Data collated from data provided by original data collectors or from data provided within published articles. The MetaData.csv provides information on each of the original data sources, including bibliographic information about the original article and information on how many sites were sampled. The SiteData.csv gives site-level variables, such as geographic coordinates, the environmental parameters as well as site-level community metrics (species richness, total abundance and total biomass). The SppOccData.csv provides the observation level data - the occurrence, abundance and/or biomass of individual species/morpho-species/life-stage at a particular site. Not every data source contained such observation level data. Metadata information about the variables in each file are provided in the files MetaData_info.csv, SiteData_info.csv and SppOccData_info.csv, respectively. All files provided use the character encoding UTF-8, and missing values are represented by "NA".

This dataset contains key characteristics about the data described in the Data Descriptor Global data on earthworm abundance, biomass, diversity and corresponding environmental properties. Contents: 1. human readable metadata summary table in CSV format 2. machine readable metadata file in JSON format ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please remove before publishing. manuscript number:SDATA-20-00920 edit url: https://scientificdata.metadata-creator.com/?id=ag5maWdtZXRhLTIzMDExMXIXCxIKU3VibWlzc2lvbhiAgICgzKucCgw Related publications: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax4851 Please remove before publishing. ----------------------------------------------------------------