Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Puschstrasse 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

Helen R. P. Phillips, Joanne M. Bennett, Rémy Beugnon, Olga Ferlian, Carlos A. Guerra, Birgitta König-Ries, Julia J. Krebs, Ulrich Brose & Nico Eisenhauer

Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Puschstrasse 4, 04103, Leipzig, Germany

Helen R. P. Phillips, Rémy Beugnon, Olga Ferlian, Julia J. Krebs & Nico Eisenhauer

Department of Environmental Science, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Helen R. P. Phillips & Erin K. Cameron

Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative and School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

Elizabeth M. Bach & Diana H. Wall

Department of Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

Elizabeth M. Bach & Diana H. Wall

Universidade Positivo, Rua Prof. Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza, 5300, Curitiba, PR, 81280-330, Brazil

Marie L. C. Bartz

Center of Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Calçada Martins de Freitas, 3000-456, Coimbra, Portugal

Marie L. C. Bartz

Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Am Kirchtor 1, 06108, Halle (Saale), Germany

Joanne M. Bennett & Carlos A. Guerra

Centre for Applied Water Science, Institute for Applied Ecology, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia

Joanne M. Bennett

Departamento de Ecología y Biología Animal, Universidad de Vigo, 36310, Vigo, Spain

Maria J. I. Briones

Embrapa Forestry, Estrada da Ribeira, km. 111, C.P. 231, Colombo, PR, 83411-000, Brazil

George G. Brown

A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 33, Moscow, 119071, Russia

Konstantin B. Gongalsky & Iurii M. Lebedev

M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Konstantin B. Gongalsky & Iurii M. Lebedev

Institute of Computer Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743, Jena, Germany

Birgitta König-Ries

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

Alberto Orgiazzi

Department of Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), 6700, Wageningen, AB, The Netherlands

Kelly S. Ramirez, Wim H. van der Putten & Madhav P. Thakur

Senckenberg Museum for Natural History Görlitz, Department of Soil Zoology, 02826, Görlitz, Germany

David J. Russell

Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106, Freiburg, Germany

Benjamin Schwarz

Institute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger-Str. 159, 07743, Jena, Germany

Ulrich Brose

CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France

Thibaud Decaëns

Sorbonne Université, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement, 75005, Paris, France

Patrick Lavelle

Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, 09200, Moulis, France

Michel Loreau

Sorbonne Université, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences of Paris (UMR 7618 IEES-Paris, CNRS, INRA, UPMC, IRD, UPEC), 4 place Jussieu, 75000, Paris, France

Jérôme Mathieu

INRA, IRD, Institut d’Ecologie et des Sciences de l’Environnement de Paris, F-75005, Paris, France

Jérôme Mathieu

Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124, Catania, Italy

Christian Mulder

Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, PO Box 8123, 6700, Wageningen, ES, The Netherlands

Wim H. van der Putten

Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195, Berlin, Germany

Matthias C. Rillig & Daniel R. Lammel

Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Franciska T. de Vries

Asian School of the Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

David A. Wardle

Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Landuse, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, Göttingen, Germany

Christian Ammer

Silviculture and Forest Ecology of the Temperate Zones, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, Göttingen, Germany

Christian Ammer

Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Büsgenweg 1, Göttingen, Germany

Sabine Ammer

Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, 3-1-3 Kan-nondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Miwa Arai

Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology, University of Nairobi, Kapenguria Road, Off Naivasha Road, P.O Box 29053, Nairobi, Kenya

Fredrick O. Ayuke

Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture, KG 541, Kigali, Rwanda

Fredrick O. Ayuke

Health & Biosecurity, CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, Australia

Geoff H. Baker

Department of Animal Science, Santa Catarina State University, Chapecó, SC, 89815-630, Brazil

Dilmar Baretta

Experimental Infrastructure Platform (EIP), Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Eberswalder Str. 84, Müncheberg, Germany

Dietmar Barkusky & Monika Joschko

Départment de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada

Robin Beauséjour & Robert L. Bradley

Geology Department, FCEFQyN, ICBIA-CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council), National University of Rio Cuarto, Ruta 36 Km, 601, Río Cuarto, Argentina

Jose C. Bedano & Anahí Domínguez

Department of Ecology, Brandenburg University of Technology, Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 6, Cottbus, Germany

Klaus Birkhofer

Eco&Sols, Univ Montpellier, IRD, INRAE, CIRAD, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France

