Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure

Potapov, Anton M. and Chen, Ting-Wen and Striuchkova, Anastasia V. and Alatalo, Juha M. and Alexandre, Douglas and Arbea, Javier and Ashton, Thomas and Ashwood, Frank and Babenko, Anatoly B. and Bandyopadhyaya, Ipsa and Baretta, Dilmar and Baretta, Dilmar and Barnes, Andrew D. and Bellini, Bruno C. and Bendjaballah, Mohamed and Berg, Matty P. and Bernava, Verónica and Bokhorst, Stef and Bokova, Anna I. and Bolger, Thomas and Bouchard, Mathieu and Brito, Roniere A. and Buchori, Damayanti and Castaño-Meneses, Gabriela and Chauvat, Matthieu and Chomel, Mathilde and Chow, Yasuko and Chown, Steven L. and Classen, Aimee T. and Cortet, Jérôme and Čuchta, Peter and de la Pedrosa, Ana Manuela and De Lima, Estevam C. A. and Deharveng, Louis E. and Doblas Miranda, Enrique and Drescher, Jochen and Eisenhauer, Nico and Ellers, Jacintha and Ferlian, Olga and Ferreira, Susana S. D. and Ferreira, Aila S. and Fiera, Cristina and Filser, Juliane and Franken, Oscar and Fujii, Saori and Koudji, Essivi Gagnon and Gao, Meixiang and Gendreau-Berthiaume, Benoit and Gers, Charles and Greve, Michelle and Hamra-Kroua, Salah and Handa, I. Tanya and Hasegawa, Motohiro and Heiniger, Charlène and Hishi, Takuo and Holmstrup, Martin and Homet, Pablo and Høye, Toke T. and Ivask, Mari and Jacques, Bob and Janion-Scheepers, Charlene and Jochum, Malte and Joimel, Sophie and Jorge, Bruna Claudia S. and Juceviča, Edite and Kapinga, Esther M. and Kováč, Ľubomír and Krab, Eveline J. and Krogh, Paul Henning and Kuu, Annely and Kuznetsova, Natalya and Lam, Weng Ngai and Lin, Dunmei and Lindo, Zoë and Liu, Amy W. P. and Lu, Jing-Zhong and Luciáñez, María José and Marx, Michael T. and Mawan, Amanda and McCary, Matthew A. and Minor, Maria A. and Mitchell, Grace I. and Moreno, David and Nakamori, Taizo and Negri, Ilaria and Nielsen, Uffe N. and Ochoa-Hueso, Raúl and Oliveira Filho, Luís Carlos I. and Palacios-Vargas, José G. and Pollierer, Melanie M. and Ponge, Jean-François and Potapov, Mikhail B. and Querner, Pascal and Rai, Bibishan and Raschmanová, Natália and Rashid, Muhammad Imtiaz and Raymond-Léonard, Laura J. and Reis, Aline S. and Ross, Giles M. and Rousseau, Laurent and Russell, David J. and Saifutdinov, Ruslan A. and Salmon, Sandrine and Santonja, Mathieu and Saraeva, Anna K. and Sayer, Emma J. and Scheunemann, Nicole and Scholz, Cornelia and Seeber, Julia and Shaw, Peter and Shveenkova, Yulia B. and Slade, Eleanor M. and Stebaeva, Sophya and Sterzynska, Maria and Sun, Xin and Susanti, Winda Ika and Taskaeva, Anastasia A. and Tay, Li Si and Thakur, Madhav P. and Treasure, Anne M and Tsiafouli, Maria and Twala, Mthokozisi N. and Uvarov, Alexei V. and Venier, Lisa A. and Widenfalk, Lina A. and Widyastuti, Rahayu and Winck, Bruna and Winkler, Daniel and Wu, Donghui and Xie, Zhijing and Yin, Rui and Zampaulo, Robson A. and Zeppelini, Douglas and Zhang, Bing and Zoughailech, Abdelmalek and Ashford, Oliver and Klauberg-Filho, Osmar and Scheu, Stefan (2024) Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure. Scientific Data, 11 (1): 22. ISSN 2052-4463

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.