Abstract

Springtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated similar to 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.

Published in

Scientific Data
2024, Volume: 11, number: 1, article number: 22
Publisher: NATURE PORTFOLIO

SLU Authors

• Krab, Eveline

  • Department of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Umeå University

• Ahlbäck Widenfalk, Lina

  • Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Greensway AB

UKÄ Subject classification

Ecology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02784-x

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/128394