SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

Jonas J Lembrechts¹, Juha Aalto^{2

3}, Michael B Ashcroft^{4

5}, Pieter De Frenne⁶, Martin Kopecký^{7

8}, Jonathan Lenoir⁹, Miska Luoto³, Ilya M D Maclean¹⁰, Olivier Roupsard^{11

12}, Eduardo Fuentes-Lillo^{13

14

15}, Rafael A García^{13

14}, Loïc Pellissier^{16

17}, Camille Pitteloud^{16

17}, Juha M Alatalo^{18

19}, Stuart W Smith^{20

21}, Robert G Björk^{22

23}, Lena Muffler^{24

25}, Amanda Ratier Backes^{26

27}, Simone Cesarz^{27

28}, Felix Gottschall^{27

28}, Joseph Okello^{29

30}, Josef Urban^{31

32}, Roman Plichta³¹, Martin Svátek³¹, Shyam S Phartyal^{33

34}, Sonja Wipf^{35

36}, Nico Eisenhauer^{27

28}, Mihai Pușcaș³⁷, Pavel D Turtureanu³⁸, Andrej Varlagin³⁹, Romina D Dimarco⁴⁰, Alistair S Jump⁴¹, Krystal Randall⁴², Ellen Dorrepaal⁴³, Keith Larson⁴³, Josefine Walz⁴³, Luca Vitale⁴⁴, Miroslav Svoboda⁸, Rebecca Finger Higgens⁴⁵, Aud H Halbritter⁴⁶, Salvatore R Curasi⁴⁷, Ian Klupar⁴⁷, Austin Koontz⁴⁸, William D Pearse^{48

49}, Elizabeth Simpson⁴⁸, Michael Stemkovski⁴⁸, Bente Jessen Graae²⁰, Mia Vedel Sørensen²⁰, Toke T Høye⁵⁰, M Rosa Fernández Calzado⁵¹, Juan Lorite⁵¹, Michele Carbognani⁵², Marcello Tomaselli⁵², T'ai G W Forte⁵², Alessandro Petraglia⁵², Stef Haesen⁵³, Ben Somers⁵³, Koenraad Van Meerbeek⁵³, Mats P Björkman^{22

23}, Kristoffer Hylander⁵⁴, Sonia Merinero⁵⁴, Mana Gharun⁵⁵, Nina Buchmann⁵⁵, Jiri Dolezal^{7

56}, Radim Matula⁸, Andrew D Thomas⁵⁷, Joseph J Bailey⁵⁸, Dany Ghosn⁵⁹, George Kazakis⁵⁹, Miguel A de Pablo⁶⁰, Julia Kemppinen³, Pekka Niittynen³, Lisa Rew⁶¹, Tim Seipel⁶¹, Christian Larson⁶¹, James D M Speed⁶², Jonas Ardö⁶³, Nicoletta Cannone⁶⁴, Mauro Guglielmin⁶⁵, Francesco Malfasi⁶⁵, Maaike Y Bader⁶⁶, Rafaella Canessa⁶⁶, Angela Stanisci⁶⁷, Juergen Kreyling²⁴, Jonas Schmeddes²⁴, Laurenz Teuber²⁴, Valeria Aschero^{68

69}, Marek Čiliak⁷⁰, František Máliš⁷¹, Pallieter De Smedt⁶, Sanne Govaert⁶, Camille Meeussen⁶, Pieter Vangansbeke⁶, Khatuna Gigauri⁷², Andrea Lamprecht⁷³, Harald Pauli⁷³, Klaus Steinbauer⁷³, Manuela Winkler⁷³, Masahito Ueyama⁷⁴, Martin A Nuñez⁷⁵, Tudor-Mihai Ursu⁷⁶, Sylvia Haider^{26

