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Get Free AccessSoil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be 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 for the functions they provide.
Helen R. P. Phillips, Carlos A. Guerra, Marie Luise Carolina Bartz, María J.I. Briones, George Gardner Brown, Thomas W. Crowther, Olga Ferlian, Konstantin B. Gongalsky, Johan van den Hoogen, Julia Krebs, Alberto Orgiazzi, Devin Routh, Benjamin Schwarz, Elizabeth M. Bach, Joanne M. Bennett, Ulrich Brose, Thibaud Decaëns, Birgitta König‐Ries, Michel Loreau, Jérôme Mathieu, Christian Mulder, Wim H. van der Putten, Kelly S. Ramirez, Matthias C. Rillig, David Russell, Michiel Rutgers, Madhav P. Thakur, Franciska T. de Vries, Diana H. Wall, David A. Wardle, Miwa Arai, Fredrick O. Ayuke, Geoff Baker, Robin Beauséjour, José Camilo Bedano, Klaus Birkhofer, Éric Blanchart, Bernd Blossey, Thomas Bolger, Robert L. Bradley, Mac A. Callaham, Yvan Capowiez, Mark E. Caulfield, Amy Choi, Felicity Crotty, Jasmine M. Crumsey, Andrea Dávalos, Darío J. Diaz Cosin, Anahí Domínguez, Andrés Duhour, N.J.M. van Eekeren, Christoph Emmerling, Liliana Falco, Rosa Fernández, Steven J. Fonte, Carlos Fragoso, André L.C. Franco, Martine Fugère, Abegail Fusilero, Shaieste Gholami, Michael J. Gundale, Mónica Gutiérrez, Davorka K. Hackenberger, Luis M. Hernández, Takuo Hishi, Andrew R. Holdsworth, Martin Holmstrup, Kristine N. Hopfensperger, Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Veikko Huhta, Tunsisa T. Hurisso, Basil V. Iannone, M. Iordache, Monika Joschko, Nobuhiro Kaneko, Radoslava Kanianska, Aidan M. Keith, Courtland Kelly, Maria Kernecker, Jonatan Klaminder, Armand W. Koné, Yahya Kooch, Sanna Kukkonen, H. Lalthanzara, Daniel R. Lammel, Iurii M. Lebedev, Yiqing Li, Juan B. Jesús Lidón, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Scott R. Loss, Raphaël Marichal, Radim Matula, Jan Hendrik Moos, Gerardo Moreno, Alejandro Morón‐Ríos, Bart Muys, Johan Neirynck, Lindsey Norgrove, Marta Novo, Visa Nuutinen (2019). Global distribution of earthworm diversity. Science, 366(6464), pp. 480-485, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4851.
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2019
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English
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Science
DOI
10.1126/science.aax4851
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