Andrew Barnes

Jul 2, 2024 | cell.com | Bedford Park |Andrew Barnes

Highlights The separation of macro-level and microbial food webs is typical but has important limits. A multilayered food web conceptual model is needed because microbial food webs are nested within macro-organisms. These multilayered microbial food webs likely influence the network dynamics of macro-level food webs. A multilayered food webs model opens new avenues for empirical investigations into the complexity of ecological networks.

Jan 2, 2024 | nature.com | Anton Potapov |Andrew Barnes |Bruno Bellini |Steven L. Chown |Enrique Miranda |Jochen Drescher | +20 more

AbstractSpringtails (Collembola) inhabit soils from the Arctic to the Antarctic and comprise an estimated ~32% of all terrestrial arthropods on Earth. Here, we present a global, spatially-explicit database on springtail communities that includes 249,912 occurrences from 44,999 samples and 2,990 sites. These data are mainly raw sample-level records at the species level collected predominantly from private archives of the authors that were quality-controlled and taxonomically-standardised.