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Globally invariant metabolism but density-diversity mismatch in springtails.
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Anton M PotapovJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany. anton.potapov@biologie.uni-goettingen.de.ORCID 0000-0002-4456-1710
Carlos A GuerraGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4917-2105
Johan van den HoogenDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Anatoly BabenkoA.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-6077-0619
Bruno C BelliniDepartment of Botany and Zoology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, RN, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0001-7881-9436
Matty P BergDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Steven L ChownSecuring Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-6069-5105
Louis DeharvengISYEB, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
Ľubomír KováčDepartment of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia.ORCID 0000-0001-8194-2128
Natalia A KuznetsovaInstitute of Biology and Chemistry, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russia.
Jean-François PongeDépartement Adaptations du Vivant, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Brunoy, France.
Mikhail B PotapovInstitute of Biology and Chemistry, Moscow Pedagogical State University, Moscow, Russia.
David J RussellDepartment of Soil Zoology, Senckenberg Society for Nature Research, Görlitz, Germany.
Douglas AlexandreDepartment of Soil Science, Centre for Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Santa Catarina State University University (UDUESC- Lages), Lages, SC, Brazil.
Juha M AlataloEnvironmental Science Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
Javier I ArbeaDepartment of Sciences, CEPA Camargo, Astillero, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6122-1331
Ipsa BandyopadhyayaVisva Bharati University, Bengal, India.
Verónica BernavaAdministración de Parques Nacionales, San Antonio, Argentina.
Stef BokhorstDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-0184-1162
Thomas BolgerSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Gabriela Castaño-MenesesUnidad Multidisciplinaria de Docencia e Investigación, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus Juriquilla, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, México.ORCID 0000-0002-5405-5221
Matthieu ChauvatNormandie University-UNIROUEN, INRAE, ECODIV, Rouen, France.ORCID 0000-0002-4831-5904
Ting-Wen ChenJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Mathilde ChomelFiBL France, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Eurre, France.ORCID 0000-0001-5110-2355
Aimee T ClassenDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6741-3470
Jerome CortetCentre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France.
Peter ČuchtaBiology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Biology, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
Ana Manuela de la PedrosaDepartmento de Biología Zoología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Susana S D FerreiraDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Cristina FieraInstitute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania.
Juliane FilserFB 02, UFT, General and Theoretical Ecology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1535-6168
Oscar FrankenDepartment of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-8361-3117
Saori FujiiDepartment of Forest Entomology, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.
Essivi Gagnon KoudjiDépartement des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Meixiang GaoDepartment of Geography and Spatial Information Techniques, Ningbo University, Ningbo, China.
Benoit Gendreau-BerthiaumeDépartement des Sciences Naturelles, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Québec, Canada.
Diego F Gomez-PamiesInstituto de Biología Subtropical, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas-Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Puerto Iguazú, Argentina.
Michelle GreveDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-6229-8506
I Tanya HandaDépartement des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Charlène HeinigerHES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland.
Martin HolmstrupSection of Terrestrial Ecology, Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-8395-6582
Pablo HometInstituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Sevilla, Spain.
Mari IvaskTartu College, Tallinn University of Technology, Tartu, Estonia.
Charlene Janion-ScheepersDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5942-7912
Malte JochumGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8728-1145
Sophie JoimelUniversité Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR EcoSys, Thiverval-Grignon, France.
Bruna Claudia S JorgeQuantitative Ecology Lab, Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Edite JucevicaInstitute of Biology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.ORCID 0000-0002-0710-9450
Olga FerlianGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2536-7592
Luís Carlos Iuñes de Oliveira FilhoDepartment of Soil Science, Centre for Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC-Lages), Lages, SC, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-9010-481X
Osmar Klauberg-FilhoDepartment of Soil Science, Centre for Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC-Lages), Lages, SC, Brazil.
Dilmar BarettaDepartment of Animal Science, Santa Catarina State University (UDESC Oeste), Chapecó, SC, Brazil.
Eveline J KrabDepartment of Soil and Environment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8262-0198
Annely KuuInstitute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Chair of Soil Science, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
Estevam C A de LimaDepartamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-1680-4818
Dunmei LinKey Laboratory of the Three Gorges Reservoir Region's Eco-Environment, Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China.
