Diversity of Collembola under various types of anthropogenic load on ecosystems of European part of Russia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the key role played by soil organisms in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems and provisioning of ecosystem services (Barrios 2007, Bardgett and Putten 2014), available open data on soil biodiversity are incongruously scarce (Eisenhauer 2017, Cameron 2018). This is especially true for Russia, but contrasts long traditions of soil zoological research and large volumes of data that were collected during the second half of the 20^th century for the territory of the former USSR. Last year, 41,928 georeferenced occurrences of soil-dwelling arthropods Collembola were digitised and published through GBIF.org. This work continues these activities. The article combines descriptions of three new sampling-event datasets about the various types of anthropogeni

SUBMITTER: Kuznetsova N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7648050 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature