Melanie M. Pollierer

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.

Jun 15, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Melanie M. Pollierer |Jochen Drescher |Anton Potapov |Amanda Mawan

DISCUSSION Here, for the first time, we quantitatively explored energy fluxes of canopy arthropod communities across tropical rainforest transformation systems. Conversion of rainforest into plantations drastically altered abundance, biomass and trophic structure of canopy arthropods, resulting not only in substantially decreased energy fluxes, but also in shifts in the relative importance of ecological functions such as algae-microbivory, herbivory and predation.

Feb 7, 2023 | nature.com | Anton Potapov |Carlos Guerra |Bruno Bellini |Steven L. Chown |Stef Bokhorst |Mathilde Chomel | +34 more

AbstractSoil 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.