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Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number22
Pages (from-to)1-14
Number of pages14
JournalScientific Data
Volume11
Early online date3 Jan 2024
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

Bibliographical note

© 2024. The Author(s).

Funding

Data collection was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (493345801 to AP and 192626868—SFB 990 to SS) and by the Russian Science Foundation (19-74-00154 to A.P.). Publicaation was funded by the Open Access Publishing Fund of Leipzig University, which is supported by the German Research Foundation within the program Open Access Publication Funding. The following authors acknowledge support of the local funding agencies: NA to Russian Science Foundation, grant number 22-24-00984, BCB to Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), grant number #309114/2021-7, TWC to German Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (BMBF), LK to VEGA 1/0438/22 (Slovak Scientific Grant Agency), APVV-21-0379 (Slovak Research and Development Agency), JMA to Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning, DBa to CNPq/Brasil, ADB to Marsden Fund Council from Government funding, managed by Royal Society Te Apārangi, MCho to Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Zone Atelier ‘Arrière-Pays Mediterranéen’, SLC to DST-NRF Centre for Invasion Biology, Australian Research Council SRIEAS Grant SR200100005 Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, ATC to US National Science Foundation grants DEB9816001 and DEB0236204 and the American Association of University Women grant., JD to SFB 990-192626868/Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, NE to German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118), OFe to European Research Council, grant no. 677232, German Research Foundation, FZT 118, 202548816, Government of Alberta, Canada (Alberta Environment and Parks), permit no. 19–260, St. John’s University, CF to grant TE, PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0358, OFr to NWO grant 821.01.015, DW to Ministry of Innovation and Technology of Hungary TKP2021-NKTA-43. MG to National Natural Science Foundation of China, project numbers #41871042, # 42271051, MG to South African National Antarctic Programme Grant, National Research Foundation 17034, ITH to NSERC Discovery Grant RGPIN-2019-07215, MHa to JSPS KAKENHI #22580175, 2645027, 19K06133, CH to Région Île-de-France, TH to JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number #JP19780118, PH to MICINN project INTERCAPA (CGL2014-56739-R) P.H. was supported by a FPI-MICINN grant, MI to Estonian Science Foundation Grant No 9145, BJ to Part financed by the European Social Fund and Martins, TLC Ltd. under the Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships (KESS2) programme, CJS to SA-France bilateral grant to C.J., SA (NRF)/Russia (RFBR) Joint Science and 750 Technology Research Collaboration project no. 19-516-60002 (FRBR) and no. 118904 (NRF)., MJ to European Research Council, grant no. 677232, German Research Foundation, FZT 118, 202548816; Government of Alberta, Canada (Alberta Environment and Parks), permit no. 19–260; St. John’s University, SJ to These different programs were supported by the French National Agency of Research (ANR) (JASSUR research project; ANR-12-VBDU-0011), by the “Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche” and the “Ministère de l’Education Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie” (ACTA programme), by the “Ministère de l’Aménagement du Territoire et de l’Environnement” (Pnetox programme), by the EU-funded project, ECOGEN QLK5-CT-2002-01666, by the “Agence de l’Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l’Énergie” (BIOINDICATEUR 2, BIOTECHNOSOL), and by ANDRA, BCSJ to Nexus Project grant: MCTI/CNPq Grant 441280/2017-0, EJ to The Latvian Council of Science, Grants #90.108., 93.140., 96.0110., 01.0344., AK to Estonian Science Foundation, Grant No 9258 and R&D project No B02, JZL to Deutsche Forschungsgemeischaft, Projektnummer #316045089, AM to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) project number 192 626 868, MAM to Massey University Research Fund (2004, 2014, 2017), GIM to We acknowledge the Marsden Fund Council from Government funding, managed by Royal Society Te Apārangi, ROH to Ramón y Cajal program of the MICINN (RYC-2017 22032), by the R&D Project of the Ministry of Science and Innovation PID2019-106004RA-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, LCIOF to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the scholarship granted (155778/2018-8), MMP to DFG Priority Program 1374 “Infrastructure-Biodiversity-Exploratories” (SCHE 376/22-3), PQ to MUBIL: Ministry of agriculture; DIANA, Austria Bodenfauna österreichischer Naturwälder - Diversität, Gemeinschaftsmuster, Monitoring; VineDivers Projekt: FWF: I 2042-B25 and EU BiodivERsA/FACCE JPI; Diversität und Wirksamkeit von Nutzarthropoden in Abhängigkeit von der Landschaftsstruktur: FWF Austria P16972; Austrian Climate and Energy Fund: ACRP 6; Austria Academy of Science: Heritage_2020-043_Modeling-Museum, BR to Marsden Fund Council from Government funding, managed by Royal Society Te Apārangi, NR to Slovak Scientific Grant Agency VEGA 1/0438/22 and Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-21-838 0379, MIR to Higher Education Commission of Pakistan, LR to The Natural Resources Canada EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative (under the Office of Energy Research and Development), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Forest Service, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the regional forest industry (Tembec, Ontario Power Generation), the First Nations (Northeast Superior Regional Chief’s Forum) and the local communities (the Northeast Superior Forest Community)., RAS to RSF 21-74-00126, MSa to French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche #ANR-12-BSV7-0016-01, NS to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, research Unit FOR918, JS to National Park Hohe Tauern, Grant 7.6.1b-I8-24/16, XS to National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Number: 31861133006, 41571052, 41811530086; National Science and Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program of ChinaGrant/Award Number: 2018FY100300; the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, WIS to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)—project number 192626868—SFB 990 in the framework of the collaborative German–Indonesian research project CRC990, AAT to The state assignment of the Institute of Biology of the Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (project no.122040600025-2), LST to This project was funded by Nanyang Technological University’s URECA Undergraduate Research Programme., AMT to The work was supported by South African National Research Foundation Grant SNA14071475789, MNT to South African National Antarctic Programme, National Research Foundation Grant 17034, BW to Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico eTecnológico CNPq, Brazil (Grant: 141400/2013-7, Grant: 152717/2016-1, Grant: 441280/2017-0, Grant: 151124/2019-1), DZ to CNPq-PQ #301460/2022-1.

