Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties
Creators: name: Phillips, Helen R. P.
name: Bach, Elizabeth M.
name: Bartz, Marie L. C.
name: Bennett, Joanne M.
name: Beugnon, Rémy
name: Briones, Maria J. I.
name: Brown, George G.
name: Ferlian, Olga
name: Gongalsky, Konstantin B.
name: Guerra, Carlos A.
name: König-Ries, Birgitta
name: Krebs, Julia J.
name: Orgiazzi, Alberto
name: Ramirez, Kelly S.
name: Russell, David J.
name: Schwarz, Benjamin
name: Wall, Diana H.
name: Brose, Ulrich
name: Decaëns, Thibaud
name: Lavelle, Patrick
name: Loreau, Michel
name: Mathieu, Jérôme
name: Mulder, Christian
name: Van Der Putten, Wim H.
name: Rillig, Matthias C.
name: Thakur, Madhav P.
name: De Vries, Franciska T.
name: Wardle, David A.
name: Ammer, Christian
name: Ammer, Sabine
name: Arai, Miwa
name: Ayuke, Fredrick O.
name: Baker, Geoff H.
name: Baretta, Dilmar
name: Barkusky, Dietmar
name: Beauséjour, Robin
name: Bedano, Jose C.
name: Birkhofer, Klaus
name: Blanchart, Eric
name: Blossey, Bernd
name: Bolger, Thomas
name: Bradley, Robert L.
name: Brossard, Michel
name: Burtis, James C.
name: Capowiez, Yvan
name: Cavagnaro, Timothy R.
name: Choi, Amy
name: Clause, Julia
name: Cluzeau, Daniel
name: Coors, Anja
name: Crotty, Felicity V.
name: Crumsey, Jasmine M.
name: Dávalos, Andrea
name: Cosín, Darío J. Díaz
name: Dobson, Annise M.
name: Domínguez, Anahí
name: Duhour, Andrés Esteban
name: Van Eekeren, Nick
name: Emmerling, Christoph
name: Falco, Liliana B.
name: Fernández, Rosa
name: Fonte, Steven J.
name: Fragoso, Carlos
name: Franco, André L. C.
name: Fusilero, Abegail
name: Geraskina, Anna P.
name: Gholami, Shaieste
name: González, Grizelle
name: Gundale, Michael J.
name: López, Mónica Gutiérrez
name: Hackenberger, Branimir K.
name: Hackenberger, Davorka K.
name: Hernández, Luis M.
name: Hirth, Jeff R.
name: Hishi, Takuo
name: Holdsworth, Andrew R.
name: Holmstrup, Martin
name: Hopfensperger, Kristine N.
name: Lwanga, Esperanza Huerta
name: Huhta, Veikko
name: Hurisso, Tunsisa T.
name: Iannone, Basil V.
name: Iordache, Madalina
name: Irmler, Ulrich
name: Ivask, Mari
name: Jesús, Juan B.
name: Johnson-Maynard, Jodi L.
name: Joschko, Monika
name: Kaneko, Nobuhiro
name: Kanianska, Radoslava
name: Keith, Aidan M.
name: Kernecker, Maria L.
name: Koné, Armand W.
name: Kooch, Yahya
name: Kukkonen, Sanna T.
name: Lalthanzara, H.
name: Lammel, Daniel R.
name: Lebedev, Iurii M.
name: Le Cadre, Edith
name: Lincoln, Noa K.
name: López-Hernández, Danilo
name: Loss, Scott R.
name: Marichal, Raphael
name: Matula, Radim
name: Minamiya, Yukio
name: Moos, Jan Hendrik
name: Moreno, Gerardo
name: Morón-Ríos, Alejandro
name: Motohiro, Hasegawa
name: Muys, Bart
name: Neirynck, Johan
name: Norgrove, Lindsey
name: Novo, Marta
name: Nuutinen, Visa
name: Nuzzo, Victoria
name: Mujeeb Rahman, P.
name: Pansu, Johan
name: Paudel, Shishir
name: Pérès, Guénola
name: Pérez-Camacho, Lorenzo
name: Ponge, Jean-François
name: Prietzel, Jörg
name: Rapoport, Irina B.
name: Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz
name: Rebollo, Salvador
name: Rodríguez, Miguel Á.
name: Roth, Alexander M.
name: Rousseau, Guillaume X.
name: Rozen, Anna
name: Sayad, Ehsan
name: Van Schaik, Loes
name: Scharenbroch, Bryant
name: Schirrmann, Michael
name: Schmidt, Olaf
name: Schröder, Boris
name: Seeber, Julia
name: Shashkov, Maxim P.
name: Singh, Jaswinder
name: Smith, Sandy M.
name: Steinwandter, Michael
name: Szlavecz, Katalin
name: Talavera, José Antonio
name: Trigo, Dolores
name: Tsukamoto, Jiro
name: Uribe-López, Sheila
name: De Valença, Anne W.
name: Virto, Iñigo
name: Wackett, Adrian A.
name: Warren, Matthew W.
name: Webster, Emily R.
name: Wehr, Nathaniel H.
name: Whalen, Joann K.
name: Wironen, Michael B.
name: Wolters, Volkmar
name: Wu, Pengfei
name: Zenkova, Irina V.
name: Zhang, Weixin
name: Cameron, Erin K.
name: Eisenhauer, Nico
Publisher: name: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Biogeography
Community ecology

description: Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties. Datasets were required, at a minimum, to include abundance or biomass of earthworms at a site. Where possible, site-level species lists were included, as well as the abundance and biomass of individual species and ecological groups. This global dataset contains 10,840 sites, with 184 species, from 60 countries and all continents except Antarctica. The data were obtained from 182 published articles, published between 1973 and 2017, and 17 unpublished datasets. Amalgamating data into a single global database will assist researchers in investigating and answering a wide variety of pressing questions, for example, jointly assessing aboveground and belowground biodiversity distributions and drivers of biodiversity change.