Biodiversity Exploratories - Diversity of Enchytraeidae and their functions (BE-DEF)

Land use affects belowground communities with unknown consequences for essential ecosystem processes. This project will investigate temporal and spatial dynamics of grassland communities of Enchytraeidae (Annelida) using metabarcoding of eDNA from past and present sampling campaigns. With proteomics and compound-specific stable isotopes, we analyse the impact of land use on functional diversity in Enchytraeidae communities and therefore soil functions.

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Data and Resources

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Additional Info

Field Value
Geographic coverage
Geographic description Germany (Schorfheide-Chorin, Hainich-Dün, Schwäbische Alb)
Temporal coverage
Time period
Begin: September 1, 2026
End: March 31, 2027
Taxonomic coverage
Family Enchytraeidae
Other info
Last Updated April 2, 2026, 06:45 (UTC)
Created April 2, 2026, 06:45 (UTC)

Responsible parties

Creator and point of contact
Name Nicole Scheunemann
Organization affiliations
SMNG - Soil Zoology

Am Museum 1
02826 Görlitz
Germany
Website:https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/museum-of-natural-history-goerlitz/abt-bodenzoologie/

Creator
Name Ina Schaefer
Organization affiliations
SBiK-F - Functional Environmental Genomics

Georg-Voigt-Straße 14-16
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Website:https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/sbik-f/functional-environmental-genomics/

Creator
Name Miklós Bálint
Organization affiliations
SBiK-F - Functional Environmental Genomics

Georg-Voigt-Straße 14-16
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Website:https://www.senckenberg.de/en/institutes/sbik-f/functional-environmental-genomics/

Research data management planning

Types of data that will be / are / were created during the project Numeric (spreadsheet, measurements, etc.) , Taxonomic data , Molecular Sequence Data
Estimated volume of created data Cannot estimate
Data will be stored at (long-term archived) Edaphobase

Link to this dataset:

https://dataportal.senckenberg.de/dataset/d3e98b6b-69e3-4bd2-92d0-4d9b97fe78ee