Soil BON Earthworm - Community data template

The Soil BON Earthworm consortium built a data template for everyone to use and format their data, so that it can be collated in a straightforward way. The template is an updated version of the one developed for the EUdaphobase COST Action (Tsiafouli et al. 2022). More information on Soil BON Earthworm initiative and the data templates created are available in the associated publication (insert DOI when available).

It is composed of different leaflets:

1. "Readme": this leaflet contains all column names from the next leaflet and provides the necessary information to properly fill the information needed.
2. "Template to fill with data": this leaflet is composed of several columns where the data provider can enter the information on dataset, site, methodology and taxa sampled. This leaflet is to be filled with density data, and another file should be produced for biomass data.
3. "drop down list": this leaflet is non-modifiable and contains the different lists from which values are taken for certain variables, such as soil type which follow the WRB FAO classification (IUSS Working Group WRB 2015).