A rapidly changing Earth presents a grandchallenge for humanity: We must preserveor record our cultural and ecological heri-tage, along with information about habitatscritical for biodiversity—before they are lostcompletely.
Earthworms are an important soil taxon as ecosystem engineers, providing a variety of crucial ecosystem functions and services. Little is known about their diversity and distribution at large spatial scales, despite the availability of considerable amounts of local-scale data. Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site l...