Eric Blanchart & Michel Brossard

Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Bernd Blossey

Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, 4, Ireland

Thomas Bolger

School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

Thomas Bolger

Department of Entomology, Cornell University, 3132, Comstock Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA

James C. Burtis

EMMAH, UMR 1114, INRA, Site Agroparc, Avignon, France

Yvan Capowiez

The School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The Waite Research Institute, The University of Adelaide, PMB 1, Glen Osmond, Australia

Timothy R. Cavagnaro

Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto, 33 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Canada

Amy Choi & Sandy M. Smith

Laboratoire Écologie et Biologie des Interactions, équipe EES, UMR CNRS 7267, Université de Poitiers, 5 rue Albert Turpain, Poitiers, France

Julia Clause

UMR ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution) CNRS-Université de Rennes, Station Biologique, 35380, Paimpont, France

Daniel Cluzeau & Guénola Pérès

ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Boettgerstr. 2-14, Floersheim, Germany

Anja Coors

Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth Universtiy, Plas Gogerddan, Aberystwyth, SY24 3EE, United Kingdom

Felicity V. Crotty

School for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, Royal Agricultural University, Stroud Road, Cirencester, GL7 6JS, United Kingdom

Felicity V. Crotty

Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, 140 E Green Street, Athens, USA

Jasmine M. Crumsey

Department of Biological Sciencies, SUNY Cortland, 1215 Bowers Hall, Cortland, USA

Andrea Dávalos

Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Faculty of Biology, University Complutense of Madrid, José Antonio Novais, 12, Madrid, Spain

Darío J. Díaz Cosín, Mónica Gutiérrez López, Juan B. Jesús, Marta Novo & Dolores Trigo

Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, 370 Prospect St, New Haven, CT, USA

Annise M. Dobson

Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Argentina – INEDES (Universidad Nacional de Luján – CONICET), Luján, Argentina

Andrés Esteban Duhour

Louis Bolk Institute, Kosterijland 3-5, Bunnik, The Netherlands

Nick van Eekeren

Department of Soil Science, University of Trier, Campus II, Behringstraße 21, Trier, Germany

Christoph Emmerling

Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Instituto de Ecología y Desarrollo Sustentable, Universidad Nacional de Luján, Av. Constitución y Ruta 5, Luján, Argentina

Liliana B. Falco

Animal Biodiversity and Evolution, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37, Barcelona, Spain

Rosa Fernández

Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, 1170 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Steven J. Fonte & Tunsisa T. Hurisso

Biodiversity and Systematic Network, Institute of Ecology A.C., El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz, 91070, Mexico

Carlos Fragoso

Department of Biology, Colorado State University, 200 West Lake Street, Fort Collins, CO, USA

André L. C. Franco

Department of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies, University of the Philippines Mindanao, Tugbok District, Davao, Philippines

Abegail Fusilero

Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology, Environmental Toxicology Unit – GhEnToxLab, Ghent University, Campus Coupure, Coupure Links 653, Ghent, Belgium

Abegail Fusilero

Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS, Profsoyuznaya st. 84/32 bldg. 14, Moscow, Russia

Anna P. Geraskina

Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

Shaieste Gholami & Ehsan Sayad

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, 1201 Ceiba Street, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Grizelle González

Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skogsmarksgrand 17, 901 83, Umeå, Sweden

Michael J. Gundale

Department of Biology, University of Osijek, Cara Hadrijana 8 A, Osijek, Croatia

Branimir K. Hackenberger & Davorka K. Hackenberger

Agriculture engineering, Agroecology Postgraduate Program, Maranhão State University, Avenida Lourenço Vieira da Silva 1000, São Luis, Brazil

Luis M. Hernández & Guillaume X. Rousseau

Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Agriculture Victoria, Chiltern Valley Road, Rutherglen, Australia

Jeff R. Hirth

Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, 394 Tsubakuro, Sasaguri, Fukuoka, 811-2415, Japan

Takuo Hishi

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 520 Lafayette Road, St Paul, MN, USA

Andrew R. Holdsworth

Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Vejlsøvej 25, Aarhus, Denmark

Martin Holmstrup

Department of Biological Science, Northern Kentucky University, 1 Nunn Drive, Highland Heights, KY, USA

