Journal
SCIENCE
Volume 366, Issue 6464, Pages 480-+Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4851
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- sDiv [Synthesis Centre of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig] [DFG FZT 118]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [677232]
- ERC-ADV grant [323020]
- iDiv Flexpool [DFG FZT118, 34600850]
- Academy of Finland [285882]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [RGPIN-2019-05758]
- DOB Ecology
- TULIP Laboratory of Excellence [ANR-10-LABX-41]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [12-04-01538-a, 12-04-01734-a, 14-44-03666-r_center_a, 15-29-02724-ofi_m, 16-0401878-a 19-05-00245]
- Tarbiat Modares University
- Aurora Organic Dairy
- UGC(NERO) [F. 1-6/Acctt./NERO/2007-08/1485]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council [RGPIN-2017-05391]
- Slovak Research and Development Agency [APVV-0098-12]
- Science for Global Development through Wageningen University
- Norman Borlaug LEAP Programme
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation -FAPESP [12/22510-8]
- Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station
- INIA -Spanish Agency [SUM 2006-00012-00-0]
- Royal Canadian Geographical Society
- Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) [2005-S-LS-8]
- University of Hawai`i at Manoa [HAW01127H, HAW01123M]
- European Union FP7 (FunDivEurope) [265171]
- U.S. Department of the Navy, Commander Pacific Fleet [W9126G-13-2-0047]
- Science and Engineering Research Board Department of Science and Technology, New Delhi, India [SB/SO/AS-030/2013]
- Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) of the U.S. Department of Defense [RC-1542]
- Maranhao State Research Foundation (FAPEMA)
- Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic [LTT17033]
- Colorado Wheat Research Foundation
- Zone Atelier Alpes, French National Research Agency [ANR-11-BSV7020-01, ANR-09-STRA-02-01, ANR 06 BIODIV 009-01]
- Austrian Science Fund [P16027, T441]
- Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank Frankfurt am Main
- Welsh Government
- European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development [A AAB 62 03 qA731606]
- SEPAQ
- Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Finland
- Science Foundation Ireland [EEB0061]
- University of Toronto (Faculty of Forestry)
- National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Haliburton Forest and Wildlife Reserve
- NKU College of Arts and Sciences Grant
- Osterreichische Forschungsforderungsgesellschaft [837393, 837426]
- Mountain Agriculture Research Unit of the University of Innsbruck
- Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
- Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Kerala
- UNEP/GEF/TSBF-CIAT Project on Conservation and Sustainable Management of Belowground Biodiversity
- Complutense University of Madrid/European Union FP7 project BioBio [FPU UCM 613520]
- GRDC
- AWI
- LWRRDC
- DRDC
- CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council)
- FONCyT (National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion)
- Universidad Nacional de Lujan
- FONCyT [PICT 2293 (2006)]
- Fonds de recherche sur la nature et les technologies du Quebec [131894]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SCHR1000/3-1, SCHR1000/6-1, SCHR1000/6-2 (FOR 1598), WO 670/7-1, WO 670/7-2, SCHA 1719/1-2]
- CONACYT [FONDOS MIXTOS TABASCO/PROYECTO11316]
- Institute for Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago
- Dean's Scholar Program at UIC
- Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry from the Casey Tree Endowment Fund
- J. E. Weaver Competitive Grant from the Nebraska Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
- College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at DePaul University
- Elmore Hadley Award for Research in Ecology and Evolution from the UIC Dept. of Biological Sciences
- Spanish CICYT [AMB96-1161, REN2000-0783/GLO, REN2003-05553/GLO, REN2003-03989/GLO, CGL2007-60661/BOS]
- Yokohama National University
- MEXT KAKENHI [25220104]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI [25281053, 17KT0074, 25252026]
- ADEME [0775C0035]
- Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of Spain [CGL2017-86926-P]
- Syngenta Philippines
- UPSTREAM
- LTSER (Val Mazia/Matschertal)
- Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship [747607]
- National Science and Technology Base Resource Survey Project of China [2018FY100306]
- McKnight Foundation [14-168]
- Program of Fundamental Researches of Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences [AAAA-A18-118021490070-5]
- Brazilian National Council of Research CNPq
- French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
- NIH [DGE-0549245, DEB-BE-0909452 NSF1241932]
- [ERC-AdG 694368]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [T441, P16027] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- European Research Council (ERC) [323020] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17KT0074] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [747607] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [285882, 285882] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Soil organisms, including earthworms, are a key component of terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known about their diversity, their distribution, and the threats affecting them. We compiled a global dataset of sampled earthworm communities from 6928 sites in 57 countries as a basis for predicting patterns in earthworm diversity, abundance, and biomass. We found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms. However, high species dissimilarity across tropical locations may cause diversity across the entirety of the tropics to be higher than elsewhere. Climate variables were found to be more important in shaping earthworm communities than soil properties or habitat cover. These findings suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.
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