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

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Phillips, Helen R. P. ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Bach, Elizabeth M. ^{[4, 5, 6]} ; Bartz, Marie L. C. ^{[7, 8]} ; Bennett, Joanne M. ^{[9, 2, 10]} ; Beugnon, Remy ^{[2, 3]} ; Briones, Maria J. I. ^[11] ; Brown, George G. ^[12] ; Ferlian, Olga ^{[2, 3]} ; Gongalsky, Konstantin B. ^{[13, 14]} ; Guerra, Carlos A. ^{[9, 2]} ; Koenig-Ries, Birgitta ^{[2, 15]} ; Krebs, Julia J. ^{[2, 3]} ; Orgiazzi, Alberto ^[16] ; Ramirez, Kelly S. ^[17] ; Russell, David J. ^[18] ; Schwarz, Benjamin ^[19] ; Wall, Diana H. ^{[4, 5, 6]} ; Brose, Ulrich ^{[2, 20]} ; Decaens, Thibaud ^[21] ; Lavelle, Patrick ^[22] ; Loreau, Michel ^[23] ; Mathieu, Jerome ^{[24, 25]} ; Mulder, Christian ^[26] ; van der Putten, Wim H. ^{[17, 27]} ; Rillig, Matthias C. ^[28] ; Thakur, Madhav P. ^[17] ; de Vries, Franciska T. ^[29] ; Wardle, David A. ^[30] ; Ammer, Christian ^{[31, 32]} ; Ammer, Sabine ^[33] ; Arai, Miwa ^[34] ; Ayuke, Fredrick O. ^{[35, 36]} ; Baker, Geoff H. ^[37] ; Baretta, Dilmar ^[38] ; Barkusky, Dietmar ^[39] ; Beausejour, Robin ^[40] ; Bedano, Jose C. ^[41] ; Birkhofer, Klaus ^[42] ; Blanchart, Eric ^[43] ; Blossey, Bernd ^[44] ; Bolger, Thomas ^{[45, 46]} ; Bradley, Robert L. ^[40] ; Brossard, Michel ^[43] ; Burtis, James C. ^[47] ; Capowiez, Yvan ^[48] ; Cavagnaro, Timothy R. ^[49] ; Choi, Amy ^[50] ; Clause, Julia ^[51] ; Cluzeau, Daniel ^[52] ; Coors, Anja ^[53] ; Crotty, Felicity V. ^{[54, 55]} ; Crumsey, Jasmine M. ^[56] ; Davalos, Andrea ^[57] ; Diaz Cosin, Dario J. ^[58] ; Dobson, Annise M. ^[59] ; Dominguez, Anahi ^[41] ; Esteban Duhour, Andres ^[60] ; van Eekeren, Nick ^[61] ; Emmerling, Christoph ^[62] ; Falco, Liliana B. ^[63] ; Fernandez, Rosa ^[64] ; Fonte, Steven J. ^[65] ; Fragoso, Carlos ^[66] ; Franco, Andre L. C. ^[67] ; Fusilero, Abegail ^{[68, 69]} ; Geraskina, Anna P. ^[70] ; Gholami, Shaieste ^[71] ; Gonzalez, Grizelle ^[72] ; Gundale, Michael J. ^[73] ; Gutierrez Lopez, Monica ^[58] ; Hackenberger, Branimir K. ^[74] ; Hackenberger, Davorka K. ^[74] ; Hernandez, Luis M. ^[75] ; Hirth, Jeff R. ^[76] ; Hishi, Takuo ^[77] ; Holdsworth, Andrew R. ^[78] ; Holmstrup, Martin ^[79] ; Hopfensperger, Kristine N. ^[80] ; Huerta Lwanga, Esperanza ^{[81, 82]} ; Huhta, Veikko ^[83] ; Hurisso, Tunsisa T. ^{[84, 65]} ; Iannone, III, Basil V. ; Iordache, Madalina ^[85] ; Irmler, Ulrich ^[86] ; Ivask, Mari ^[87] ; Jesus, Juan B. ^[58] ; Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L. ^[88] ; Joschko, Monika ^[39] ; Kaneko, Nobuhiro ^[89] ; Kanianska, Radoslava ^[90] ; Keith, Aidan M. ^[91] ; Kernecker, Maria L. ^[92] ; Kone, Armand W. ^[93] ; Kooch, Yahya ^[94] ; Kukkonen, Sanna T. ^[95] ; Lalthanzara, H. ^[96] ; Lammel, Daniel R. ^[28] ; Lebedev, Iurii M. ^{[13, 14, 97]} ; Le Cadre, Edith ^[98] ; Lincoln, Noa K. ^[99] ; Lopez-Hernandez, Danilo ^[100] ; Loss, Scott R. ^[101] ; Marichal, Raphael ^[102] ; Matula, Radim ^[103] ; Minamiya, Yukio ^[104] ; Moos, Jan Hendrik ^{[105, 106]} ; Moreno, Gerardo ^[107] ; Moron-Rios, Alejandro ^[108] ; Motohiro, Hasegawa ^[109] ; Muys, Bart ^[110] ; Neirynck, Johan ^[111] ; Norgrove, Lindsey ^[112] ; Novo, Marta ^[58] ; Nuutinen, Visa ^[113] ; Nuzzo, Victoria ^[114] ; Rahman, P. Mujeeb ^[115] ; Pansu, Johan ^{[116, 117]} ; Paudel, Shishir ^{[101, 118]} ; Peres, Guenola ^{[52, 119]} ; Perez-Camacho, Lorenzo ^[120] ; Ponge, Jean-Francois ^[121] ; Prietzel, Joerg ^[122] ; Rapoport, Irina B. ^[123] ; Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz ^[124] ; Rebollo, Salvador ^[120] ; Rodriguez, Miguel A. ^[125] ; Roth, Alexander M. ^{[126, 127]} ; Rousseau, Guillaume X. ^{[75, 128]} ; Rozen, Anna ^[129] ; Sayad, Ehsan ^[71] ; van Schaik, Loes ^[82] ; Scharenbroch, Bryant ^{[130, 131]} ; Schirrmann, Michael ^[132] ; Schmidt, Olaf ^{[133, 134]} ; Schroeder, Boris ^[135] ; Seeber, Julia ^{[136, 137]} ; Shashkov, Maxim P. ^{[138, 139]} ; Singh, Jaswinder ^[140] ; Smith, Sandy M. ^[50] ; Steinwandter, Michael ^[137] ; Szlavecz, Katalin ^[141] ; Antonio Talavera, Jose ^[142] ; Trigo, Dolores ^[58] ; Tsukamoto, Jiro ^[143] ; Uribe-Lopez, Sheila ^[144] ; de Valenca, Anne W. ^[145] ; Virto, Inigo ^[146] ; Wackett, Adrian A. ^[147] ; Warren, Matthew W. ^[148] ; Webster, Emily R. ^[149] ; Wehr, Nathaniel H. ^[150] ; Whalen, Joann K. ^[151] ; Wironen, Michael B. ^[152] ; Wolters, Volkmar ^[153] ; Wu, Pengfei ^[154] ; Zenkova, Irina V. ^[155] ; Zhang, Weixin ^[156] ; Cameron, Erin K. ^{[1, 157]} ; Eisenhauer, Nico ^{[2, 3]}

