This DATSETNAMEreadme.txt file was generated on 2021-01-29 by Patrick Lavelle GENERAL INFORMATION 1. Title of Dataset: Soil macroinvertebrate communities worldwide 2. Author Information A. Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Patrick LAVELLE Institution: Université Paris-Sorbonne, IEES-BIODIS Address: Av 9N # 49N-19, Cali, Colombia Email: plavelle48@gmail.com B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact Information Name: Jerome MATHIEU Institution: Université Paris-Sorbonne, IEES Address: 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France Email: jerome.mathieu@upmc.fr 3. Date of data collection from 1980 to 2018 4. Geographic location of data collection 3694 sites distributed in 41 countries, from 55º S latitude to 57ºN from sea level to over 4000m in elevation, with total annual rainfall ranging from 500 and >3000 mm and mean annual temperature between 5 to 32ºC. 5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: multiple SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: None 2. Links to publications that cite or use the data: GEB 2021-0013 submitted 3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: None 4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets: None 5. Was data derived from another source? yes/no: NO 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: Lavelle, P., Mathieu , J., Spain , A., Brown, G., Fragoso, C., Lapied , E., De Aquino , A., Barois , I., Barrios, E., Barros, E., Bedano , J.C., Blanchart, E., Caulfield, M., Chagueza, Y., Dai, J., Decaëns, T., Dominguez, A., Dominguez, Y., Feijoo, A., Folgarait, P., Fonte, S., Gorosito, N., Huerta, E., Jimenez, J.J., Kelly, C., Loranger, G., Marchão, R., Marichal, R., Praxedes, C., Rodriguez, L., Rousseau, G., Rousseau, L., Sanabria, C., Suarez, J.C., Tondoh, J.E., De Valença, A., Vanek, S.J., Vasquez, J., Velasquez, E., Webster, E., Zhang, C. (submitted) . Soil macroinvertebrate communities: a worldwide assessment. Global Ecology and Biogeography. DATA & FILE OVERVIEW 1. File List: Soil macroinvertebrate communities worldwide. This file has a page called "data" with data of macroinvertebrate communities, all sampled with the standard as ISO 23611-5. (Soil Quality-Sampling of Soil Invertebrates-Part 5) protocole, identified at large taxonomic units (16 from family to orders) from 3694 sites distributed in 41 countries, from 55º S latitude to 57ºN, from sea level to over 4000m in elevation, with total annual rainfall ranging from 500 and >3000 mm and mean annual temperature between 5 to 32ºC. The page called "abbreviations" defines abbreviations of variables. 2. Relationship between files, if important: N/A 3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: N/A 4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? NO A. If yes, name of file(s) that was updated: i. Why was the file updated? ii. When was the file updated? METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Contributors have used at all sites the standard ISO 23611-5. (Soil Quality-Sampling of Soil Invertebrates-Part 5) protocole 2. Methods for processing the data: Raw data from sampling transformed into density per m2. 3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: NONE just XL. 4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: N/A 5. Environmental/experimental conditions: 41 countries, from 55º S latitude to 57ºN, from sea level to over 4000m in elevation, with total annual rainfall ranging from 500 and >3000 mm and mean annual 6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: after searching for outliers, we have either corrected or eliminated them. 7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Patrick Lavelle, 1Jérôme Mathieu1 , Alister Spain 5, George Brown2, Carlos Fragoso3, Emmanuel Lapied4 , Adriana De Aquino 6, Isabelle Barois 3, Edmundo Barrios7, Maria Eleusa Barros1, Juan Camilo Bedano 8, Eric Blanchart9, Mark Caulfield10,11,Yamileth Chagueza12, Jun Dai13, Thibaud Decaëns14, Anahi Dominguez8, Yamileth Dominguez15, Alexander Feijoo16, Patricia Folgarait17, Steven J. Fonte10, Norma Gorosito17, Esperanza Huerta30, Juan Jose Jimenez19, Courtland Kelly10, Gladys Loranger20, Robelio Marchão22, Raphael Marichal22, Catarina Praxedes23, Leonardo Rodriguez24, Guillaume Rousseau,.25, Laurent Rousseau1, Catalina Sanabria26, Juan Carlos Suarez24, Jerôme Ebagnerin Tondoh27, Ana De Valença11, Steven J. Vanek10, Joel Vasquez28, Elena Velasquez12, Emily Webster18, Chi Zhang13 1. Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences IEES, Université Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. 2. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Colombo/PR, Brazil. 3. Instituto de Ecologia A.C., Xalapa, Mexico. 4. Taxonomia Biodiversity Fund , Paris. 5. Seaforth Road, Waihi Beach, New Zealand. 6- Agrobiologia, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa), Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil 7. Plant production and protection Division, FAO, Roma, Italy. 8. Geology/Natural Sciences Department, FCEFQyN, ICBIA-CONICET . Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto, Cordoba, Argentina 9. Eco&Sols, Univ Montpellier, IRD, CIRAD, INRAe, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France 10 Dept. of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. USA 11. Farming Systems Ecology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands 12. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Palmira, Colombia 13. College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China. 14. Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, UMR 5175 CNRS,Montpellier, France. 15. Universidad del Atlántico, Barranquilla, Colombia. 16. Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia. 17. Unidad de Investigacion en Interacciones Biologicas, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires, Argentina 18. Dept. Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis CA, USA 19. Department of Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Restoration, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (ARAID-IPE-CSIC), Jaca, Spain. 20. Université des Antilles, Pointe á Pitre, Guadeloupe. 21. Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuária dos Cerrados (CPAC). Embrapa. Planaltina-DF, Brazil 22. Centre International de Recherche en Agriculture et Développement, CIRAD. Montpellier, France. 23. Museu Paranese Emilio Goeldi, Belem Para, Brazil. 24. Universidad de la Amazonia, Florencia, Caqueta, Colombia. 25. Postgraduate Program in Agroecology. Maranhão State University. Sao Luis, Maranhão, Brazil. 26. Departamento de Entomologia, Universidad del Valle, UNIVALLE, Cali, Colombia. 27. UFR des Sciences de la Nature, Université Nagui Abrogoua, Abidjan, Côte d´Ivoire. 28. Instituto Nacional de Investigación Amazónica, INIA, Iquitos, Peru. 29. Environments, Ecosystems and Biological Resources Department, French National Research Agency (ANR), Paris, France 30.Departamento de Agroecologia, ECOSUR Campeche, Mexico. DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: [data] 1. Number of variables: 24 2. Number of cases/rows: 3694 3. Variable List: SITE First three letters of the country name and numeric label COUN Country ALTcl Altitude classes inme above sea level A: 0 to 500 B: 501 to 1000 C: 1001 to 1500 D: 1501-2000 E: 2000-3001 F: 3000-4001 G > 4001 Raincl Rainfall classes in mm year-1 A: <500mm B: 501 to 1000 C: 1001-1500 D: 1501-2000 E: 2001-2500 F2501-3000 G > 3000 TEMPcl Mean annual temperatures in °C A: 0-10 B: 10.01 to 20.0 C: 20.01 to 30.0 D: > 30.1 to 40.0 LATclass Latitude classes in ° A: 15°N to 15°S B: 15.1 to 30° N or C C: 30.1 to 45 ° N and S D: 45 to 60° N and S E: >60° LONG Longitude in° COVER 10 Plant cover in 10 categories AC: Annual crops in tropical areas Act: Annual crops in temperate areas BS: bare soils DrF: Dry forests PA: Pastures SA: savanna TAC:Tree associated crops in tropical regions Tef: Temperate coniferous and decidious forests TG: Temperate grasslands TF: Tropical rainforests RT Taxonomic richness: Number of large taxonomic units found at the site EWM Earthworms density per m2 ANT Ants density per m2 TER Termites density per m2 COL Coleoptera (adults + larvae) density per m2 CHILO Chilopoda density per m2 DIPLO Diplopoda density per m2 ISO Isopoda density per m2 DIPT Diptera larvae density per m2 BLA Blattaria density per m2 HEMI Hemiptera density per m2 DERM Dermaptera density per m2 LEPI Lepidoptera (larvae) density per m2 ORTH Orthoptera density per m2 GAST Gasteropoda density per m2 ARAC Arachnida density per m2 OTH Others density per m2 DEN Total density per m2 4. Missing data codes: N/A 5. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: N/A