#GlobalSoilMacroFauna

Consortium

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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.

Partners

SoilBon & SoilBonFoodWebs

2022 - Present

A global network that monitors soil fauna

  • We harmonize our stantards for data interoperability
  • Website

OpenGeoHub

2022 - present

A fundation promoting open data about soil

  • OpenGeoHub helps us to map our results and to deliver them.
  • Website

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.

Lavelle & al. 2022 GEB

The first paper on the legacy database. Paper

Mathieu & al. 2022 Soil Organisms

The paper to know everything about the project! Paper

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