27}, Ronja E M Wedegärtner²⁰, Marko Smiljanic⁷⁷, Mario Trouillier⁷⁷, Martin Wilmking⁷⁷, Jan Altman⁷, Josef Brůna⁷, Lucia Hederová⁷, Martin Macek⁷, Matěj Man⁷, Jan Wild⁷, Pascal Vittoz⁷⁸, Meelis Pärtel⁷⁹, Peter Barančok⁸⁰, Róbert Kanka⁸⁰, Jozef Kollár⁸⁰, Andrej Palaj⁸⁰, Agustina Barros⁶⁹, Ana C Mazzolari⁶⁹, Marijn Bauters²⁹, Pascal Boeckx²⁹, José-Luis Benito Alonso⁸¹, Shengwei Zong⁸², Valter Di Cecco⁸³, Zuzana Sitková⁸⁴, Katja Tielbörger⁸⁵, Liesbeth van den Brink⁸⁵, Robert Weigel²⁵, Jürgen Homeier²⁵, C Johan Dahlberg^{54

86}, Sergiy Medinets⁸⁷, Volodymyr Medinets⁸⁷, Hans J De Boeck¹, Miguel Portillo-Estrada¹, Lore T Verryckt¹, Ann Milbau⁸⁸, Gergana N Daskalova⁸⁹, Haydn J D Thomas⁸⁹, Isla H Myers-Smith⁸⁹, Benjamin Blonder^{90

91}, Jörg G Stephan⁹², Patrice Descombes^{16

17

93}, Florian Zellweger⁹³, Esther R Frei^{35

93}, Bernard Heinesch⁹⁴, Christopher Andrews⁹⁵, Jan Dick⁹⁵, Lukas Siebicke⁹⁶, Adrian Rocha⁹⁷, Rebecca A Senior⁹⁸, Christian Rixen³⁵, Juan J Jimenez⁹⁹, Julia Boike^{100

101}, Aníbal Pauchard^{13

14}, Thomas Scholten¹⁰², Brett Scheffers¹⁰³, David Klinges¹⁰⁴, Edmund W Basham¹⁰⁴, Jian Zhang¹⁰⁵, Zhaochen Zhang¹⁰⁵, Charly Géron^{1

106}, Fatih Fazlioglu¹⁰⁷, Onur Candan¹⁰⁷, Jhonatan Sallo Bravo¹⁰⁸, Filip Hrbacek¹⁰⁹, Kamil Laska¹⁰⁹, Edoardo Cremonese¹¹⁰, Peter Haase^{111

112}, Fernando E Moyano⁹⁶, Christian Rossi^{36

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114}, Ivan Nijs¹

Affiliations

¹ Research Group PLECO (Plants and Ecosystems), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
² Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
⁷ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
⁸ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic.
⁹ UR 'Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisées' (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France.
¹⁰ Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
¹¹ CIRAD, UMR Eco&Sols, Dakar, Senegal.
¹² Eco&Sols, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France.
¹³ Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB), Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
¹⁴ Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.
¹⁵ School of Education and Social Sciences, Adventist University of Chile, Chile.
¹⁶ Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Unit of Land Change Science, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
¹⁹ Environmental Science Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
²⁰ Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
²¹ Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
²² Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
²³ Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden.
²⁴ Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
²⁵ Plant Ecology, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
²⁶ Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
²⁷ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁸ Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁹ Isotope Bioscience Laboratory - ISOFYS, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
³⁰ Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda.
³¹ Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic.
³² Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
³³ School of Ecology and Environment Studies, Nalanda University, Rajgir, India.
³⁴ Department of Forestry and NR, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, India.
³⁵ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.
³⁶ Swiss National Park, Chastè Planta-Wildenberg, Zernez, Switzerland.
³⁷ A. Borza Botanical Garden and Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
³⁸ A. Borza Botanical Garden, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
³⁹ A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁴⁰ Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, IFAB (INTA - CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina.
⁴¹ Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
⁴² Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
⁴³ Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.
⁴⁴ CNR - Institute for Mediterranean Agricultural and Forest Systems, Ercolano (Napoli), Italy.
⁴⁵ Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.
⁵⁰ Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Rønde, Denmark.
⁵¹ Department of Botany, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
⁵² Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
⁵³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵⁴ Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵⁵ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵⁶ Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
⁵⁷ Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.
⁵⁸ Department of Geography, York St John University, York, UK.
⁵⁹ Department of Geo-information in Environmental Management, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Greece.
⁶⁰ Department of Geology, Geography and Environment, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
⁶¹ Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
⁶² Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁶³ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁶⁴ Department of Science and High Technology, Insubria University, Como, Italy.
⁶⁵ Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University, Varese, Italy.
⁶⁶ Ecological Plant Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
⁶⁷ EnvixLab, Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Termoli, Italy.
⁶⁸ Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Cuyo, Argentina.
⁶⁹ Instituto Argentino de Nivologiá, Glaciologiá y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CONICET, CCT-Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina.
⁷⁰ Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.
⁷¹ Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.
⁷² Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁷³ GLORIA Coordination, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) & Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria.
⁷⁴ Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan.
⁷⁵ Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, INIBIOMA, CONICET/Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina.
⁷⁶ Institute of Biological Research Cluj-Napoca, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
⁷⁷ Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
⁷⁸ Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷⁹ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁸⁰ Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
⁸¹ Jolube Consultor Botánico, Jaca, Spain.
⁸² Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
⁸³ Majella Seed Bank, Majella National Park, Lama dei Peligni, Italy.
⁸⁴ National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.
⁸⁵ Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁸⁶ County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁸⁷ Regional Centre for Integrated Environmental Monitoring, Odesa National I.I. Mechnikov University, Odesa, Ukraine.
⁸⁸ Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium.
⁸⁹ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁹⁰ School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
⁹¹ Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁹² Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁹³ Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁹⁴ TERRA Teaching and Research Center, Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium.
⁹⁵ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Midlothian, UK.
⁹⁶ Bioclimatology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁹⁷ Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
⁹⁸ Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
⁹⁹ ARAID Research and Development, Zaragoza, Spain.
¹⁰⁰ Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany.
¹⁰¹ Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰² Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
¹⁰³ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁰⁴ School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
¹⁰⁶ Biodiversity and Landscape, TERRA Research Centre, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium.
¹⁰⁷ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey.
¹⁰⁸ Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.
¹⁰⁹ Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
¹¹⁰ Climate Change Unit, Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley, Aosta, Italy.
¹¹¹ Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany.
¹¹² Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
¹¹³ Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹¹⁴ Research Unit Community Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