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^[2] German Ctr Integrat Biodivers Res iDiv, Puschstr 4, D-04103 Leipzig - Germany

^[3] Univ Leipzig, Inst Biol, Puschstr 4, D-04103 Leipzig - Germany

^[4] Colorado State Univ, Dept Biol, Ft Collins, CO 80523 - USA

^[5] Colorado State Univ, Sch Global Environm Sustainabil, Ft Collins, CO 80523 - USA

^[6] Colorado State Univ, Global Soil Biodivers Initiat, Ft Collins, CO 80523 - USA

^[7] Univ Positivo, Rua Prof Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza 5300, BR-81280330 Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[8] Univ Coimbra, Dept Life Sci, Ctr Funct Ecol, P-3000456 Coimbra - Portugal

^[9] Martin Luther Univ Halle Wittenberg, Inst Biol, Kirchtor 1, D-06108 Halle, Saale - Germany

^[10] Univ Canberra, Inst Appl Ecol, Fac Sci & Technol, Ctr Appl Water Sci, Canberra, ACT - Australia

^[11] Univ Vigo, Dept Ecol Biol Anim, Vigo 36310 - Spain

^[12] Embrapa Forestry, Estrada Ribeira, Km 111, CP 231, BR-83411000 Colombo, PR - Brazil

^[13] Russian Acad Sci, AN Severtsov Inst Ecol & Evolut, Leninsky Pr 33, Moscow 119071 - Russia

^[14] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Leninskie Gory 1, Moscow 119991 - Russia

^[15] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Inst Comp Sci, Ernst Abbe Pl 2, D-07743 Jena - Germany

