Abundance data from soil microarthropods (Oribatida, Acari and Collembola, Hexapoda) of alpine snowbeds in the European Alps (summer 2017)

• Main Authors: Seeber, Julia, Newesely, Christian, Steinwandter, Michael, Rief, Alexander, Körner, Christian, Tappeiner, Ulrike, Meyer, Erwin
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2021
• Subjects: Acari; Alpine soils; Anachipteria shtanchaevae; Berniniella bicarinata; Bourletiella pistilla; Bourletiella sp.; Brachychthonius berlesei; Caleremaeus monilipes; Camisia biurus; Camisia horrida; Carabodes labyrinthicus; Carabodes marginatus; Carabodes schatzi; Ceratoppia bipilis; Collembola; Conoppia palmicincta; Counting; Stereo Microscope; Damaeus clavipes; Date/Time of event; DEPTH; soil; Dissorhina ornata; Ecosystem_Processes; Elevation of event; Entomobrya lanuginosa; Eueremaeus valkanovi; Eupelops curtipilus; Eupelops plicatus; Event label; Folsomia manolachei; Folsomides sp.; Furka Pass; Uri; Switzerland; FUR-snb-1; FUR-snb-2; FUR-snb-3; FUR-snb-4; FUR-snb-5; Fuscozetes intermedius; Habitat; Heterosminthurus bilineatus; ING-snb-1; ING-snb-2; ING-snb-3; ING-snb-4; ING-snb-5; Innergschlöss; Tyrol; Antarctic and Alpine Research; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.935735; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935735

This dataset represents abundance data from soil microarthropods (Oribatida, Acari and Collembola, Hexapoda) from five alpine sites across the European Alps, sampled in summer 2017. The sites were: (1) Furka Pass, Uri, Switzerland, (2) Matsch Valley, South Tyrol, Italy, (3) Untersulzbach Valley, Salzburg, Austria, (4) Innergschlöss, Tyrol, Austria, and (5) Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria. On each site we chose 3-6 snowbeds, where litter and soil core samples were taken. Each snowbed was subdivided into three sections: top (early snowmelt), middle, and bottom (late snowmelt). The data was used to evaluate how soil animal communities are responding to life conditions across snowbeds along a west-east transect of the European Alps, and to create a reference inventory for future investigations of climate change effects on snowbed ecosystems.