About
#GlobalSoilMacrofauna is a consortium of researchers working on soil macrofauna. Soil macrofauna are all invertebrates that live in the soil, with a body size larger than ~ 1.5mm. They strongly influcence soil functionning, nutrient recycling and plants' growth.
What we do
We aim at identifying the main patterns and drivers of soil macrofauna biodiversity at large scale, and understanding the links with ecosystem functionning and ecosystem services delivery.
For this, we centralize data of soil macrofauna abundance (density and biomass), taken with a standardized method called "TSBF", into a global database called MACROFAUNA.
Members in the core team.
Data Providers join us!
The MACROFAUNA database
Most soil fauna data come from transects made of five soil monoliths taken within a plot. However, the database includes data taken at different levels of sampling resolution: at layer, monolith and transect levels.
Records accros the globe
Transects
Soil monoliths data with seperate layer depths
Soil monoliths data
Join us & contribute
If you are interested in joining the group, please send an email to the contact.
To propose new dataset for the MACROFAUNA database, please use the template.
Funders & Partners
The consortium is funded by several agencies and interacts with other initiatives
Grants
sOilFauna
2022 - 2024
sDiv grant (Leipzig, Germany)
- PIs: Jérôme Mathieu & Nico Eisenhauer
- Scope: Global patterns of soil macrofauna biodiversity and primary productivity
- Project's website
FAUNASERVICES
2022 - 2024
France - Brazil joint Project funded by CESAB - Sinbiose - cNPQ - CEBA
- PIs: Jérôme Mathieu & Miguel Cooper
- Scope:Links between soil macrofauna and ecosystem services in the South American Neotropics
- Website
Co-funding
AI4SoilHealth
2022 - 2026
EU Horizon project
Scope: Developing an image based solution for rapid assessment of soil macrofauna biodiversity.
Outreach
We intend to publish a series of papers in resarch journals, and also maps of data, as well as the global database. Stay tuned, more to come!
Last news can be found on the Researchgate project's page.
Contact
The present leaders of the consortium are
- Jérôme Mathieu Main Coordinator
- Contact jerome.mathieu@upmc.fr
- Patrick Lavelle Fundator of the consortium
- George Brown Co-Fundator of the consortium
- Nico Eisenhauer sDiv project co-leader
- Miguel Cooper CESAB-Sinbiose project co-leader