Zoe LindoDepartment of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9942-7204
Amy LiuSecuring Antarctica's Environmental Future, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Jing-Zhong LuJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4051-8993
María José LuciañezDepartmento de Biología Zoología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Michael T MarxInstitute of Zoology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
Matthew A McCaryDepartment of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, USA.
Maria A MinorWildlife & Ecology Group, School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Taizo NakamoriGraduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan.
Ilaria NegriDepartment of Sustainable Crop Production (DI.PRO.VE.S.), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-5188-1408
Raúl Ochoa-HuesoDepartment of Biology, IVAGRO, University of Cádiz, Puerto Real, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1839-6926
José G Palacios-VargasLab. Ecología y Sistemática de Microartrópodos, Depto. Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, México.ORCID 0000-0001-9097-6813
Melanie M PolliererJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1498-2362
Pascal QuernerNatural History Museum Vienna, 1. Zoology, Vienna, Austria.
Natália RaschmanováDepartment of Zoology, Institute of Biology and Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice, Slovakia.
Muhammad Imtiaz RashidCenter of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Laura J Raymond-LéonardDépartement des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-7324-7843
Laurent RousseauDépartement des Sciences Biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Ruslan A SaifutdinovA.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-8878-3630
Sandrine SalmonUMR 7179 MECADEV-AVIV department, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Brunoy, France.
Emma J SayerLancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3322-4487
Nicole ScheunemannJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Cornelia ScholzDepartment of Integrated Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Julia SeeberInstitute for Alpine Environment, Eurac Research, Bozen, Italy.
Yulia B ShveenkovaState Nature Reserve "Privolzhskaya Lesostep", Penza, Russia.
Sophya K StebaevaA.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Maria SterzynskaDepartment of Systematics, Zoogeography and Ecology of Invertebrates, Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9712-4285
Xin SunKey Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3988-7847
Winda I SusantiJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Anastasia A TaskaevaInstitute of Biology, Komi Science Centre, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-4519-8458
Madhav P ThakurInstitute of Ecology & Evolution, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-9426-1313
Maria A TsiafouliDepartment of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0203-8347
Matthew S TurnbullUnaffiliated, Edmonton, Canada.
Mthokozisi N TwalaDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-6499-1892
Alexei V UvarovA.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Lisa A VenierCanadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, Canada.
Lina A WidenfalkDepartment of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Bruna R WinckQuantitative Ecology Lab, Department of Ecology, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Daniel WinklerInstitute of Wildlife Management and Wildlife Biology, University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0002-6008-0562
Donghui WuKey laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China.
Zhijing XieKey laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130102, China.
Rui YinCommunity Department, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Halle, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4580-1317
Douglas ZeppeliniDepartment of Biology, Paraiba State University, Campina Grande, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0002-9026-1129
Thomas W CrowtherDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5674-8913
Nico EisenhauerGerman Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0371-6720
Stefan ScheuJohann Friedrich Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-4350-9520
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Abstract
Soil life supports the functioning and biodiversity of terrestrial ecosystems. Springtails (Collembola) are among the most abundant soil arthropods regulating soil fertility and flow of energy through above- and belowground food webs. However, the global distribution of springtail diversity and density, and how these relate to energy fluxes remains unknown. Here, using a global dataset representing 2470 sites, we estimate the total soil springtail biomass at 27.5 megatons carbon, which is threefold higher than wild terrestrial vertebrates, and record peak densities up to 2 million individuals per square meter in the tundra. Despite a 20-fold biomass difference between the tundra and the tropics, springtail energy use (community metabolism) remains similar across the latitudinal gradient, owing to the changes in temperature with latitude. Neither springtail density nor community metabolism is predicted by local species richness, which is high in the tropics, but comparably high in some temperate forests and even tundra. Changes in springtail activity may emerge from latitudinal gradients in temperature, predation and resource limitation in soil communities. Contrasting relationships of biomass, diversity and activity of springtail communities with temperature suggest that climate warming will alter fundamental soil biodiversity metrics in different directions, potentially restructuring terrestrial food webs and affecting soil functioning.
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