel, Jörg; Rapoport, Irina B.; Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz; Rebollo, Salvador; Rodríguez, Miguel Á.; Roth, Alexander M.; Rousseau, Guillaume X.; Rozen, Anna; Sayad, Ehsan; van Schaik, Loes; Scharenbroch, Bryant; Schirrmann, Michael; Schmidt, Olaf; Schröder, Boris; Seeber, Julia; Shashkov, Maxim P.; Singh, Jaswinder; Smith, Sandy M.; Steinwandter, Michael; Szlavecz, Katalin; Talavera, José Antonio; Trigo, Dolores; Tsukamoto, Jiro; Uribe-López, Sheila; de Valença, Anne W.; Virto, Iñigo; Wackett, Adrian A.; Warren, Matthew W.; Webster, Emily R.; Wehr, Nathaniel H.; Whalen, Joann K.; Wironen, Michael B.; Wolters, Volkmar; Wu, Pengfei; Zenkova, Irina V.; Zhang, Weixin; Cameron, Erin K.; Eisenhauer, Nico; Department of Environmental Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada; Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA; Center of Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martins de Freitas, Coimbra, Portugal; Centre for Applied Water Science, Institute for Applied Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia; Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany; Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain; Embrapa Forestry, Estrada da Ribeira, Colombo, Brazil; M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany; Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy; Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands; Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz, Department of Soil Zoology, Görlitz, Germany; Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena, Germany; CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France; Sorbonne Université, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement, Paris, France; Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Moulis, France; INRA, IRD, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, Paris, France; Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy; Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore; Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan; Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, Kigali, Rwanda; Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia; Department of Animal Science, Santa Catarina State University, Chapecó, Brazil; Experimental Infrastructure Platform (EIP), Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany; Départment de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; Geology Department, FCEFQyN, ICBIA-CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), National University of Rio Cuarto, Río Cuarto, Argentina; Department of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany; Eco&Sols, Univ Montpellier, IRD, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France; Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland; Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA; EMMAH, UMR 1114, INRA, Site Agroparc, Avignon, France; The School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The Waite Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond, Australia; Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Laboratoire Écologie et Biologie des Interactions, équipe EES, UMR CNRS 7267, Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France; UMR ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution) CNRS-Université de Rennes, Station Biologique, Paimpont, France; ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Floersheim, Germany; School for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, United Kingdom; Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, USA; Department of Biological Sciencies, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, USA; Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University Complutense of Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, USA; Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina - INEDES (Universidad Nacional de Luján - CONICET), Luján, Argentina; Louis Bolk Institute, Bunnik, The Netherlands; Department of Soil Science, University of Trier, Trier, Germany; Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Instituto de Ecología y Desarrollo Sustentable, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Luján, Argentina; Animal Biodiversity and Evolution, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona, Spain; Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA; Biodiversity and Systematic Network, Institute of Ecology A.C., El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico; Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology, Environmental Toxicology Unit - GhEnToxLab, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS, Moscow, Russia; Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran; United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden; Department of Biology, University of Osijek, Osijek, Croatia; Agriculture engineering, Agroecology Postgraduate Program, Maranhão State University, São Luis, Brazil; Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria, Rutherglen, Australia; Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, St Paul, USA; Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Biological Science, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, USA; Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland; College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences, Lincoln University of Missouri, Jefferson City, USA; School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA; Sustainable Development and Environmental Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat “King Michael the 1st of Romania” from Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania; Institute for Ecosystem Research, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany; Tartu College, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu, Estonia; Department of Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, Moscow, USA; Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan; Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia; UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom; Land Use and Governance, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Müncheberg, Germany; UFR Sciences de la Nature, UR Gestion Durable des Sols, Université Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire; Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Noor, Iran; Production Systems, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, India; Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia; SAS, INRAE, Institut