PMID: 32311220
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123

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SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

Jonas J Lembrechts et al. Glob Chang Biol. 2020 Nov.

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. 2020 Nov;26(11):6616-6629.

doi: 10.1111/gcb.15123. Epub 2020 Jun 24.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Research Group PLECO (Plants and Ecosystems), University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
² Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
³ Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
⁴ Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
⁵ Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
⁶ Forest & Nature Lab, Department of Environment, Ghent University, Melle-Gontrode, Belgium.
⁷ Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice, Czech Republic.
⁸ Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic.
⁹ UR 'Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisées' (EDYSAN, UMR 7058 CNRS-UPJV), Univ. de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France.
¹⁰ Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
¹¹ CIRAD, UMR Eco&Sols, Dakar, Senegal.
¹² Eco&Sols, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, INRAE, IRD, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France.
¹³ Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas (LIB), Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile.
¹⁴ Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad (IEB), Santiago, Chile.
¹⁵ School of Education and Social Sciences, Adventist University of Chile, Chile.
¹⁶ Landscape Ecology, Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Unit of Land Change Science, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
¹⁸ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
¹⁹ Environmental Science Center, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.
²⁰ Department of Biology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
²¹ Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
²² Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
²³ Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden.
²⁴ Experimental Plant Ecology, Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
²⁵ Plant Ecology, Albrecht-von-Haller-Institute for Plant Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany.
²⁶ Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany.
²⁷ German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁸ Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany.
²⁹ Isotope Bioscience Laboratory - ISOFYS, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium.
³⁰ Mountains of the Moon University, Fort Portal, Uganda.
³¹ Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic.
³² Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
³³ School of Ecology and Environment Studies, Nalanda University, Rajgir, India.
³⁴ Department of Forestry and NR, H.N.B. Garhwal University, Srinagar-Garhwal, India.
³⁵ WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland.
³⁶ Swiss National Park, Chastè Planta-Wildenberg, Zernez, Switzerland.
³⁷ A. Borza Botanical Garden and Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
³⁸ A. Borza Botanical Garden, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
³⁹ A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁴⁰ Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos, IFAB (INTA - CONICET), Bariloche, Argentina.
⁴¹ Biological and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK.
⁴² Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
⁴³ Climate Impacts Research Centre, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Abisko, Sweden.
⁴⁴ CNR - Institute for Mediterranean Agricultural and Forest Systems, Ercolano (Napoli), Italy.
⁴⁵ Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
⁴⁶ Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
⁴⁷ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Biology and Ecology Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA.
⁴⁹ Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK.
⁵⁰ Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre, Rønde, Denmark.
⁵¹ Department of Botany, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
⁵² Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
⁵³ Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵⁴ Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁵⁵ Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
⁵⁶ Faculty of Science, Department of Botany, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
⁵⁷ Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.
⁵⁸ Department of Geography, York St John University, York, UK.
⁵⁹ Department of Geo-information in Environmental Management, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Chania, Greece.
⁶⁰ Department of Geology, Geography and Environment, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
⁶¹ Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
⁶² Department of Natural History, NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
⁶³ Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
⁶⁴ Department of Science and High Technology, Insubria University, Como, Italy.
⁶⁵ Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Insubria University, Varese, Italy.
⁶⁶ Ecological Plant Geography, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
⁶⁷ EnvixLab, Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Termoli, Italy.
