Shashkov Maxim, Ivanova Natalya, Ermolov Sergey
Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS - the Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS - the Branch of Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences Pushchino Russia.
Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS, Moscow, Russia Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity RAS Moscow Russia.
Biodivers Data J. 2024 Dec 16;12:e130897. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e130897. eCollection 2024.
Earthworms are one of the most important components of temperate ecosystems and groups of soil animals globally, but data on their distribution around the world are still incomplete and uneven. Northern Eurasia is a region for which available data on earthworm distribution is extremely poor. At the same time, generations of Soviet and Russian researchers have performed extensive research and accumulated a large amount of data on the distribution of earthworms in this vast region. Most of this information was published in Russian, not digitised and, therefore, hardly accessible to researchers. Our dataset fills this gap and provides occurrence data extracted from 159 literature sources in Russian published between 1868 and 2022. The dataset contains 5,304 occurrences of 109 species and 14 subspecies. The collected data cover the territory of 27 countries.
The dataset extends the data available through GBIF.org on earthworm distribution in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. For Transcaucasia and Central Asia countries, our resource has become the main GBIF source on earthworm diversity distribution. On a global scale, our dataset contributes to filling gaps in biodiversity, which facilitates more accurate estimates of the response of biodiversity to global climate change as well as the spreading of invasive species.
蚯蚓是全球温带生态系统和土壤动物群体的重要组成部分之一，但关于它们在世界各地分布的数据仍然不完整且不均衡。欧亚大陆北部是蚯蚓分布可用数据极其匮乏的一个地区。与此同时，几代苏联和俄罗斯研究人员在这个广袤地区对蚯蚓分布进行了广泛研究并积累了大量数据。这些信息大多以俄语发表，未进行数字化处理，因此研究人员很难获取。我们的数据集填补了这一空白，提供了从1868年至2022年期间发表的159篇俄语文献来源中提取的出现数据。该数据集包含109个物种和14个亚种的5304次出现记录。收集到的数据覆盖了27个国家的领土。
该数据集扩展了通过GBIF.org可获取的关于俄罗斯、白俄罗斯和乌克兰蚯蚓分布的数据。对于外高加索和中亚国家，我们的资源已成为GBIF关于蚯蚓多样性分布的主要来源。在全球范围内，我们的数据集有助于填补生物多样性方面的空白，从而更准确地估计生物多样性对全球气候变化以及入侵物种扩散的反应。
