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    Global fine-resolution data on springtail abundance and community structure
    (Springer Nature Limited, 2024-01-03) Potapov AM; Chen T-W; Striuchkova AV; Alatalo JM; Alexandre D; Arbea J; Ashton T; Ashwood F; Babenko AB; Bandyopadhyaya I; Baretta CRDM; Baretta D; Barnes AD; Bellini BC; Bendjaballah M; Berg MP; Bernava V; Bokhorst S; Bokova AI; Bolger T; Bouchard M; Brito RA; Buchori D; Castaño-Meneses G; Chauvat M; Chomel M; Chow Y; Chown SL; Classen AT; Cortet J; Čuchta P; de la Pedrosa AM; De Lima ECA; Deharveng LE; Doblas Miranda E; Drescher J; Eisenhauer N; Ellers J; Ferlian O; Ferreira SSD; Ferreira AS; Fiera C; Filser J; Franken O; Fujii S; Koudji EG; Gao M; Gendreau-Berthiaume B; Gers C; Greve M; Hamra-Kroua S; Handa IT; Hasegawa M; Heiniger C; Hishi T; Holmstrup M; Homet P; Høye TT; Ivask M; Jacques B; Janion-Scheepers C; Jochum M; Joimel S; Jorge BCS; Juceviča E; Kapinga EM; Kováč Ľ; Krab EJ; Krogh PH; Kuu A; Kuznetsova N; Lam WN; Lin D; Lindo Z; Liu AWP; Lu J-Z; Luciáñez MJ; Marx MT; Mawan A; McCary MA; Minor MA; Mitchell GI; Moreno D; Nakamori T; Negri I; Nielsen UN; Ochoa-Hueso R; Oliveira Filho LCI; Palacios-Vargas JG; Pollierer MM; Ponge J-F; Potapov MB; Querner P; Rai B; Raschmanová N; Rashid MI; Raymond-Léonard LJ; Reis AS; Ross GM; Rousseau L; Russell DJ; Saifutdinov RA; Salmon S; Santonja M; Saraeva AK; Sayer EJ; Scheunemann N; Scholz C; Seeber J; Shaw P; Shveenkova YB; Slade EM; Stebaeva S; Sterzynska M; Sun X; Susanti WI; Taskaeva AA; Tay LS; Thakur MP; Treasure AM; Tsiafouli M; Twala MN; Uvarov AV; Venier LA; Widenfalk LA; Widyastuti R; Winck B; Winkler D; Wu D; Xie Z; Yin R; Zampaulo RA; Zeppelini D; Zhang B; Zoughailech A; Ashford O; Klauberg-Filho O; Scheu S
    Springtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database on springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences from 44,999 samples and 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at the species level collected predominantly from private archives of the authors that were quality-controlled and taxonomically-standardised. Despite covering all continents, most of the sample-level data come from the European continent (82.5% of all samples) and represent four habitats: woodlands (57.4%), grasslands (14.0%), agrosystems (13.7%) and scrublands (9.0%). We included sampling by soil layers, and across seasons and years, representing temporal and spatial within-site variation in springtail communities. We also provided data use and sharing guidelines and R code to facilitate the use of the database by other researchers. This data paper describes a static version of the database at the publication date, but the database will be further expanded to include underrepresented regions and linked with trait data.
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    Micro Gondwana: soil and litter mesofauna in the subalpine and alpine of North-West Nelson, southern New Zealand
    (Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 2025-05-21) Minor MA; Robertson AW; Ashwood F
    Alpine ecosystems are vulnerable to the warming climate, yet alpine soil mesofauna remains the less studied part of NZ biodiversity. Here we present a survey of soil mesofauna communities of three mountain peaks in the Nelson-Tasman and Marlborough regions of the South Island of New Zealand. We assessed changes in abundance, diversity and trophic composition along the elevational gradient from subalpine forests to alpine herb fields (800–1600 m a.s.l.) and analysed the influence of selected environmental factors on mesofauna. Taxon richness was expected to decrease and the proportion of predators to increase in alpine habitats, as has been observed elsewhere. Sub-alpine beech forests harboured a high diversity of soil mesofauna, many of which are Gondwanan relics. There was a decline in abundance and taxonomic richness of mesofauna with increasing elevation. However, no proportional increase in predators with increasing elevation was seen–alpine mesofauna assemblages had lower predator-to-herbivore ratios than upland forests. Several interesting taxa–harpacticoid copepods, moss bugs (Hemiptera: Peloridiidae), unique-headed bugs (Hemiptera: Enicocephalomorpha), micro-spiders, mite harvestmen, Neelidae springtails and acarifauna are discussed in more detail. Baseline data such as these advance the knowledge of native fauna and provide a baseline for ecological monitoring in the alpine zone.