A global database of soil nematode abundance and functional group composition

Author notes

1. These authors contributed equally: Johan van den Hoogen, Stefan Geisen.

Affiliations

1. Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
   • Johan van den Hoogen
   • , Devin Routh
   •  & Thomas W. Crowther
2. Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Wageningen, The Netherlands
   • Stefan Geisen
   • , Gerard Korthals
   • , Rutger A. Wilschut
   •  & Wim H. van der Putten
3. Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
   • Diana H. Wall
4. Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
   • David A. Wardle
5. Animal Ecology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany
   • Walter Traunspurger
6. Soil Biology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
   • Ron G. M. de Goede
   •  & Rachel Creamer
7. Department of Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Monte L. Bean Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
   • Byron J. Adams
8. Nematode Biodiversity Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
   • Wasim Ahmad
9. Department of Entomology & Nematology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
   • Howard Ferris
10. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
    • Richard D. Bardgett
11. Institute of Zoology, Terrestrial Ecology, University of Cologne and Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences (CEPLAS), Cologne, Germany
    • Michael Bonkowski
    •  & T. A. Duong Nguyen
12. Instituto de Ciencias de la Vid y del Vino (Universidad de La Rioja, CSIC, Gobierno de La Rioja), Logroño, Spain
    • Raquel Campos-Herrera
13. Department of Phytopathology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil
    • Juvenil E. Cares
    •  & Larissa de Brito Caixeta
14. School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
    • Tancredi Caruso
15. Soil Ecology Laboratory, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
    • Xiaoyun Chen
16. Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
    • Sofia R. Costa
17. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária do Trópico Semiárido, Petrolina, Brazil
    • José Mauro da Cunha e Castro
18. Zealand Institute of Business and Technology, Slagelse, Denmark
19. Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles/CDH, Dakar, Senegal
    • Djibril Djigal
20. Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
    • Miguel Escuer
    •  & Carmen Gutiérrez
21. Crop and Soil Systems Research Group, SRUC, Edinburgh, UK
    • Bryan S. Griffiths
22. Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Görlitz, Germany
    • Karin Hohberg
23. Institute of Biology of Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russia
    • Daria Kalinkina
    • , Elizaveta Matveeva
    •  & Anna Sushchuk
24. Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
    • Paul Kardol
25. Laboratory of Functional Ecology, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    • Alan Kergunteuil
26. J. F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    • Valentyna Krashevska
    •  & Stefan Scheu
27. Institute of Biology of the Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia
    • Alexey A. Kudrin
28. Erguna Forest-Steppe Ecotone Research Station, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China
    • Qi Li
    •  & Wenju Liang
29. School of Biological Sciences, Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, UK
    • Matthew Magilton
30. Nematology Unit, Agricultural Research Council, Plant Health and Protection, Pretoria, South Africa
    • Mariette Marais
31. Department of Environment, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
    • José Antonio Rodríguez Martín
32. Laboratory of Biotechnology and Valorization of Natural Resources, Faculty of Science Agadir, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
    • El Hassan Mayad
    •  & E. Mzough
33. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
    • Christian Mulder
34. Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA
    • Peter Mullin
    • , Thomas O. Powers
    •  & Kirsten Powers
35. Ecological Sciences, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, UK
    • Roy Neilson
36. Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam
    • T. A. Duong Nguyen
37. Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
    • Uffe N. Nielsen
38. Nematode Management Group, Division of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Central Region Agricultural Research Center, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan
    • Hiroaki Okada
39. Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Spanish National Research Council, Córdoba, Spain
    • Juan Emilio Palomares Rius
40. Ecological Processes and Biodiversity, Center for Ecological Studies, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, China
    • Kaiwen Pan
41. Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
    • Vlada Peneva
42. Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
    • Loïc Pellissier
    •  & Camille Pitteloud
43. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
    • Loïc Pellissier
44. Department of Phytosanitary Defense, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil
    • Julio Carlos Pereira da Silva
45. Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    • Casper W. Quist
46. Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
    • Casper W. Quist
    •  & Wim H. van der Putten
47. Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
    • Sergio Rasmann
48. Plant Protection Products Unit, Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, Madrid, Spain
    • Sara Sánchez Moreno
49. Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
    • Stefan Scheu
50. Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Lahti, Finland
    • Heikki Setälä
51. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
    • Alexei V. Tiunov
52. Eco&Sols, University of Montpellier, CIRAD, INRA, IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, Montpellier, France
    • Jean Trap
    •  & Cecile Villenave
53. Department of Agroecology, AU-Flakkebjerg, Aarhus University, Slagelse, Denmark
    • Mette Vestergård
54. ELISOL Environnement, Congénies, France
    • Cecile Villenave
55. Plant Sciences Unit, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Merelbeke, Belgium
    • Lieven Waeyenberge
56. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, UK
    • Daniel G. Wright
    •  & Aidan M. Keith
57. Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Jiue-in Yang
58. UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
    • Olaf Schmidt
59. Research Unit of Integrated Crop Production, Centre Regional de la Recherche Agronomique d’Agadir, Agadir, Morocco
    • R. Bouharroud
60. Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Campus d’Agadir, Département de Protection des Plantes, Agadir, Morocco

Contributions

J.v.d.H., S.G., D.R. and T.W.C. designed and performed the data analyses. S.G., H.F., W.T., D.A.W., R.G.M.d.G., B.J.A., W.A., W.S.A., R.D.B., M.B., R.C.H., J.E.C., T.C., X.C., S.R.C., R.C., J.M.C.C., M.D., L.B.C., D.D., M.E., B.S.G., C.G., K.H., D.K., P.K., A.K., G.K., V.K., A.A.K., Q.L., W-J.L., M.M., M.M., J.A.R.M., E. Matveeva, E.H.M., E. Mzough, C.M., P.M., R.N., T.A.D.N., U.N.N., H.O., J.E.P.R., K.P., V.P., L.P., J.C.P.S., C.P., T.O.P., K.P., C.W.Q., S.R., S.M., S.S., H.S., A.S., A.V.T., J.T., W.H.v.dP., M.V., C.V., L.W., D.H.W., R.A.W., D.G.W., J.-I.Y., O.S. R.B., Z.F., and A.M.K. contributed data. J.v.d.H., S.G. and T.W.C. wrote the manuscript.

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Johan van den Hoogen or Stefan Geisen or Thomas W. Crowther.