Abundance data from soil macro-invertebrates 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: Agolius abdominalis; Aleochara inconspicua; Alpine soils; Amara praetermissa; Araneae; Asilidae; larvae; Atheta tibialis; Auchenorrhyncha; Bembidion bipunctatum ssp. nivale; Byrrhus fasciatus; Cantharidae; Carabidae; Cecidomyiidae; Chironomidae; Clubiona diversa; Coccinellidae; Coleoptera; Counting; Curculionidae; Date/Time of event; DEPTH; soil; Diplocephalus helleri; Dolichopodidae; Drassodes sp.; Ecosystem_Processes; Elevation of event; Empididae; Enchytraeidae; Erigone cristatopalpus; Erigone dentipalpis; Erigone tenuimana; Eusphalerum anale; Event label; Furka Pass; Uri; Switzerland; FUR-snb-1; FUR-snb-4; FUR-snb-5; Gonioctena nivosa; Antarctic and Alpine Research; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.935736; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.935736

This dataset represents abundance data from soil macro-invertebrates from three 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) Mallnitz, Carinthia, Austria, and (5) Innergschlöss, Tyrol, 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.