The Edaphobase project of GBIF-Germany—A new online soil-zoological data warehouse

Burkhardt, Ulrich; Russell, David J.; Decker, Peter; Döhler, M.; Höfer, Hubert; Lesch, Stephan; Rick, Sebastian; Römbke, Jörg; Trog, Carmen; Vorwald, J.; Wurst, Eberhard; Xylander, Willi E. R.

doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2014.03.021

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“…In the vast majority of species, missing DNA barcodes from distant populations (e.g., from North vs. South Germany) do not hinder unambiguous species identification. However, in a few cases known from well-studied groups, elevated levels of intraspecific variation had been detected in Germany (Knebelsberger et al 2015;Hendrich et al 2015;Hausmann et al 2011aHausmann et al , 2013Burkhardt et al 2014). These might hamper straightforward identification when isolated lineages are not characterized before and would argue for a continued attempt to include material from several distant populations of the same species to be able to estimate levels of genetic diversity.…”

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“…Likewise, the Senckenberg Görlitz soil zoology section feeds its taxonomic, sampling, and ecological data first to Edaphobase (www. edaphobase.org; Burkhardt et al 2014), a free online database on soil animals, and subsequently links them to GBOL and BOLD. Together with the BOLD team, we are currently adapting the data exchange with the BOLD Web Service Interface (API).…”

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How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation—lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012–2015)

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Biodiversity loss is mainly driven by human activity. While concern grows over the fate of hot spots of biodiversity, contemporary species losses still prevail in industrialized nations. Therefore, strategies were formulated to halt or reverse the loss, driven by evidence for its value for ecosystem services. Maintenance of the latter through conservation depends on correctly identified species. To this aim, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the GBOL project, a consortium of natural history collections, botanic gardens, and universities working on a barcode reference database for the country's fauna and flora. Several noticeable findings could be useful for future campaigns: (i) validating taxon lists to serve as a taxonomic backbone is time-consuming, but without alternative; (ii) offering financial incentives to taxonomic experts, often citizen scientists, is indispensable; (iii) completion of the libraries for widespread species enables analyses of environmental samples, but the process may not hold pace with technological advancements; (iv) discoveries of new species are among the best stories for the media; (v) a commitment to common data standards and repositories is needed, as well as transboundary cooperation between nations; (vi) after validation, all data should be published online via the BOLD to make them searchable for external users and to allow cross-checking with data from other countries.Key words: biodiversity assessment, citizen science, DNA barcoding, reference library, Germany.Résumé : La perte de biodiversité découle principalement de l'activité humaine. Tandis que les inquiétudes grandissent sur le sort des milieux à forte biodiversité, la disparition d'espèces contemporaines a toujours cours dans les pays industrialisés. Ainsi, des stratégies ont été proposées pour arrêter ou renverser ces pertes d'espèces, lesquelles interventions sont motivées par la valeur de la biodiversité en matière de services écosystémiques. Le maintien de ces services par le biais de la conservation dépend d'une identification correcte des espèces. C'est dans ce but que le Ministère fédéral de l'éducation et de la recherche de l'Allemagne a financé le projet GBOL, un consortium de collections d'histoire naturelle, de jardins botaniques et d'universités oeuvrant à développer une

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How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation—lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012–2015)

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Borsch

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“…In addition to the parameters measured, it is vitally important that data should be made available for comparison or by providing a baseline from which other monitoring campaigns can compare. Fortunately, and more or less independently from each other, the storage of the enormous amount of soil biodiversity data in specific databases has been addressed in several European countries, such as France (Cluzeau et al, 2010) or Germany (Burkhardt et al, 2014). In addition the data resulting from the 81 sites studied across Europe in the Ecofinders project will be made available online through the Joint Research Council of the European Commission in the near future.…”

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Soil biodiversity data: Actual and potential use in European and national legislation

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Gardi

Creamer

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“…In fact, in modern TME facilities realistic climatic scenarios can be simulated. In this context the "Normal Operating Ranges" (NORs) of at least the most common enchytraeid species should be determined, preferably using soil biodiversity data bases (e.g., Burkhardt et al, 2014). -The information available from higher-tier studies does allow to draw important conclusions, for example when addressing the question how much the composition of invertebrate communities determines the level of ecotoxicity (Sechi et al, 2014).…”

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Effects of Organic Pesticides on Enchytraeids (Oligochaeta) in Agroecosystems: Laboratory and Higher-Tier Tests

Römbke

Schmelz

Pelosi

2017

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta, Annelida) are often considered to be typical forestliving organisms, but they are regularly found in agroecosystems of the temperate regions of the world. Although less known than their larger relatives, the earthworms, these saprophagous organisms play similar roles in agricultural soils (but at a smaller scale), e.g., influencing soil structure and organic matter dynamics via microbial communities, and having a central place in soil food webs. Their diversity is rarely studied or often underestimated due to difficulties in distinguishing the species. New genetic techniques reveal that even in anthropogenically highly influenced soils, more than 10 species per site can be found. Because of their close contact with the soil pore water, a high ingestion rate and a thin cuticle, they often react very sensitively to a broad range of pesticides. Firstly we provide a short overview of the diversity and abundance of enchytraeid communities in agroecosystems. Afterwards, we explore the available data on enchytraeid sensitivity toward pesticides at different levels of biological organization, focusing on pesticides used in (mainly) European agroecosystems. Starting with non-standardized studies on the effects of pesticides on the sub-individual level, we compile the results of standard laboratory tests performed following OECD and ISO guidelines as well as those of higher-tier studies (i.e., semi-field and field tests). The number of comparable test data is still limited, because tests with enchytraeids are not a regulatory requirement in the European Union. While focusing on the effects of pesticides, attention is also given to their interactions with environmental stressors (e.g., climate change). In conclusion, we recommend to increase the use of enchytraeids in pesticide risk assessment because of their diversity and functional importance as well as their increasingly simplified use in (mostly standardized) tests at all levels of biological organization.

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The Edaphobase project of GBIF-Germany—A new online soil-zoological data warehouse

Cited by 59 publications

References 13 publications

How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation—lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012–2015)

How to tackle the molecular species inventory for an industrialized nation—lessons from the first phase of the German Barcode of Life initiative GBOL (2012–2015)

Soil biodiversity data: Actual and potential use in European and national legislation

Effects of Organic Pesticides on Enchytraeids (Oligochaeta) in Agroecosystems: Laboratory and Higher-Tier Tests

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