Contributors: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv); Leipzig University / Universität Leipzig; Martin-Luther-Universität Halle Wittenberg (MLU); Universidade Positivo; Universidade de Vigo; Embrapa Forestry; Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa); Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich); A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution; Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS); Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU); JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES); European Commission - Joint Research Centre Ispra (JRC); Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis; Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Department of Biology Fort Collins; Colorado State University Fort Collins (CSU); Friedrich-Schiller-Universität = Friedrich Schiller University Jena Jena, Germany; Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive (CEFE); Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE); Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro); Station d'écologie théorique et expérimentale (SETE); Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut d'écologie et des sciences de l'environnement de Paris (iEES); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Università degli studi di Catania = University of Catania (Unict); Department of Terrestrial Ecology Wageningen; Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW); Wageningen University and Research Wageningen (WUR); Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB); Freie Universität Berlin; Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz; Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung; Leibniz Association-Leibniz Association; National Institute for Public Health and the Environment Bilthoven (RIVM); Asian School of the Environment (ASE); Nanyang Technological University Singapour; National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO); University of Nairobi (UoN); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Canberra (CSIRO); Département de biologie Sherbrooke (UdeS); Faculté des sciences Sherbrooke (UdeS); Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS)-Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS); National University of Río Cuarto = Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC); Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus – Senftenberg (BTU); Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes (UMR Eco&Sols); Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro); Department of Natural Resources & The Environment CALS; College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Cornell University (CALS); Cornell University New York -Cornell University New York; UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin; School of Biology and Environmental Sciences (SBES); University College Dublin Dublin (UCD); USDA Forest Service; Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes (EMMAH); Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Avignon Université (AU); University of Toronto; Aberystwyth University; Department of Biological Sciences, SUNY Cortland; Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution Madrid; Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid Madrid (UCM); Universidad Nacional de Luján Buenos Aires; Louis Bolk Institute (LBI); Trier University of Applied Sciences; Ciencias Básicas, Instituto de Ecología y Desarrollo Sustentable -INEDES, Universidad Nacional de Lujan; Institut de Biologia Evolutiva Barcelona (IBE); Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas = Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)-Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (UPF); Biodiversity and Systematic Network, Instituto de Ecología A.C.; Department of Biological Science and Environmental Studies, University of the Philippines - Mindanao; Razi University of Kermanshah; Department of Forest Ecology and Management; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences = Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet (SLU); Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek; Universidade Estadual do Maranhão = State University of Maranhão (UEMA); Kyushu University; Minnesota Pollution Control Agency; Aarhus University Aarhus; Northern Kentucky University; Soil Physics and Land Management degradation, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University; Department of Biological and Environmental Science Jyväskylä Univ (JYU); University of Jyväskylä (JYU); Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University; College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences, Lincoln University of Missouri; School of Forest Resources and Conservation Gainesville (UF|IFAS|FFGS); Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Gainesville (UF|IFAS); University of Florida Gainesville (UF)-University of Florida Gainesville (UF); Sustainable Development and Environment Engineering, Banat's University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine "King Michael the 1st of Romania"; Experimental Infrastructure Platform, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University; Matej Bel University (UMB); Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Lancaster (CEH); Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); Land Use and Governance, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF); Climate Impacts Research Centre (CIRC); Umeå University
نبذة مختصرة : International audience ; Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, distribution, and the threats affecting them. Here, we compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries to predict patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We identified that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, diversity across the entirety of the tropics may be higher than elsewhere, due to high species dissimilarity across locations. Climate variables were more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and therefore the functions they provide.
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