Agro, Rennes, France; Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA; Ecologia Aplicada, Instituto de Zoologia y Ecologia Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Los Chaguaramos, Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas, Venezuela; Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, Ag Hall, USA; UPR Systèmes de Pérennes, CIRAD, Univ Montpellier, TA B-34/02 Avenue Agropolis, Montpellier, France; Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic; Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Utsunomiya, Japan; Thuenen-Institute of Organic Farming, Westerau, Germany; Plant Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, INDEHESA, University of Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain; Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Av. Rancho, Campeche, Mexico; Department of Environmental Systems Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan; Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Geraardsbergen, Belgium; School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Zollikofen, Switzerland; Soil Ecosystems, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Jokioinen, Finland; Natural Area Consultants, Richford, USA; Department of Zoology, PSMO College, Tirurangadi, Malappuram, Kerala, India, Malappuram, India; UMR7144 Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS/Sorbonne Université, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France; Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, USA; UMR SAS, INRAE, Institut Agro Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France; Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, Alcalá De Henares, Spain; Adaptations du Vivant, CNRS UMR 7179, Brunoy, France; Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany; Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nalchik, Russia; Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Global Change Ecology and Evolution Research Group (GloCEE), Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, Alcalá De Henares, Spain; Friends of the Mississippi River, St Paul, USA; Biology, Biodiversity and Conservation Postgraduate Program, Federal University of Maranhão, São Luis, Brazil; Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, USA; Department Engineering for Crop Production, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Potsdam, Germany; UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis, Institute of Geoecology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany; Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy; Laboratory of Computational Ecology, Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS – the Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia; Department of Zoology, Khalsa College Amritsar, Amritsar, India; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; Department of animal biology, edaphology and geology, Faculty of Sciences (Biology), University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain; Forest Science, Kochi University, Nankoku, Japan; Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco, Nanotechnology Engineering, Multidisciplinary Academic Division of Jalpa de Méndez, Carr. Estatal libre Villahermosa-Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico; Unit Food & Agriculture, WWF-Netherlands, Zeist, The Netherlands; Dpto. Ciencias, IS-FOOD, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Edificio Olivos - Campus Arrosadia, Pamplona, Spain; Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, St Paul, USA; Earth Innovation Institute, San Francisco, USA; University of California Davis, Davis, USA; Natural Resources & Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA; Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada; The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, USA; Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany; Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, China; Laboratory of terrestrial ecosystems, Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems (INEP KSC RAS), Akademgorodok, Murmansk, Russia; Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions (Henan University), Ministry of Education, College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng, China; Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Post Office Box 65, FI 00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland |
| Contributors: |
Phillips, Helen R. P.; Bach, Elizabeth M.; Bartz, Marie L. C.; Bennett, Joanne M.; Beugnon, Rémy; Briones, Maria J. I.; Brown, George G.; Ferlian, Olga; Gongalsky, Konstantin B.; Guerra, Carlos A.; König-Ries, Birgitta; Krebs, Julia J.; Orgiazzi, Alberto; Ramirez, Kelly S.; Russell, David J.; Schwarz, Benjamin; Wall, Diana H.; Brose, Ulrich; Decaëns, Thibaud; Lavelle, Patrick; Loreau, Michel; Mathieu, Jérôme; Mulder, Christian; van der Putten, Wim H.; Rillig, Matthias C.; Thakur, Madhav P.; de Vries, Franciska T.; Wardle, David A.; Ammer, Christian; Ammer, Sabine; Arai, Miwa; Ayuke, Fredrick O.; Baker, Geoff H.; Baretta, Dilmar; Barkusky, Dietmar; Beauséjour, Robin; Bedano, Jose C.; Birkhofer, Klaus; Blanchart, Eric; Blossey, Bernd; Bolger, Thomas; Bradley, Robert L.; Brossard, Michel; Burtis, James C.; Capowiez, Yvan; Cavagnaro, Timothy R.; Choi, Amy; Clause, Julia; Cluzeau, Daniel; Coors, Anja; Crotty, Felicity V.; Crumsey, Jasmine M.; Dávalos, Andrea; Cosín, Darío J. Díaz; Dobson, Annise M.; Domínguez, Anahí; Duhour, Andrés Esteban; van Eekeren, Nick; Emmerling, Christoph; Falco, Liliana B.; Fernández, Rosa; Fonte, Steven J.; Fragoso, Carlos; Franco, André L. C.; Fusilero, Abegail; Geraskina, Anna P.; Gholami, Shaieste; González, Grizelle; Gundale, Michael J.; López, Mónica Gutiérrez; Hackenberger, Branimir K.; Hackenberger, Davorka K.; Hernández, Luis M.; Hirth, Jeff R.; Hishi, Takuo; Holdsworth, Andrew R.; Holmstrup, Martin; Hopfensperger, Kristine N.; Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta; Huhta, Veikko; Hurisso, Tunsisa T.; Iannone, Basil V.; Iordache, Madalina; Irmler, Ulrich; Ivask, Mari; Jesús, Juan B.; Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L.; Joschko, Monika; Kaneko, Nobuhiro; Kanianska, Radoslava; Keith, Aidan M.; Kernecker, Maria L.; Koné, Armand W.; Kooch, Yahya; Kukkonen, Sanna T.; Lalthanzara, H.; Lammel, Daniel R.; Lebedev, Iurii M.; Le Cadre, Edith; Lincoln, Noa K. |
| Description: |
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. |