A call for collaboration to create the European Atlas of Soil Fauna

Authors

  • Maria Tsiafouli Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  • Jérôme Cortet University of Montpellier
  • David Russell Senckenberg Museum of Natural History

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25674/so94iss3id307

Keywords:

Soil biodiversity, soil functions, ecosystem services, edaphobase data warehouse, soil maps

Abstract

Soil biodiversity, and particularly soil fauna, drives essential soil functions leading to crucial ecosystem services. Many research activities over the last decades have produced data, which are however widely dispersed and not easily available, hence their re-usage is limited. Here, we aim to collect a maximum of already published or available data on soil fauna (micro-meso- and macro-fauna) from the European territory, by creating the first comprehensive ‘European Atlas of Soil Fauna’. With this initiative, we envision a vibrant collaborative effort in which ‘data owners’ become ‘co-creators’ of the Atlas by contributing their (published) data to an overall soil fauna data set. The data set will be used to produce information and maps on soil fauna distribution and diversity across Europe, to support research, policy, education, conservation and monitoring activities.

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Front cover: Plasmoidal slime mould (Lycogala epidendrum) and Collembolla (Dicyrtomina saundersi) (Photo: Lothar Lenz)

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Published

2022-12-01

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Tsiafouli, M., Cortet , J., & Russell, D. (2022). A call for collaboration to create the European Atlas of Soil Fauna. SOIL ORGANISMS, 94(3), 175–181. https://doi.org/10.25674/so94iss3id307

Issue

Vol. 94 No. 3 (2022)

Section

CALL FOR COLLABORATION

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