^[16] European Commiss, Joint Res Ctr JRC, Ispra - Italy

^[17] Netherlands Inst Ecol NIOO KNAW, Dept Terr Ecol, NL-6700 AB Wageningen - Netherlands

^[18] Senckenberg Museum Nat Hist Gorlitz, Dept Soil Zool, D-02826 Gorlitz - Germany

^[19] Univ Freiburg, Biometry & Environm Syst Anal, Tennenbacher Str 4, D-79106 Freiburg - Germany

^[20] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Inst Biodivers, Dornburger Str 159, D-07743 Jena - Germany

^[21] Univ Montpellier, CEFE, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Paul Valery Montpellier 3, Montpellier - France

^[22] Sorbonne Univ, Inst Ecol & Sci Environm, F-75005 Paris - France

^[23] CNRS, Theoret & Expt Ecol Stn, Ctr Biodivers Theory & Modelling, F-09200 Moulis - France

^[24] UPMC, Sorbonne Univ, Inst Ecol & Environm Sci Paris UMR 7618 IEES Pari, CNRS, INRA, IRD, UPEC, 4 Pl Jussieu, F-75000 Paris - France

^[25] INRA, Inst Ecol & Sci Environm Paris, IRD, F-75005 Paris - France

^[26] Univ Catania, Dept Biol Geol & Environm Sci, Via Androne 81, I-95124 Catania - Italy

^[27] Wageningen Univ, Lab Nematol, POB 8123, NL-6700 ES Wageningen - Netherlands

^[28] Free Univ Berlin, Inst Biol, D-14195 Berlin - Germany

^[29] Univ Amsterdam, Inst Biodivers & Ecosyst Dynam, Amsterdam - Netherlands

^[30] Nanyang Technol Univ, Asian Sch Environm, Singapore 639798 - Singapore

^[31] Univ Gottingen, Ctr Biodivers & Sustainable Landuse, Busgenweg 1, Gottingen - Germany

^[32] Univ Gottingen, Silviculture & Forest Ecol Temperate Zones, Busgenweg 1, Gottingen - Germany

^[33] Univ Gottingen, Forest Sci & Forest Ecol, Busgenweg 1, Gottingen - Germany

^[34] Natl Agr & Food Res Org, Inst Agroenvironm Sci, 3-1-3 Kan Nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki - Japan

^[35] Univ Nairobi, Land Resource Management & Agr Technol, Kapenguria Rd, Naivasha Rd, POB 29053, Nairobi - Kenya

^[36] Rwanda Inst Conservat Agr, KG 541, Kigali - Rwanda

^[37] CSIRO, Hlth & Biosecur, POB 1700, Canberra, ACT - Australia

^[38] Santa Catarina State Univ, Dept Anim Sci, BR-89815630 Chapeco, SC - Brazil

^[39] Leibniz Ctr Agr Landscape Res, Expt Infrastruct Platform EIP, Eberswalder Str 84, Muncheberg - Germany

^[40] Univ Sherbrooke, Dept Biol, Sherbrooke, PQ - Canada

^[41] Natl Univ Rio Cuarto, Dept Geol, FCEFQyN, ICBIA CONICET Natl Sci & Tech Res Council, Ruta 36 Km, RA-601 Rio Cuarto - Argentina

^[42] Brandenburg Tech Univ Cottbus, Dept Ecol, Konrad Wachsmann Allee 6, Cottbus - Germany

^[43] Univ Montpellier, Eco&Sols, Inst Agro, IRD, INRAE, CIRAD, Montpellier - France

^[44] Cornell Univ, Nat Resources, Ithaca, NY - USA

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^[61] Louis Bolk Inst, Kosterijland 3-5, Bunnik - Netherlands

^[62] Univ Trier, Dept Soil Sci, Campus II, Behringstr 21, Trier - Germany

^[63] Univ Nacl Lujan, Inst Ecol & Desarrollo Sustentable, Dept Ciencias Basicas, Ave Constituc & Ruta 5, Lujan, Buenos Aires - Argentina

^[64] Inst Evolutionary Biol, Anim Biodivers & Evolut, Passeig Maritim Barceloneta 37, Barcelona - Spain

^[65] Colorado State Univ, Dept Soil & Crop Sci, 1170 Campus Delivery, Ft Collins, CO 80523 - USA

^[66] Inst Ecol AC, Biodivers & Systemat Network, Xalapa 91070, Veracruz - Mexico

^[67] Colorado State Univ, Dept Biol, 200 West Lake St, Ft Collins, CO 80523 - USA

