A compendium of earthworm data sources and associated information from the UK and Ireland, 1891-2021

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This dataset presents a compendium of field-based earthworm data sources and associated meta-data from across the United Kingdom and Ireland (‘Worm source’). These were compiled up to 2021 and include 257 data sources, the earliest dating back to 1891. Source meta-data covers the type of quantitative earthworm data (i.e. incidence, abundance, biomass, taxa), methodological details (e.g. sampling method/s, location/s, whether sampled plots were natural or experimental, sampling year/s), and environmental information (e.g. habitat/land-use, inclusion of climate data and basic soil properties). Data sources were collected through literature searches on Web of Science and Google Scholar, as well as directly from original authors/data holders where possible. The data sources were compiled with the aim of gathering quantitative data on earthworm species and populations to develop earthworm abundance and niche models, and toward a modelling framework for earthworm impacts on soil processes. This work is part of the Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics (SOC-D) project funded by the NERC UK-SCAPE programme (Grant reference NE/R016429/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1a1000a8-4e7e-4851-8784-94c7ba3e164f

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2024-02-08
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Mason, K.E., Ashwood, F., Schmidt, O., Cosby, J., Keith, A.M. (2022). A compendium of earthworm data sources and associated information from the UK and Ireland, 1891-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1a1000a8-4e7e-4851-8784-94c7ba3e164f
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1a1000a8-4e7e-4851-8784-94c7ba3e164f
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Latitude: 60.861° to °
Longitude: -11.285° to 1.768°
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2022-05-30 (publication)
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(author, pointOfContact, custodian, publisher, owner); Forest Research (author); University College Dublin (author)
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