Kristine N. Hopfensperger

Agricultura Sociedad y Ambiente, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Av. Polígono s/n Cd. Industrial Lerma, Campeche, Campeche, Mexico

Esperanza Huerta Lwanga

Soil Physics and Land Management Group, Wageningen University & Research, Droevendaalsteeg 4, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Esperanza Huerta Lwanga & Loes van Schaik

Dept. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Box 35, Jyväskylä, Finland

Veikko Huhta

College of Agriculture, Environmental and Human Sciences, Lincoln University of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO, 65101, USA

Tunsisa T. Hurisso

School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

Basil V. Iannone III

Sustainable Development and Environmental Engineering, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Banat “King Michael the 1st of Romania” from Timisoara, Calea Aradului 119, Timisoara, Romania

Madalina Iordache

Institute for Ecosystem Research, University of Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098, Kiel, Germany

Ulrich Irmler

Tartu College, Tallinn University of Technology, Puiestee 78, Tartu, Estonia

Mari Ivask

Department of Soil and Water Systems, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive MS, 2340, Moscow, USA

Jodi L. Johnson-Maynard

Faculty of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Fukushima University, Kanayagawa 1, Fukushima, Japan

Nobuhiro Kaneko

Department of Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Matej Bel University, Tajovského 40, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

Radoslava Kanianska

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Aidan M. Keith

Land Use and Governance, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, Eberswalder Str. 84, Müncheberg, Germany

Maria L. Kernecker

UFR Sciences de la Nature, UR Gestion Durable des Sols, Université Nangui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Armand W. Koné

Faculty of Natural Resources and Marine Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, 46417-76489, Noor, Mazandaran, Iran

Yahya Kooch

Production Systems, Natural Resources Institute Finland, Survontie 9 A, Jyväskylä, Finland

Sanna T. Kukkonen

Department of Zoology, Pachhunga University College, Aizawl, Mizoram, India

H. Lalthanzara

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, 30-1 Bolshoy Boulevard, Moscow, 121205, Russia

Iurii M. Lebedev

SAS, INRAE, Institut Agro, 35042, Rennes, France

Edith Le Cadre

Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, 3190 Maile Way, St. John 102, Honolulu, USA

Noa K. Lincoln

Ecologia Aplicada, Instituto de Zoologia y Ecologia Tropical, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Los Chaguaramos, Ciudad Universitaria, Caracas, Venezuela

Danilo López-Hernández

Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University, 008C, Ag Hall, Stillwater, USA

Scott R. Loss & Shishir Paudel

UPR Systèmes de Pérennes, CIRAD, Univ Montpellier, TA B-34/02 Avenue Agropolis, Montpellier, France

Raphael Marichal

Department of Forest Ecology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Prague, Czech Republic

Radim Matula

Tochigi Prefectural Museum, 2-2 Mutsumi-cho, Utsunomiya, Japan

Yukio Minamiya

Thuenen-Institute of Biodiversity, Bundesallee 65, Braunschweig, Germany

Jan Hendrik Moos

Thuenen-Institute of Organic Farming, Trenthorst 32, Westerau, Germany

Jan Hendrik Moos

Plant Biology, Ecology and Earth Science, INDEHESA, University of Extremadura, Plasencia, Spain

Gerardo Moreno

Conservación de la Biodiversidad, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Av. Rancho, poligono 2 A, Cd. Industrial de Lerma, Campeche, Mexico

Alejandro Morón-Ríos

Department of Environmental Systems Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 602-8580, Japan

Hasegawa Motohiro

Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Division of Forest, Nature and Landscape, KU Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200E Box, 2411, Leuven, Belgium

Bart Muys

Research Institute for Nature and Forest, Gaverstraat 35, 9500, Geraardsbergen, Belgium

Johan Neirynck

School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Länggasse 85, Zollikofen, Switzerland

Lindsey Norgrove

Soil Ecosystems, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Tietotie 4, Jokioinen, Finland

Visa Nuutinen

Natural Area Consultants, 1 West Hill School Road, Richford, NY, USA

Victoria Nuzzo

Department of Zoology, PSMO College, Tirurangadi, Malappuram, Kerala, India, Malappuram, India

P. Mujeeb Rahman

CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere, CSIRO, New Illawarra Road, Lucas Heights, NSW, Australia

Johan Pansu

UMR7144 Adaptation et Diversité en Milieu Marin, Station Biologique de Roscoff, CNRS/Sorbonne Université, Place Georges Teissier, Roscoff, France