^[68] Univ Philippines Mindanao, Dept Biol Sci & Environm Studies, Davao - Philippines

^[69] Univ Ghent, Lab Environm Toxicol & Aquat Ecol, Environm Toxicol Unit, GhEnToxLab, Campus Coupure, Coupure Links 653, Ghent - Belgium

^[70] Ctr Forest Ecol & Prod RAS, Profsoyuznaya St 84-32 Bldg 14, Moscow - Russia

^[71] Razi Univ, Kermanshah - Iran

^[72] USDA, Forest Serv, Int Inst Trop Forestry, 1201 Ceiba St, San Juan, PR - USA

^[73] Swedish Univ Agr Sci, Dept Forest Ecol & Management, Skogsmarksgrand 17, S-90183 Umea - Sweden

^[74] Univ Osijek, Dept Biol, Cara Hadrijana 8 A, Osijek - Croatia

^[75] Univ Estadual Maranhao, Agroecol Postgrad Program, Agr Engn, Ave Lourenco Vieira da Silva 1000, Sao Luis, Maranhao - Brazil

^[76] Agr Victoria, Dept Jobs Precincts & Reg, Chiltern Valley Rd, Rutherglen - Australia

^[77] Kyushu Univ, Fac Agr, 394 Tsubakuro, Fukuoka 8112415 - Japan

^[78] Minnesota Pollut Control Agcy, 520 Lafayette Rd, St Paul, MN - USA

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^[80] Northern Kentucky Univ, Dept Biol Sci, 1 Nunn Dr, Highland Hts, KY - USA

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^[82] Wageningen Univ & Res, Soil Phys & Land Management Grp, Droevendaalsteeg 4, Wageningen - Netherlands

^[83] Univ Jyvaskyla, Dept Biol & Environm Sci, Box 35, Jyvaskyla - Finland

^[84] Lincoln Univ Missouri, Coll Agr Environm & Human Sci, Jefferson City, MO 65101 - USA

^[85] Univ Agr Sci & Vet Med Banat King Michael 1st Rom, Sustainable Dev & Environm Engn, Calea Aradului 119, Timisoara - Romania

^[86] Univ Kiel, Inst Ecosyst Res, Olshausenstr 40, D-24098 Kiel - Germany

^[87] Tallinn Univ Technol, Tartu Coll, Puiestee 78, Tartu - Estonia

^[88] Univ Idaho, Dept Soil & Water Syst, 875 Perimeter Dr MS, 2340, Moscow, ID - USA

^[89] Fukushima Univ, Fac Food & Agr Sci, Kanayagawa 1, Fukushima - Japan

^[90] Matej Bel Univ, Dept Environm, Fac Nat Sci, Tajovskeho 40, Banska Bystrica - Slovakia

^[91] UK Ctr Ecol & Hydrol, Lib Ave, Lancaster - England

^[92] Leibniz Ctr Agr Landscape Res, Land Use & Governance, Eberswalder Str 84, Muncheberg - Germany

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^[97] Skolkovo Inst Sci & Technol, 30-1 Bolshoy Blvd, Moscow 121205 - Russia

^[98] INRAE, Inst Agro, SAS, F-35042 Rennes - France

^[99] Univ Hawaii Manoa, Coll Trop Agr & Human Resources, Trop Plant & Soil Sci, 3190 Maile Way, St John 102, Honolulu, HI - USA

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^[102] Univ Montpellier, UPR Syst Perennes, CIRAD, TA B-34-02 Ave Agropolis, Montpellier - France

^[103] Czech Univ Life Sci Prague, Fac Forestry & Wood Technol, Dept Forest Ecol, Kamycka 129, Prague - Czech Republic

^[104] Tochigi Prefectural Museum, 2-2 Mutsumi Cho, Utsunomiya, Tochigi - Japan

^[105] Thuenen Inst Biodivers, Bundesallee 65, Braunschweig - Germany

^[106] Thuenen Inst Organ Farming, Trenthorst 32, Westerau - Germany

^[107] Univ Extremadura, Plant Biol Ecol & Earth Sci, INDEHESA, Plasencia - Spain

^[108] Colegio Frontera Sur, Conservac Biodiversidad, Ave Rancho, Poligono 2 A, Campeche, Campeche - Mexico

^[109] Doshisha Univ, Dept Environm Syst Sci, Fac Sci & Engn, Kyoto 6028580 - Japan

^[110] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Div Forest Nat & Landscape, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Celestijnenlaan 200E Box, B-2411 Leuven - Belgium

^[111] Res Inst Nat & Forest, Gaverstr 35, B-9500 Geraardsbergen - Belgium

^[112] Bern Univ Appl Sci, Sch Agr Forest & Food Sci, Langgasse 85, Zollikofen - Switzerland

^[113] Nat Resources Inst Finland Luke, Soil Ecosyst, Tietotie 4, Jokioinen - Finland

^[114] Nat Area Consultants, 1 West Hill Sch Rd, Richford, NY - USA

^[115] PSMO Coll, Dept Zool, Malappuram, Kerala - India

^[116] CSIRO, CSIRO Ocean & Atmosphere, New Illawarra Rd, Lucas Heights, NSW - Australia

^[117] Sorbonne Univ, CNRS, Stn Biol Roscoff, UMR7144 Adaptat & Diversite Milieu Marin, Pl Georges Teissier, Roscoff - France

^[118] Phipps Conservatory & Bot Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 - USA

^[119] Inst Agro Agrocampus Ouest, UMR SAS, INRAE, F-35000 Rennes - France

^[120] Univ Alcala De Henares, Dept Life Sci, Forest Ecol & Restorat Grp, Alcala De Henares 28805 - Spain

^[121] CNRS, Museum Natl Hist Nat, UMR 7179, Adaptat Vivant, 4 Ave Petit Chateau, Brunoy - France

^[122] Tech Univ Munich, Dept Ecol & Ecosyst Management, Emil Ramann Str 2, D-85354 Freising Weihenstephan - Germany

^[123] Russian Acad Sci, Tembotov Inst Ecol Mt Terr, I Armand 37a, Nalchik - Russia

^[124] King Abdulaziz Univ, Ctr Excellence Environm Studies, POB 80216, Jeddah 21589 - Saudi Arabia

^[125] Univ Alcala De Henares, Dept Life Sci, Global Change Ecol & Evolut Res Grp GloCEE, Alcala De Henares 28805 - Spain

^[126] Univ Minnesota, Dept Forest Resources, 1530 Cleveland Ave N, St Paul, MN 55108 - USA

^[127] Friends Mississippi River, 101 E 5th St Suite 2000, St Paul, MN - USA

^[128] Univ Fed Maranhao, Biol Biodivers & Conservat Postgrad Program, Ave Portugueses 1966, Sao Luis, Maranhao - Brazil

^[129] Jagiellonian Univ, Inst Environm Sci, Gronostajowa 7, Krakow - Poland

^[130] Univ Wisconsin, Coll Nat Resources, Stevens Point, WI 54481 - USA

^[131] Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, IL 60532 - USA

^[132] Leibniz Inst Agr Engn & Bioecon ATB, Dept Engn Crop Prod, Max Eyth Allee 100, Potsdam - Germany

^[133] Univ Coll Dublin, Agr & Food Sci Ctr, Sch Agr & Food Sci, Dublin - Ireland

^[134] Univ Coll Dublin, UCD Earth Inst, Dublin - Ireland

^[135] Tech Univ Carolo Wilhelmina Braunschweig, Inst Geoecol, Landscape Ecol & Environm Syst Anal, Langer Kamp 19c, Braunschweig - Germany

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^[137] Eurac Res, Inst Alpine Environm, Viale Druso 1, Bozen Bolzano - Italy

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^[145] WWF Netherlands, Unit Food & Agr, Driebergseweg 10, Zeist - Netherlands

^[146] Univ Publ Navarra, IS FOOD, Dpto Ciencias, Edificio Olivos Campus Arrosadia, Pamplona - Spain

^[147] Univ Minnesota, Dept Soil Water & Climate, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN - USA

^[148] Earth Innovat Inst, 98 Battery St Suite 250, San Francisco, CA - USA

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^[154] Southwest Minzu Univ, Inst Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, Chengdu, Sichuan - Peoples R China

^[155] Russian Acad Sci, Inst North Ind Ecol Problems INEP KSC RAS, Fed Res Ctr Kola Sci Ctr, Lab Terr Ecosyst, Akademgorodok 14a, Apatity, Murmansk - Russia

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• Document type: Journal article
• Source: SCIENTIFIC DATA; v. 8, n. 1 MAY 21 2021.
• Web of Science Citations: 3

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. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 12/22510-8 - Soil engineering by macroinvertebrates: controls on soil organic matter storage across land use change
• Grantee: Andre Luiz Custodio Franco
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate