Global gaps in soil biodiversity data

Cameron, Erin K.; Martins, Inês S.; Lavelle, Patrick; Mathieu, Jérôme; Tedersoo, Leho; Gottschall, Felix; Guerra, Carlos A.; Hines, Jes; Patoine, Guillaume; Siebert, Julia; Winter, Marten; Cesarz, Simone; Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel; Ferlian, Olga; Fierer, Noah; Kreft, Holger; Lovejoy, Thomas Ε.; Montanarella, Luca; Orgiazzi, Alberto; Pereira, Henrique M.; Phillips, Helen R. P.; Settele, Josef; Wall, Diana H.; Eisenhauer, Nico

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“…As noted above, many global network initiatives carried out to date in (soil) ecology are poorly represented in large areas of our planet, such as Africa, Latin America and Asia (excluding China) (Cameron et al 2018). This is not a surprise given the lack of scientific tradition and research funding in many countries, which has often resulted in the absence of infrastructure (e.g.…”

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“…Indeed, most global networks and monitoring programs focusing on (or including) soil organisms/processes developed to date have a poor inclusion of research sites/scientists from Africa, Latin America, Oceania (other than Australia and New Zealand) and Asia (e.g. Cameron et al 2018; but see Maestre et al 2012, Delgado-Baquerizo et al 2018). …”

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“…; Cameron et al. ), which have likely been a major factor limiting attempts to address declines in soil biodiversity with policy at large scales. Since the release of the first global report on soil biodiversity (Orgiazzi et al.…”

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Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity

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Human activities are accelerating global biodiversity change and have resulted in severely threatened ecosystem services. A large proportion of terrestrial biodiversity is harbored by soil, but soil biodiversity has been omitted from many global biodiversity assessments and conservation actions, and understanding of global patterns of soil biodiversity remains limited. In particular, the extent to which hotspots and coldspots of aboveground and soil biodiversity overlap is not clear. We examined global patterns of these overlaps by mapping indices of aboveground (mammals, birds, amphibians, vascular plants) and soil (bacteria, fungi, macrofauna) biodiversity that we created using previously published data on species richness. Areas of mismatch between aboveground and soil biodiversity covered 27% of Earth's terrestrial surface. The temperate broadleaf and mixed forests biome had the highest proportion of grid cells with high aboveground biodiversity but low soil biodiversity, whereas the boreal and tundra biomes had intermediate soil biodiversity but low aboveground biodiversity. While more data on soil biodiversity are needed, both to cover geographic gaps and to include additional taxa, our results suggest that protecting aboveground biodiversity may not sufficiently reduce threats to soil biodiversity. Given the functional importance of soil biodiversity and the role of soils in human well‐being, soil biodiversity should be considered further in policy agendas and conservation actions by adapting management practices to sustain soil biodiversity and considering soil biodiversity when designing protected areas.

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“…Soil biodiversity has thus far rarely entered this discussion and analyses (Cameron et al 2018), and substantial gaps in soil biodiversity and function data exist (Cameron et al 2019). Furthermore, we know exceptionally little about temporal changes in soil biodiversity (Phillips et al 2017), although soil biodiversity is thought to be essential for critical ecosystem functions and services (Bardgett & van der Putten 2014, Wall et al 2015) but threatened by anthropogenic impacts (Veresoglou et al 2015).…”

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“…Subsequent syntheses and meta-analyses can only be as good as the quality of the data they are based on. As open access journals often have publication charges, this might select against publication of work from regions of the world with lower levels of research funds; very often, these are the areas of the globe where our information on (soil) biodiversity is particularly low (Cameron et al 2018). This is why Soil Organisms is proud to offer open access publication of scientifically sound without any charges for publication and download .…”

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Global gaps in soil biodiversity data

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Recommendations for establishing global collaborative networks in soil ecology

Recommendations for establishing global collaborative networks in soil ecology

Global mismatches in aboveground and belowground biodiversity

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