Towards a global synthesis of Collembola knowledge – challenges and potential solutions

作者：Anton Potapov, Bruno Cavalcante Bellini, Steven L. Chown, Louis Deharveng, Frans Janssens, Ľubomír Kováč, Natalia A. Kuznetsova, Jean‐François Ponge, Mikhail Potapov, Pascal Querner, David J. Russell, Xin Sun, Feng Zhang, Matty P. Berg · 发表于：HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.25674/so92iss3pp161 · 被引用次数：123 · 研究领域：Collembola Taxonomy and Ecology Studies、Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology、Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

Collembola are among the most abundant and diverse soil microarthropods, which are found in almost all (semi)terrestrial environments and often serve as model organisms in empirical studies. Diverse data collected on the biology and ecology of Collembola over the last century are waiting for synthesis studies, while developing technologies may facilitate generation of new knowledge. Collembola research in 2020 is entering the stage of global synthesis and in this opinion paper we address the main challenges that the community of collembologists is facing on this avenue. We first discuss the present status and social context of Collembola taxonomy and the potential use of novel technologies to describe new species. We then focus on aspects of community ecology, reviewing the processes of dispersal, environmental and biotic filtering, from the spatial scale of microhabitat to the globe. We also discuss the involvement of Collembola in ecosystem processes and which proxies, such as functional traits, can be used to predict the functional roles of species. Finally, we provide recommendations on how we can improve community data collection by using standard methods and better data handling practices. We call for (1) integrating morphological descriptions with high-resolution photographs and genetic barcodes for species descriptions and developing of user friendly software and machine learning approaches to facilitate deposition of structured taxonomic knowledge on web platforms; (...