⁶⁸ Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Cuyo, Argentina.
⁶⁹ Instituto Argentino de Nivologiá, Glaciologiá y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CONICET, CCT-Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina.
⁷⁰ Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.
⁷¹ Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.
⁷² Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, Tbilisi, Georgia.
⁷³ GLORIA Coordination, Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) & Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU), Vienna, Austria.
⁷⁴ Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan.
⁷⁵ Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones, INIBIOMA, CONICET/Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Bariloche, Argentina.
⁷⁶ Institute of Biological Research Cluj-Napoca, National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
⁷⁷ Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
⁷⁸ Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁷⁹ Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
⁸⁰ Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
⁸¹ Jolube Consultor Botánico, Jaca, Spain.
⁸² Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Sciences, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
⁸³ Majella Seed Bank, Majella National Park, Lama dei Peligni, Italy.
⁸⁴ National Forest Centre, Forest Research Institute Zvolen, Zvolen, Slovakia.
⁸⁵ Plant Ecology Group, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
⁸⁶ County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland, Gothenburg, Sweden.
⁸⁷ Regional Centre for Integrated Environmental Monitoring, Odesa National I.I. Mechnikov University, Odesa, Ukraine.
⁸⁸ Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Brussels, Belgium.
⁸⁹ School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁹⁰ School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.
⁹¹ Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
⁹² Swedish Species Information Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁹³ Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.
⁹⁴ TERRA Teaching and Research Center, Faculty of Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium.
⁹⁵ UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Midlothian, UK.
⁹⁶ Bioclimatology, University of Goettingen, Göttingen, Germany.
⁹⁷ Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA.
⁹⁸ Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
⁹⁹ ARAID Research and Development, Zaragoza, Spain.
¹⁰⁰ Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Potsdam, Germany.
¹⁰¹ Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁰² Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology, Department of Geosciences, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
¹⁰³ Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁰⁴ School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
¹⁰⁵ Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.
¹⁰⁶ Biodiversity and Landscape, TERRA Research Centre, University of Liège, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, Gembloux, Belgium.
¹⁰⁷ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey.
¹⁰⁸ Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Cusco, Peru.
¹⁰⁹ Department of Geography, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
¹¹⁰ Climate Change Unit, Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley, Aosta, Italy.
¹¹¹ Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany.
¹¹² Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.
¹¹³ Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹¹⁴ Research Unit Community Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland.

PMID: 32311220
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15123

Abstract

Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated climate data represents long-term average thermal conditions at coarse spatial resolutions only. Hence, many climate-forcing factors that operate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions are overlooked. This is particularly important in relation to effects of observation height (e.g. vegetation, snow and soil characteristics) and in habitats varying in their exposure to radiation, moisture and wind (e.g. topography, radiative forcing or cold-air pooling). Since organisms living close to the ground relate more strongly to these microclimatic conditions than to free-air temperatures, microclimatic ground and near-surface data are needed to provide realistic forecasts of the fate of such organisms under anthropogenic climate change, as well as of the functioning of the ecosystems they live in. To fill this critical gap, we highlight a call for temperature time series submissions to SoilTemp, a geospatial database initiative compiling soil and near-surface temperature data from all over the world. Currently, this database contains time series from 7,538 temperature sensors from 51 countries across all key biomes. The database will pave the way toward an improved global understanding of microclimate and bridge the gap between the available climate data and the climate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions relevant to most organisms and ecosystem processes.

Keywords: climate change; database; ecosystem processes; microclimate; soil climate; species distributions; temperature; topoclimate.

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SoilTemp: A global database of near-surface temperature

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