Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure
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Potapov, Anton M.
Chen, Ting-Wen
Striuchkova, Anastasia V.
Alatalo, Juha M.
Alexandre, Douglas
Arbea, Javier
Ashton, Thomas
Ashwood, Frank
Babenko, Anatoly B.
Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa
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Nature Research
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.
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CODE AVAILABILITY : Programming R code is openly available together with the database from Figshare.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 1 : Template for data collection
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 2 : Data Descriptor Worksheet
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 1 : Template for data collection
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL 2 : Data Descriptor Worksheet
Keywords
Biodiversity, Community ecology, SDG-15: Life on land, Springtails (Collembola), Springtail communities
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG-15:Life on land
Citation
Potapov, A.M., Chen, TW., Striuchkova, A.V. et al. Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Scientific Data 11, 22 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02784-x.