Sammanfattning

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.

Publicerad i

Scientific Data
2024, Volym: 11, nummer: 1, artikelnummer: 22
Utgivare: NATURE PORTFOLIO

SLU författare

• Krab, Eveline

  • Institutionen för mark och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Umeå Universitet

• Ahlbäck Widenfalk, Lina

  • Institutionen för ekologi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Greensway AB

UKÄ forskningsämne

Ekologi


Publikationens identifierare

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

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

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