Johan Pansu

Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

Shishir Paudel

UMR SAS, INRAE, Institut Agro Agrocampus Ouest, 35000, Rennes, France

Guénola Pérès

Forest Ecology and Restoration Group, Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, 28805, Alcalá De Henares, Spain

Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho & Salvador Rebollo

Adaptations du Vivant, CNRS UMR 7179, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 4 Avenue du Petit Château, Brunoy, France

Jean-François Ponge

Department of Ecology and Ecosystem Management, Technical University of Munich, Emil-Ramann-Str. 2, 85354, Freising, Germany

Jörg Prietzel

Tembotov Institute of Ecology of Mountain Territories, Russian Academy of Sciences, I. Armand, 37a, Nalchik, Russia

Irina B. Rapoport

Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, P.O Box 80216, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid

Global Change Ecology and Evolution Research Group (GloCEE), Department of Life Sciences, University of Alcalá, 28805, Alcalá De Henares, Spain

Miguel Á. Rodríguez

Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, 1530, Cleveland Ave. N, St. Paul, USA

Alexander M. Roth

Friends of the Mississippi River, 101 E 5th St. Suite 2000, St Paul, USA

Alexander M. Roth

Biology, Biodiversity and Conservation Postgraduate Program, Federal University of Maranhão, Avenida dos Portugueses 1966, São Luis, Brazil

Guillaume X. Rousseau

Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, Kraków, Poland

Anna Rozen

College of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI, 54481, USA

Bryant Scharenbroch

The Morton Arboretum, 4100 Illinois Route 53, Lisle, IL, 60532, USA

Bryant Scharenbroch

Department Engineering for Crop Production, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), Max-Eyth-Allee 100, Potsdam, Germany

Michael Schirrmann

School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Agriculture and Food Science Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Olaf Schmidt

UCD Earth Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Olaf Schmidt

Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis, Institute of Geoecology, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19c, Braunschweig, Germany

Boris Schröder

Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, Innsbruck, Austria

Julia Seeber

Institute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Viale Druso 1, Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

Julia Seeber & Michael Steinwandter

Laboratory of Ecosystem Modelling, Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institutskaya str., 2, Pushchino, Russia

Maxim P. Shashkov

Laboratory of Computational Ecology, Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS – the Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vitkevicha str., 1, Pushchino, Russia

Maxim P. Shashkov

Department of Zoology, Khalsa College Amritsar, Amritsar, Punjab, India

Jaswinder Singh

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, USA

Katalin Szlavecz

Department of animal biology, edaphology and geology, Faculty of Sciences (Biology), University of La Laguna, La Laguna, Santa Cruz De Tenerife, Spain

José Antonio Talavera

Forest Science, Kochi University, Monobe Otsu 200, Nankoku, Japan

Jiro Tsukamoto

Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco, Nanotechnology Engineering, Multidisciplinary Academic Division of Jalpa de Méndez, Carr. Estatal libre Villahermosa-Comalcalco, Km 27 S/N, C.P. 86205 Jalpa de Méndez, Tabasco, Mexico

Sheila Uribe-López

Unit Food & Agriculture, WWF-Netherlands, Driebergseweg 10, Zeist, The Netherlands

Anne W. de Valença

Dpto. Ciencias, IS-FOOD, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Edificio Olivos – Campus Arrosadia, Pamplona, Spain

Iñigo Virto

Department of Soil, Water and Climate, University of Minnesota, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, USA

Adrian A. Wackett

Earth Innovation Institute, 98 Battery Street Suite 250, San Francisco, USA

Matthew W. Warren

University of California Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, USA

Emily R. Webster

Natural Resources & Environmental Management, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1910 East West Rd, Honolulu, USA

Nathaniel H. Wehr

Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Canada

Joann K. Whalen

The Nature Conservancy, 4245 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, USA

Michael B. Wironen

Animal Ecology, Justus Liebig University, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26, Giessen, Germany

Volkmar Wolters

Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, China

Pengfei Wu

Laboratory of terrestrial ecosystems, Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems (INEP KSC RAS), Akademgorodok, 14a, Apatity, Murmansk, Province, Russia

Irina V. Zenkova

Key Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions (Henan University), Ministry of Education, College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Weixin Zhang

Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Post Office Box 65, FI 00014, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Erin K. Cameron