FundersFunder number
Ministère de l’Education Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie
National Research Foundation of Korea
American Association of University Women
Carl Tryggers Stiftelse för Vetenskaplig Forskning
Agentúra na Podporu Výskumu a Vývoja
Canadian Forest Service
Ministère de l’Aménagement du Territoire et de l’Environnement
Massey University
Nanyang Technological University
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Natural Resources Canada EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative
Canada Foundation for Innovation
FPI-MICINN
Ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche
Office of Energy Research and Development
European Social Fund Plus
Russian Foundation for Basic Research
DST-NRF
First Nations (Northeast Superior Regional Chief
Royal Society Te Apārangi
Higher Education Commision, Pakistan
Ministry of Natural Resources
Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China
Alberta Environment and Parks
Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
European Research Council
Marsden Fund Council
Agence Nationale de la Recherche31861133006, FOR918, ANR-12-VBDU-0011, 41571052, ANR-12-BSV7-0016, 41811530086, 7.6.1b-I8-24/16, -12-BSV7-0016-01
Australian Research CouncilSR200100005
Fundação para a Ciência e a TecnologiaIncentivo/SAU/LA0001/2013
National Science FoundationDEB9816001, 0236204, DEB0236204
Vedecká Grantová Agentúra MŠVVaŠ SR a SAVAPVV-21-0379, 1/0438/22
Latvijas Zinātnes Padome93.140, B02, 9258, 96.0110, 01.0344, 90.108
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science2645027, 19780118, 22580175, 19K06133, CGL2014-56739-R
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek821.01.015, TKP2021-NKTA-43
Ministerio de Ciencia e InnovaciónMCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, PID2019-106004RA-I00, RYC-2017 22032
Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung Halle-Jena-LeipzigFZT 118
St. John's UniversityPN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-0358
Austrian Science FundP 16972, ACRP 6, I 2042-B25, I 2042
750 Technology Research Collaboration19-516-60002, 118904
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico309114/2021-7, 155778/2018-8, SCHE 376/22-3
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme677232
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft192 626 868, 316045089, 493345801, 22-24-00984, 192626868—SFB 990
European CommissionQLK5-CT-2002-01666
Eesti Teadusfondi9145
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaRGPIN-2019-07215
National Science and Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program2018FY100300
Russian Science Foundation19-74-00154
Österreichischen Akademie der WissenschaftenHeritage_2020-043_Modeling-Museum, APVV-21-838 0379
Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação441280/2017-0
Northeast Superior Forest CommunityRSF 21-74-00126
National Research Foundation301460/2022-1, SNA14071475789, 141400/2013-7, 152717/2016-1, 151124/2019-1
Alexander von Humboldt-StiftungCRC990
National Natural Science Foundation of China41871042, 17034, 42271051

    Keywords

    • Animals
    • Arthropods
    • Ecosystem
    • Forests
    • Seasons
    • Soil

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