Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure
Anton Potapov, Ting‐Wen Chen, Anastasia V. Striuchkova, Juha M. Alatalo, Douglas Alexandre, Javier Arbea, Thomas Ashton, Frank Ashwood, А. Б. Бабенко, Ipsa Bandyopadhyaya, Carolina Riviera Duarte Maluche Baretta, Dilmar Baretta, Andrew D. Barnes, Bruno Cavalcante Bellini, Mohamed Bendjaballah, Matty P. Berg, Verónica Bernava, Stef Bokhorst, Anna Bokova, Thomas Bolger, Mathieu Bouchard, Roniere Andrade de Brito, Damayanti Buchori, Gabriela Castaño‐Meneses, Matthieu Chauvat, Mathilde Chomel, Yasuko Chow, Steven L. Chown, Aimée T. Classen, Jérôme Cortet, Peter Čuchta, Ana Manuela de la Pedrosa, Estevam Cipriano Araújo de Lima, Louis E. Deharveng, Enrique Doblas‐Miranda, Jochen Drescher, Nico Eisenhauer, Jacintha Ellers, Olga Ferlian, Susana S. D. Ferreira, Aila Soares Ferreira, Cristina Fiera, Juliane Filser, Oscar Franken, Saori Fujii, Essivi Gagnon Koudji, Meixiang Gao, Benoît Gendreau-Berthiaume, Charles Gers, Michelle Greve, Salah Hamra-Kroua, I. Tanya Handa, Motohiro Hasegawa, Charlène Heiniger, Takuo Hishi, Martin Holmstrup, Pablo Homet, Toke T. Høye, Mari Ivask, Bob Jacques, Charlene Janion‐Scheepers, Malte Jochum, Sophie Joimel, Bruna Claudia S. Jorge, Edīte Juceviča, Esther M. Kapinga, Ľubomír Kováč, Eveline J. Krab, Paul Henning Krogh, Annely Kuu, Natalya V. Kuznetsova, Weng Ngai Lam, Dunmei Lin, Zoë Lindo, Amy W. P. Liu, Jing‐Zhong Lu, María José Luciáñez Sánchez, Michael Thomas Marx, Amanda Mawan, Matthew A. McCary, Maria A. Minor, Grace I. Mitchell, David Moreno‐Mateos, Taizo Nakamori, Ilaria Negri, Uffe N. Nielsen, Raúl Ochoa‐Hueso, Luís Carlos Iuñes de Oliveira Filho, José G. Palacios‐Vargas, Melanie M. Pollierer, Jean‐François Ponge, Mikhail Potapov, Pascal Querner, Bibishan Rai, Natália Raschmanová, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid, Laura J. Raymond-Léonard, Aline S. dos Reis, Giles M. Ross, Laurent Rousseau
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.