Mapping earthworm communities in Europe

Michiel Rutgers (1) , Alberto Orgiazzi (2) , Ciro Gardi (3, 2) , Jörg Römbke (4) , Stephan Jänsch (4) , Aidan M. Keith (5) , Roy Neilson (6) , Briand Boag (6) , Olaf Schmidt (7) , Archie K. Murchie (8) , Rod P. Blackshaw (9) , Guenola Peres (10) , Daniel Cluzeau (11, 12) , Muriel Guernion (11, 12) , Maria J.I. Briones (13) , Javier Rodeiro (13) , Raúl Piñeiro (13) , Darío J. Díaz Cosín (14) , J. Paulo Sousa (15) , Marjetka Suhadolc (16) , Ivan Kos (16) , Paul-Henning Krogh (17) , Jack H. Faber (18) , Christian Mulder (1) , Jaap J. Bogte (1) , Harm J. Van Wijnen (1) , Anton J. Schouten (1) , Dick De Zwart (1)

1 RIVM - National Institute for Public Health and the Environment [Bilthoven]
2 IES - JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability
3 UNIPR - Università degli studi di Parma = University of Parma
4 ECT
5 CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology [Bangor]
6 The James Hutton Institute
7 UCD - University College Dublin [Dublin]
8 Agri Food and Biosciences Institute
9 Blackshaw Research & Consultancy
10 SAS - Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation
11 ECOBIO - Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes]
12 OSUR - Station Biologique de Paimpont CNRS UMR 6653
13 University of Vigo [ Pontevedra]
14 UCM - Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid]
15 UC - University of Coimbra [Portugal]
16 Center for Soil and Environmental Science
17 Soil Fauna and Ecotoxicology Research Unit , Department of Terrestrial Ecology,
18 ALTERRA - Alterra Wageningen University & Research Centre

Existing data sets on earthworm communities in Europe were collected, harmonized, collated, modelled and depicted on a soil biodiversity map. Digital Soil Mapping was applied using multiple regressions relating relatively low density earthworm community data to soil characteristics, land use, vegetation and climate factors (covariables) with a greater spatial resolution.

Keywords: Digital Soil Mapping; Earthworm community; EcoFINDERS; Soil atlas; soil biodiversity

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology

Michiel Rutgers, Alberto Orgiazzi, Ciro Gardi, Jörg Römbke, Stephan Jänsch, et al.. Mapping earthworm communities in Europe. Applied Soil Ecology, 2016, 97, pp.98-111. ⟨10.1016/j.apsoil.2015.08.015⟩. ⟨hal-01240102⟩