Scientific Data (Jan 2024)

Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure

  • Anton M. Potapov,
  • Ting-Wen Chen,
  • Anastasia V. Striuchkova,
  • Juha M. Alatalo,
  • Douglas Alexandre,
  • Javier Arbea,
  • Thomas Ashton,
  • Frank Ashwood,
  • Anatoly B. Babenko,
  • Ipsa Bandyopadhyaya,
  • Carolina Riviera Duarte Maluche Baretta,
  • Dilmar Baretta,
  • Andrew D. Barnes,
  • Bruno C. Bellini,
  • Mohamed Bendjaballah,
  • Matty P. Berg,
  • Verónica Bernava,
  • Stef Bokhorst,
  • Anna I. Bokova,
  • Thomas Bolger,
  • Mathieu Bouchard,
  • Roniere A. Brito,
  • Damayanti Buchori,
  • Gabriela Castaño-Meneses,
  • Matthieu Chauvat,
  • Mathilde Chomel,
  • Yasuko Chow,
  • Steven L. Chown,
  • Aimee T. Classen,
  • Jérôme Cortet,
  • Peter Čuchta,
  • Ana Manuela de la Pedrosa,
  • Estevam C. A. De Lima,
  • Louis E. Deharveng,
  • Enrique Doblas Miranda,
  • Jochen Drescher,
  • Nico Eisenhauer,
  • Jacintha Ellers,
  • Olga Ferlian,
  • Susana S. D. Ferreira,
  • Aila S. Ferreira,
  • Cristina Fiera,
  • Juliane Filser,
  • Oscar Franken,
  • Saori Fujii,
  • Essivi Gagnon Koudji,
  • Meixiang Gao,
  • Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume,
  • Charles Gers,
  • Michelle Greve,
  • Salah Hamra-Kroua,
  • I. Tanya Handa,
  • Motohiro Hasegawa,
  • Charlène Heiniger,
  • Takuo Hishi,
  • Martin Holmstrup,
  • Pablo Homet,
  • Toke T. Høye,
  • Mari Ivask,
  • Bob Jacques,
  • Charlene Janion-Scheepers,
  • Malte Jochum,
  • Sophie Joimel,
  • Bruna Claudia S. Jorge,
  • Edite Juceviča,
  • Esther M. Kapinga,
  • Ľubomír Kováč,
  • Eveline J. Krab,
  • Paul Henning Krogh,
  • Annely Kuu,
  • Natalya Kuznetsova,
  • Weng Ngai Lam,
  • Dunmei Lin,
  • Zoë Lindo,
  • Amy W. P. Liu,
  • Jing-Zhong Lu,
  • María José Luciáñez,
  • Michael T. Marx,
  • Amanda Mawan,
  • Matthew A. McCary,
  • Maria A. Minor,
  • Grace I. Mitchell,
  • David Moreno,
  • Taizo Nakamori,
  • Ilaria Negri,
  • Uffe N. Nielsen,
  • Raúl Ochoa-Hueso,
  • Luís Carlos I. Oliveira Filho,
  • José G. Palacios-Vargas,
  • Melanie M. Pollierer,
  • Jean-François Ponge,
  • Mikhail B. Potapov,
  • Pascal Querner,
  • Bibishan Rai,
  • Natália Raschmanová,
  • Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid,
  • Laura J. Raymond-Léonard,
  • Aline S. Reis,
  • Giles M. Ross,
  • Laurent Rousseau,
  • David J. Russell,
  • Ruslan A. Saifutdinov,
  • Sandrine Salmon,
  • Mathieu Santonja,
  • Anna K. Saraeva,
  • Emma J. Sayer,
  • Nicole Scheunemann,
  • Cornelia Scholz,
  • Julia Seeber,
  • Peter Shaw,
  • Yulia B. Shveenkova,
  • Eleanor M. Slade,
  • Sophya Stebaeva,
  • Maria Sterzynska,
  • Xin Sun,
  • Winda Ika Susanti,
  • Anastasia A. Taskaeva,
  • Li Si Tay,
  • Madhav P. Thakur,
  • Anne M Treasure,
  • Maria Tsiafouli,
  • Mthokozisi N. Twala,
  • Alexei V. Uvarov,
  • Lisa A. Venier,
  • Lina A. Widenfalk,
  • Rahayu Widyastuti,
  • Bruna Winck,
  • Daniel Winkler,
  • Donghui Wu,
  • Zhijing Xie,
  • Rui Yin,
  • Robson A. Zampaulo,
  • Douglas Zeppelini,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Abdelmalek Zoughailech,
  • Oliver Ashford,
  • Osmar Klauberg-Filho,
  • Stefan Scheu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02784-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Abstract Springtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database on springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences from 44,999 samples and 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at the species level collected predominantly from private archives of the authors that were quality-controlled and taxonomically-standardised. Despite covering all continents, most of the sample-level data come from the European continent (82.5% of all samples) and represent four habitats: woodlands (57.4%), grasslands (14.0%), agrosystems (13.7%) and scrublands (9.0%). We included sampling by soil layers, and across seasons and years, representing temporal and spatial within-site variation in springtail communities. We also provided data use and sharing guidelines and R code to facilitate the use of the database by other researchers. This data paper describes a static version of the database at the publication date, but the database will be further expanded to include underrepresented regions and linked with trait data.